1895 – Goldenrod Literary and Debating Society founded.1894 – Nantucket Historical Association founded.1892 – Point Breeze Hotel in business.Wyer's Art Store in business (approximate date).New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Company formed.1883 – Siasconset Union Chapel, Nantucket Hotel, Surf-Side Hotel and Springfield Hotel built.1873 – Nantucket Relief Association founded.1869 - Nantucket's last whaler sailed.1866 – Union Benevolent Society founded.1864 – Josiah Freeman photography studio in business.Nantucket Agricultural Society founded.1855 - Death of Dorcas Honorable, Nantucket's last Native American Wampanoag Indian.1854 – Lightship Nantucket and Town Library established.1848 – Atlantic House hotel in business in Siasconset.1838 - Nantucket High School established.African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated.1834 – Nantucket Athenaeum incorporated.ġ853 drawing of a Nantucket shark, by Jacques Burkhardt1827 – United Library Association and Lancasterian school founded. 1821 – The Inquirer newspaper begins publication.Nantucket Mechanics' Social Library Society founded.1816 – May: Nantucket Gazette newspaper begins publication.1814 – Nantucket declares neutrality in the US-British War of 1812.Second Congregational Meeting House incorporated.1795 – Town of Sherburne renamed 'Nantucket.'.1779 – April: British loyalists raid island.1775 – Nantucket tentatively states their neutrality during the American Revolutionary War.1713 – Tuckernuck Island becomes part of Nantucket County.Map of the Island of Nantucket, 1782, by Crèvecœur 1692 – Island becomes part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.1683 – Island becomes part of Dukes County, Province of New York.1672 – Town relocated to Wescoe from Madaket.1661 – Settlers arrive from Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts.1660 – Island becomes part of the Province of New York.Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Land established.Island sold to Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Thomas Macy, William Pike, John Swayne, and Richard Swayne.1641 – Island bought by Thomas Mayhew.1621 – Island granted to Plymouth Company of London.

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