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'Nantucket' is an island 30 miles (48.3 km) south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of 'Nantucket, Massachusetts' and the coextensive 'Nantucket County', which cover all three islands. The region of Surfside on Nantucket is the southernmost settlement in Massachusetts. Siasconset, referred to as 'Sconset, is the closest point in the US to Portugal and Spain.
Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony. The population of the island soars from approximately 10,000 to 50,000 during the summer months, due to tourists and summer residents. According to Forbes Magazine, in 2006, Nantucket had the highest median property value of any Massachusetts zip code.
The National Park Service has designated the entire island as a National Historic District, paying particular note to the settlements of Nantucket and Siasconset. The island features one of the highest concentration of pre-Civil War structures in the United States.
Also nicknamed "The Grey Lady", Nantucket takes its name from a word in an Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England, originally spelled variously as natocke, nantican, and nautican. The meaning of the term is uncertain, though it may have meant "in the midst of waters."[1]
The island's beginnings in western history can possibly be traced to its conjectured sighting by Norsemen in the 11th century. But it was not until 1602 that Captain Bartholomew Gosnold of Falmouth, England sailed his bark ''Concord'' past the bluffs of Siasconet and really put Nantucket on the map. The island's original inhabitants, the Wampanoag Indians, lived undisturbed until 1641 when the island was deeded by the English (the authorities in control of all land from the coast of Maine to New York) to Thomas Mayhew and his son, merchants of Watertown and Martha's Vineyard. Nantucket was part of Dukes County, New York until 1691, when it was transferred to the newly formed Province of Massachusetts Bay and split off to form Nantucket County. The entire area of the New York county had been purchased by Thomas Mayhew Sr. of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1641, buying out competing land claims. The earliest English settlement in the area began on neighboring island Martha's Vineyard.
As European began to settle the area around Cape Cod, the island became a place of refuge for regional Indians, as Nantucket was not yet discovered by white men. The growing population of Native Americans welcomed seasonal groups of Indians who traveled to the island to fish and later harvest whales that washed up on shore.
The history of Nantucket 's settlement by the English did not began in earnest until 1659, when Thomas Mayhew sold his interest to the "nine original porchasers": Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne and William Pike-"For the sum of thirty Pounds...and also two beaver hats, one for myself, and one for my wife."
At this time, the true demise of the island's Indian population began. This English presence drastically changed the healthy Indian population, and over the next
Nantucket was formerly the world's leading whaling port (and still serves as home port for a small fishing industry). Herman Melville comments on Nantucket's whaling dominance in ''Moby Dick'', Chapter 14: "Two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires."
By the Civil War, whaling was in decline and the island suffered great economic hardships, worsened by the 1846 "Great Fire" that, fueled by whale oil and lumber, devastated the main town, burning some 36 acres. It left hundreds homeless and poverty stricken, and many people left.
As a result the island depopulated and was left under-developed and isolated until the mid-20th century. The isolation kept many of the pre-Civil War buildings intact and by the 1950s, enterprising developers began buying up large sections of the island and restoring them to create an upmarket destination for the wealthy in the Northeastern United States. This highly controlled development can be compared to neighboring Martha's Vineyard, whose development served as a model for what the developers of Nantucket were trying to avoid.
On July 25, 1956, 51 people were killed in the collision of the Italian ocean liner SS ''Andrea Doria'' with the SS ''Stockholm'' in heavy fog 45 miles south of Nantucket.
In 1977, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard unsuccessfully attempted to secede from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The secession vote was sparked by a proposed change to the Massachusetts Constitution, which reduced the islands' representation in the Massachusetts General Court.
On October 31, 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990, traveling from New York City to Cairo, crashed off the coast of Nantucket, killing all 217 on board.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nantucket County has a total area of 786 km² (303.5 mi²), 84.25% of which is water. The area of Nantucket Island proper is 123.8 km² (47.8 mi²). The triangular region of ocean between Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod, is Nantucket Sound. The highest point on the island is Folger Hill which stands 109 feet above sea level. Altar Rock is a close second at a height of 108 feet above sea level.
The entire island, as well as the adjoining islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, comprise both the Town of Nantucket and the County of Nantucket. The main settlement, also called Nantucket, is located at the western end of Nantucket Harbor, where it opens into Nantucket Sound. Key localities on the island include Madaket, Surfside, Polpis, Wauwinet, Miacomet and Siasconset (often abbreviated as 'Sconset).
