Timeline:
1820-1870
'Sconset: 1820–1870
- 1824 Milestones placed by Peter F. Ewer
- 1825 Visit of Massachusetts Governor Lincoln
- 1830s Leading Nantucket citizens build summer houses on ’Sconset’s Main Street
- 1830 ’Sconset bowling alley at Bunker Hill
- 1835 Map of the Village of Siasconset
- 1837 Boston Traveller in New Bedford Mercury dubs village “a favorite place of resort”
- 1838 William Mitchell Jr.’s detailed map of village
- 1840 Harry Franco (aka Charles Frederick Briggs) writes “Siasconset: How It Arose and What It Is” in The Knickerbocker in the sixth of his “Gimcrack” series
- 1841 Lydia Barney’s poem “O Spare us our Sconset, great Neptune we pray”
- 1846 Dr. Charles C. Dyer diary mentions 150 houses and local storyteller and genealogist Benjamin Franklin Folger
- 1848 Atlantic House: Main Street, ’Sconset’s first hotel
- 1849/50 Sankaty Light built, illuminated by second-order Fresnel lens with single-wick whale-oil lamp,
Captain Samuel Bunker first keeper
- 1858 Map of 'Sconset drawn by H. F. Walling
- 1860 Harper's Weekly mentions Mother Cary public house
- 1868 Description of "Nantucket squantums" in Lippincott's Magazine
A digital exhibition by the Nantucket Historical Association