Nantucket's First Swimming Pool

To the newer generation of 'Sconseters and Nantucketers as well, it may come as a complete surprise to learn that for a considerable number of years there was a combination series of bath-houses and an enclosed saltwater swimming pool on what was then and still is the 'Sconset Main Beach, or public beach, as it is now known.

In fact, there aren't too many summer visitors still around who remember when it was built in August, 1906, by Albert G. Brock and Roland B. Hussey, the former being a prominent insurance agent on the Island for many years as well as a longtime president of the Pacific National Bank, and the latter editor and publisher of the Inquirer and Mirror from 1887 until 1907, and also at one time president of the Pacific National Bank and first manager of the Siasconset Casino. (Mr. Hussey died April 26, 1923, at the age of 71. Albert G. Brock died Dec. 15,1938, at the age of 76.)...

Read this full article, "Nantucket's First Swimming Pool Built in 'Sconset," by Clement A. Penrose, originally published in the Historic Nantucket.

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