:''There is also a census-designated place called Nantucket.''
As of the census2 of 2000, there were 9,520 people, 3,699 households, and 2,104 families residing in Nantucket. The population density was 76.9/km² (199.1/mi²). There were 9,210 housing units at an average density of 74.4/km² (192.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 87.85% White, 8.29% African American, 0.64% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.01% Native American, 1.60% from other races, and 1.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.23% of the population. 19.9% were of Irish, 17.1% English, 7.2% Italian, 6.1% Portuguese, 6.0% German and 5.1% French ancestry according to Census 2000. 92.6% spoke English, 4.1% Spanish and 1.6% French as their first language.
There were 3,699 households out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.1% were non-families. 29.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the town the population was spread out with 19.2% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 40.4% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% at 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 105.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.0 males.
The median income for a household for year-round residents in the town is $55,522, and the median income for a family was $66,786. Males had a median income of $41,116 versus $31,608 for females. The per capita income for the town was $31,314. About 3.0% of families and 7.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.3% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over.
The Nantucket school system has approximately 1,200 students, about 400 of which are in the high school.
Nantucket is served by Nantucket Memorial Airport, a three-runway airport on the south side of the island. The airport is one of the busiest in the Commonwealth and often logs more take-offs and landings on a pleasant summer day than Boston's Logan airport. This is due in part to the large number of private/corporate planes used by wealthy summer inhabitants, and in part to the 10-seat Cessna 402s used by several commercial air carriers to serve the island community.
Nantucket is served by Nantucket Public Schools.
Schools include:
★ Nantucket Elementary School
★ Cyrus Peirce Middle School
★ Nantucket High School
★ Nantucket Community School
★ 'Nantucket Regional Transit Authority (NRTA)' - Seasonal Island-wide shuttle services that goes to many destinations including Surfside Beach, Sconset and the Airport.
★ Abiah Folger, Benjamin Franklin's mother, was born on Nantucket. Her birthsite is marked by a plaque and is known to locals as "The Bench." In 2002 Nantucket High School seniors staged a celebration of her birth at the site - a tradition which has continued every year
★ Maria Mitchell, native of Nantucket, first woman astronomer and Vassar professor of astronomy is buried in Prospect Hill.
★ Cyrus Peirce, first principal of Nantucket High School and later first president of what is now Framingham State College, married Nantucket native, Harriet Coffin. They are both buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Cyrus Peirce Middle School is named for him.
★ Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach, has a house out in 'Sconset, and a boat in the harbor.
★ Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford have a house on the island.
★ Teresa Heinz and John Kerry own a summer residence on Brant Point.
★ Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, as shown in the television series Rich Girls
★ Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco, lived on the island.
★ Frank Lorenzo, aviation pioneer, is a neighbor of Kerry '04 and Obama '08 financier, Louis Sussman on the north shore of the island.
★ Chris Matthews, NBC correspondent, has purchased a home on the island.
★ Russell Morash, PBS television producer of Julia Child shows, This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, and Victory Garden, etc. has a home here.[1]
★ Tim Russert, NBC correspondent, has purchased a home on the island.
★ Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire and Clinton antagonist, visits his small villa seasonally.
★ Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara have a place right on Children's Beach.
★ Jack Welch has an estate on the east side of the island near 'Sconset.
★ The television series ''Wings'' was based in Nantucket.
★ In "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife", the tenth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, the story upon which Marge is writing occurs in the island of Nantucket, even though she didn't know it was an island at all.
★ In NBC's Heroes, Nathan Petrelli sent his wife and two children to the island of Nantucket to escape the foretold explosion.
★ This Old House devoted most of the 1996 season to a Nantucket house renovation.
★ The 1986 Warner Brothers film ''One Crazy Summer'', was mostly filmed and took place on the island.
★ The 1996 Columbia Pictures movie ''To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'' was filmed and took place on Nantucket.
★ Nantucket is home to the mythopoeic "Man from Nantucket" made famous in the opening line of countless limericks (some of which are vulgar).
★ In Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'', the protagonist is from Nantucket.
★ One of Robert Lowell's most famous early poems, "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," with rich allusions to whaling and death at sea, is set here.
★ One of the most famous lines from Dylan Thomas's play Under Milk Wood mentions Nantucket; "FIRST DROWNED: I lost my step in Nantucket".
★ Nathaniel Philbrick's book '' describes the sinking of the ''Whaleship Essex''.
