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Timeline of Nantucket

The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.

Contents

17th century

  • 1621 – Island granted to Plymouth Company of London.
  • 1641 – Island bought by Thomas Mayhew.
  • 1659
  • Island sold to Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Thomas Macy, William Pike, John Swayne, and Richard Swayne.
  • Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Land established.
  • 1660 – Island becomes part of the Province of New York.
  • 1661 – Settlers arrive from Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts.
  • 1665 – Maddequet Ditch (canal) dug.
  • 1671 – Town incorporated.
  • 1672 – Town relocated to Wescoe from Madaket.
  • 1673 – Town named "Sherburne."
  • 1683 – Island becomes part of Dukes County, Province of New York.
  • 1686 – Jethro Coffin house built.
  • 1692 – Island becomes part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • 1695 – Nantucket County established.

    • 18th century

  • 1712 – Sperm whaling begins.
  • 1713 – Tuckernuck Island becomes part of Nantucket County.
  • 1732 – Quaker meeting house built.
  • 1746 – Lighthouse and East Mill constructed.
  • 1774 – Population: 4,545.
  • 1775 – Nantucket tentatively states their neutrality during the American Revolutionary War.
  • 1779 – April: British loyalists raid island.
  • 1795 – Town of Sherburne renamed "Nantucket."

    • 19th century

  • 1810
  • Second Congregational Meeting House incorporated.
  • Population: 6,807.
  • 1814 – Nantucket declares neutrality in the US-British War of 1812.
  • 1816 – May: Nantucket Gazette newspaper begins publication.
  • 1817 – Fragment Society formed.
  • 1820
  • Nantucket Mechanics' Social Library Society founded.
  • Population: 7,266.
  • 1821 – The Inquirer newspaper begins publication.
  • 1823
  • Columbian Library Society founded.
  • United Methodist Church built.
  • 1827 – United Library Association and Lancasterian school founded.
  • 1834 – Nantucket Athenaeum incorporated.
  • 1835
  • African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated.
  • Silk Factory in business.
  • 1836 – Ladies' Howard Society formed.
  • 1839 – Trinity Church built.
  • 1840 – First Baptist Church built.
  • 1846 – Fire.
  • 1848 – Atlantic House hotel in business in Siasconset.
  • 1854 – Lightship Nantucket and Town Library established.
  • 1855 - Death of Dorcas Honorable, Nantucket's last Native American Wampanoag Indian.
  • 1856
  • Nantucket Agricultural Society founded.
  • Lighthouse rebuilt.
  • 1864 – Josiah Freeman photography studio in business.
  • 1866 – Union Benevolent Society founded.
  • 1873 – Nantucket Relief Association founded.
  • 1875 – Civil War monument erected.
  • 1877 – Sherburne Lyceum organized.
  • 1881 – Nantucket Railroad built.
  • 1883 – Siasconset Union Chapel, Nantucket Hotel, Surf-Side Hotel and Springfield Hotel built.
  • 1886
  • Electric telegraph installed.
  • New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Company formed.
  • Wyer's Art Store in business (approximate date).
  • 1892 – Point Breeze Hotel in business.
  • 1894 – Nantucket Historical Association founded.
  • 1895 – Goldenrod Literary and Debating Society founded.
  • 1897 – Church of St. Mary-Our Lady of the Isle built.

    • 20th century

  • 1901 – Brant Point Light rebuilt.
  • 1902 – Maria Mitchell Association founded.
  • 1908 – Maria Mitchell Observatory built.
  • 1910 – Population: 2,962 (county).
  • 1923 – Sankaty Head Golf Club opens.
  • 1925 – Nobska (steamship) begins operating in region.
  • 1930 – Whaling Museum opens.
  • 1940 – Straight Wharf Theatre established.
  • 1945 – Murray's Toggery Shop in business.
  • 1956 – July 25: SS Andrea Doria wrecked offshore.
  • 1966 – Nantucket Historic District established.
  • 1970 – Population: 3,774.
  • 1972 – Hy-Line ferry begins operating.
  • 1974 – Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge established (approximate date).
  • 1975 – Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge established.
  • 1976 – December 15: MV Argo Merchant wrecked offshore.
  • 1990 – Population: 6,012.
  • 1995 – Nantucket Regional Transit Authority begins operating.
  • 1997 – Bill Delahunt becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 10th congressional district.
  • 1999
  • October 31: Airplane crash near island.
  • African Meeting House restored.

    • 21st century

  • 2001 – Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound organized.
  • 2010
  • Cape Wind (wind farm) development approved.
  • Population: 10,172.
  • 2011 – William R. Keating becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 10th congressional district.

    • References

    Timeline of Nantucket Wikipedia
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