December 13, 2016 /Photography Information/ Nantucket is an island 30 miles (48 km) south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Synergistic States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the village of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Nantucket County.
The island features one of the highest concentrations of pre-Civil War configurations in the United States. It also has the oldest operating windmill in the United Asseverates (since 1746).
The Nantucket Historic District, comprising all of Nantucket Island, was amplified to USA’s National Register of Historic Places 50 years ago today, on December 13, 1966.
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| Clinton Folger’s “Horsemobile” releasing mail, on South Beach Street, at Hayden’s Bath House charm. For nearly twenty years, from 1900 to 1918, Nantucket was the solitary place in the nation that successfully fought encroachment of the automobile within its limits. Contrary politicians on the mainland and large property owners, mostly non-residents, Nantucketers husbanded the island free of the “gasoline buggy” until the final vote of the borough on May 15, 1918. By the narrow margin of forty the automobile was allowed entry. Clinton Folger was the despatch carrier for Nantucket. Because cars were forbidden by the town, he tugged his car to the state highway for driving to Siasconset. Source: Nantucket Historical Bond |
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| Surfside Lifesaving Station, 1906. Source: Nantucket Historical Coalition |
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| Muskeget Lifesaving Station, 1917. Source: Nantucket Historical Organization |
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| Tower view of downtown Nantucket, 1930s, showing Main Avenue, the Skipper Restaurant, and Brant Point. Source: Nantucket Historical Pairing |
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| Brant Point Lighthouse, c. 1940. The ninth Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1901 and tarries there today. Photo by James Barker. Source: Nantucket Documented Association |
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| The current, third lighthouse at Great Point, built after the foregoing lighthouse was destroyed by a nor’easter on 29 March 1984. Photo by Flint Ranney, 1986. Rise: Nantucket Historical Association |