★ In Herman Melville's novel ''Moby-Dick'', Nantucket is the port town of departure for Ahab's whaling ship, the ''Pequod''.
★ In the ''Island in the Sea of Time'' trilogy, Nantucket gets sent back in time 3,000 years and ends up as the capital of the world-spanning ''Republic of Nantucket''.
★ In the Billy Joel song ''Downeaster 'Alexa' (1989) Nantucket is mentioned.
★ Bond, C. Lawrence, ''Native Names of New England Towns and Villages'', privately published by C. Lawrence Bond, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1991.
★ Philbrick, Nathaniel, ''In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex'', Penguin, NY, NY, 2000.
★ Brant Point Light
★ Mayhew Folger
★ Folgers Coffee
★ ''The Inquirer and Mirror'' (main weekly newspaper)
★ ''Nantucket Independent'' (other weekly newspaper)
★ Rowland Hussey Macy
★ Maria Mitchell
★ Moby Dick
★ Mary Morrill
★ Lucretia Mott
★ Nantucket Reds
★ Nantucket Sound
★ Wampanoag
★ Charles F. Winslow
★ Martha's Vineyard
1. Huden, John C. (1962). ''Indian Place Names of New England''. New York: Museum of the American Indian. Cited in: Bright, William (2004). ''Native American Place Names in the United States''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pg. 312
★
★ Nantucket on Google Maps
★ Town of Nantucket
★ Nantucket library
★ Nantucket Regional Transit Authority
★ Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce
★ ''Nantucket.net'', the local ISP and web portal
★ Nantucket Film Festival
★ ''The Nantucket Independent'', the weekly newspaper
★ ''Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror'', the local newspaper
★ Fabrikant, Geraldine, "Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New", ''New York Times'', June 5, 2005
★ ''Yesterday's Island'', a local magazine
★ Nantucket Historical Association
★ Prospect Hill Cemetery
★ A Brief History of Nantucket
★ Listing for Nantucket County and for the Nantucket Historic District, in the National Register of Historic Places
★ Nantucket County, Massachusetts Genealogy and History
★ Map of cities and towns of Massachusetts
'Nantucket' is an island 30 miles (48.3 km) south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of 'Nantucket, Massachusetts' and the coextensive 'Nantucket County', which cover all three islands. The region of Surfside on Nantucket is the southernmost settlement in Massachusetts. Siasconset, referred to as 'Sconset, is the closest point in the US to Portugal and Spain.
Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony. The population of the island soars from approximately 10,000 to 50,000 during the summer months, due to tourists and summer residents. According to Forbes Magazine, in 2006, Nantucket had the highest median property value of any Massachusetts zip code.
The National Park Service has designated the entire island as a National Historic District, paying particular note to the settlements of Nantucket and Siasconset. The island features one of the highest concentration of pre-Civil War structures in the United States.
Origin of the name
Also nicknamed "The Grey Lady", Nantucket takes its name from a word in an Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England, originally spelled variously as natocke, nantican, and nautican. The meaning of the term is uncertain, though it may have meant "in the midst of waters."[1]
History
1870s street scene on Nantucket.
The island's beginnings in western history can possibly be traced to its conjectured sighting by Norsemen in the 11th century. But it was not until 1602 that Captain Bartholomew Gosnold of Falmouth, England sailed his bark ''Concord'' past the bluffs of Siasconet and really put Nantucket on the map. The island's original inhabitants, the Wampanoag Indians, lived undisturbed until 1641 when the island was deeded by the English (the authorities in control of all land from the coast of Maine to New York) to Thomas Mayhew and his son, merchants of Watertown and Martha's Vineyard. Nantucket was part of Dukes County, New York until 1691, when it was transferred to the newly formed Province of Massachusetts Bay and split off to form Nantucket County. The entire area of the New York county had been purchased by Thomas Mayhew Sr. of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1641, buying out competing land claims. The earliest English settlement in the area began on neighboring island Martha's Vineyard.
As European began to settle the area around Cape Cod, the island became a place of refuge for regional Indians, as Nantucket was not yet discovered by white men. The growing population of Native Americans welcomed seasonal groups of Indians who traveled to the island to fish and later harvest whales that washed up on shore.
The history of Nantucket 's settlement by the English did not began in earnest until 1659, when Thomas Mayhew sold his interest to the "nine original porchasers": Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne and William Pike-"For the sum of thirty Pounds...and also two beaver hats, one for myself, and one for my wife."
