Timeline:
1870-1900
'Sconset 1870-1900: The Emergence of a Resort 
- 1870s 'Sconset as an art community
- 1870s Beach bathing a "craze"
- 1872 ’Sconset Post Office established in Shanunga on Broadway; Love Baxter first postmistress
- 1873 Charles H. Robinson and Dr. Franklin Ellis build and promote Sunset Heights, ’Sconset’s first cottage community, and open Ocean View House hotel
- 1880 Siasconset Union Chapel founded
- 1879 Nantucket and Siasconset rivals in baseball
- 1881 Bird’s-Eye View map
- 1881 H. Judd Northrup publishes ’Sconset Cottage Life: A Summer on Nantucket Island
- 1882 ’Sconset Pump repaired with public ceremony
- 1882–88 Edward F. Underhill builds cottage community on Pochick, Evelyn, and Lily Streets
- 1883 Sankaty Heights development by William J. Flagg
- 1883 Dedication of Siasconset Union Chapel
- 1883 H. K. White’s Hamlet, aka Detroitville; later, Evergreen Park; finally, Wade Cottages
- 1884 Railroad extended to ’Sconset, dedicated July 8
- 1886 Edward F. Underhill’s Credible Chronicles of the Patchwork Village: ’Sconset by the Sea and Pictyure Booke of ye Patchworke Vyllage Sconsett by ye Sea
- 1886 Henry Coffin deeded a narrow strip of land to the Proprietors: Codfish Park
- 1887 ’Sconset Visitor reports ninety-six families occupying summer cottages, comprising 485 persons. The Underhill enclave has fourteen families with ninety-one persons. The hotels have 119 regular boarders, making 604 summer residents in all.
- 1887 Levi Coffin, Ocean View House, and Bloomingdale Farm
- 1888 ’Sconset Pump newspaper appears with Underhill’s “The Old Houses on ’Sconset Bank”
- 1890 Rev. Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford publishes the Heart of Siasconset
- 1890s Actors Colony flourishes in Underhill cottages and elsewhere
- 1898 ’Sconset Golf Club organized on Levi Coffin’s land
A digital exhibition by the Nantucket Historical Association