At this time, the true demise of the island's Indian population began. This English presence drastically changed the healthy Indian population, and over the next
Nantucket was formerly the world's leading whaling port (and still serves as home port for a small fishing industry). Herman Melville comments on Nantucket's whaling dominance in ''Moby Dick'', Chapter 14: "Two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires."
Whale weathervane atop the Nantucket Historical Association Whaling Museum
By the Civil War, whaling was in decline and the island suffered great economic hardships, worsened by the 1846 "Great Fire" that, fueled by whale oil and lumber, devastated the main town, burning some 36 acres. It left hundreds homeless and poverty stricken, and many people left.
As a result the island depopulated and was left under-developed and isolated until the mid-20th century. The isolation kept many of the pre-Civil War buildings intact and by the 1950s, enterprising developers began buying up large sections of the island and restoring them to create an upmarket destination for the wealthy in the Northeastern United States. This highly controlled development can be compared to neighboring Martha's Vineyard, whose development served as a model for what the developers of Nantucket were trying to avoid.
On July 25, 1956, 51 people were killed in the collision of the Italian ocean liner SS ''Andrea Doria'' with the SS ''Stockholm'' in heavy fog 45 miles south of Nantucket.
In 1977, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard unsuccessfully attempted to secede from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The secession vote was sparked by a proposed change to the Massachusetts Constitution, which reduced the islands' representation in the Massachusetts General Court.
On October 31, 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990, traveling from New York City to Cairo, crashed off the coast of Nantucket, killing all 217 on board.
Geography
Satellite Image of Nantucket Island
The entire island, as well as the adjoining islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, comprise both the Town of Nantucket and the County of Nantucket. The main settlement, also called Nantucket, is located at the western end of Nantucket Harbor, where it opens into Nantucket Sound. Key localities on the island include Madaket, Surfside, Polpis, Wauwinet, Miacomet and Siasconset (often abbreviated as 'Sconset).
Demographics
The cobblestone Main Street in historic Downtown Nantucket
:''There is also a census-designated place called Nantucket.''
As of the census2 of 2000, there were 9,520 people, 3,699 households, and 2,104 families residing in Nantucket. The population density was 76.9/km² (199.1/mi²). There were 9,210 housing units at an average density of 74.4/km² (192.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 87.85% White, 8.29% African American, 0.64% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.01% Native American, 1.60% from other races, and 1.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.23% of the population. 19.9% were of Irish, 17.1% English, 7.2% Italian, 6.1% Portuguese, 6.0% German and 5.1% French ancestry according to Census 2000. 92.6% spoke English, 4.1% Spanish and 1.6% French as their first language.
There were 3,699 households out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.1% were non-families. 29.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the town the population was spread out with 19.2% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 40.4% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% at 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 105.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.0 males.
The median income for a household for year-round residents in the town is $55,522, and the median income for a family was $66,786. Males had a median income of $41,116 versus $31,608 for females. The per capita income for the town was $31,314. About 3.0% of families and 7.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.3% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over.
The Nantucket school system has approximately 1,200 students, about 400 of which are in the high school.
Nantucket is served by Nantucket Memorial Airport, a three-runway airport on the south side of the island. The airport is one of the busiest in the Commonwealth and often logs more take-offs and landings on a pleasant summer day than Boston's Logan airport. This is due in part to the large number of private/corporate planes used by wealthy summer inhabitants, and in part to the 10-seat Cessna 402s used by several commercial air carriers to serve the island community.
Government
Education
Nantucket is served by Nantucket Public Schools.
Schools include:
★ Nantucket Elementary School
★ Cyrus Peirce Middle School
★ Nantucket High School
★ Nantucket Community School
Transportation
★ 'Nantucket Regional Transit Authority (NRTA)' - Seasonal Island-wide shuttle services that goes to many destinations including Surfside Beach, Sconset and the Airport.
Notable residents
17th, 18th & 19th Centuries
★ Abiah Folger, Benjamin Franklin's mother, was born on Nantucket. Her birthsite is marked by a plaque and is known to locals as "The Bench." In 2002 Nantucket High School seniors staged a celebration of her birth at the site - a tradition which has continued every year
★ Maria Mitchell, native of Nantucket, first woman astronomer and Vassar professor of astronomy is buried in Prospect Hill.
★ Cyrus Peirce, first principal of Nantucket High School and later first president of what is now Framingham State College, married Nantucket native, Harriet Coffin. They are both buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Cyrus Peirce Middle School is named for him.
20th & 21st Centuries
★ Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach, has a house out in 'Sconset, and a boat in the harbor.
★ Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford have a house on the island.
★ Teresa Heinz and John Kerry own a summer residence on Brant Point.
★ Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, as shown in the television series Rich Girls
★ Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco, lived on the island.
★ Frank Lorenzo, aviation pioneer, is a neighbor of Kerry '04 and Obama '08 financier, Louis Sussman on the north shore of the island.
★ Chris Matthews, NBC correspondent, has purchased a home on the island.
★ Russell Morash, PBS television producer of Julia Child shows, This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, and Victory Garden, etc. has a home here.[1]
★ Tim Russert, NBC correspondent, has purchased a home on the island.
★ Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire and Clinton antagonist, visits his small villa seasonally.
★ Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara have a place right on Children's Beach.
★ Jack Welch has an estate on the east side of the island near 'Sconset.
References in popular culture
Television
★ The television series ''Wings'' was based in Nantucket.
★ In "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife", the tenth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, the story upon which Marge is writing occurs in the island of Nantucket, even though she didn't know it was an island at all.
★ In NBC's Heroes, Nathan Petrelli sent his wife and two children to the island of Nantucket to escape the foretold explosion.
★ This Old House devoted most of the 1996 season to a Nantucket house renovation.
Film
★ The 1986 Warner Brothers film ''One Crazy Summer'', was mostly filmed and took place on the island.
★ The 1996 Columbia Pictures movie ''To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday'' was filmed and took place on Nantucket.
Literature
★ Nantucket is home to the mythopoeic "Man from Nantucket" made famous in the opening line of countless limericks (some of which are vulgar).
★ In Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'', the protagonist is from Nantucket.
★ One of Robert Lowell's most famous early poems, "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," with rich allusions to whaling and death at sea, is set here.
★ One of the most famous lines from Dylan Thomas's play Under Milk Wood mentions Nantucket; "FIRST DROWNED: I lost my step in Nantucket".
★ Nathaniel Philbrick's book '' describes the sinking of the ''Whaleship Essex''.
★ In Herman Melville's novel ''Moby-Dick'', Nantucket is the port town of departure for Ahab's whaling ship, the ''Pequod''.
★ In the ''Island in the Sea of Time'' trilogy, Nantucket gets sent back in time 3,000 years and ends up as the capital of the world-spanning ''Republic of Nantucket''.
Music
★ In the Billy Joel song ''Downeaster 'Alexa' (1989) Nantucket is mentioned.
Resources
★ Bond, C. Lawrence, ''Native Names of New England Towns and Villages'', privately published by C. Lawrence Bond, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1991.
★ Philbrick, Nathaniel, ''In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex'', Penguin, NY, NY, 2000.
See also
★ Brant Point Light
★ Mayhew Folger
★ Folgers Coffee
★ ''The Inquirer and Mirror'' (main weekly newspaper)
★ ''Nantucket Independent'' (other weekly newspaper)
★ Rowland Hussey Macy
★ Maria Mitchell
★ Moby Dick
★ Mary Morrill
★ Lucretia Mott
★ Nantucket Reds
★ Nantucket Sound
★ Wampanoag
★ Charles F. Winslow
★ Martha's Vineyard
References (footnotes)
1. Huden, John C. (1962). ''Indian Place Names of New England''. New York: Museum of the American Indian. Cited in: Bright, William (2004). ''Native American Place Names in the United States''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pg. 312
External links
★
★ Nantucket on Google Maps
★ Town of Nantucket
★ Nantucket library
★ Nantucket Regional Transit Authority
★ Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce
★ ''Nantucket.net'', the local ISP and web portal
★ Nantucket Film Festival
★ ''The Nantucket Independent'', the weekly newspaper
★ ''Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror'', the local newspaper
★ Fabrikant, Geraldine, "Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New", ''New York Times'', June 5, 2005
★ ''Yesterday's Island'', a local magazine
★ Nantucket Historical Association
★ Prospect Hill Cemetery
★ A Brief History of Nantucket
★ Listing for Nantucket County and for the Nantucket Historic District, in the National Register of Historic Places
★ Nantucket County, Massachusetts Genealogy and History
★ Map of cities and towns of Massachusetts
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