Timeline:
1900-WWI
- 1900 ’Sconset Casino opens
- 1901 Chanticleer restaurant opened by Agnes Everett
- 1901 Beach House, ’Sconset’s third hotel, established by G. H. Brinton
- 1901 First commercial message sent from Cunard liner Lucania via the Nantucket Lightship to the Marconi Wireless Station on Main Street in ’Sconset
- 1902 Post Office moved to its present location at Post Office Square; Anna Barrett postmistress
- 1906 Saltwater swimming pool built by Albert G. Brock and Roland B. Hussey
- 1910 Isaac Hills opens ’Sconset Cottage Club
- 1912 April 14, first distress signal from the Titanic heard at the Marconi Station
- 1914 Clinton Folger’s “horsemobile” brings mail to ’Sconset
- 1915 ’Sconset Association votes to secede from mother township due to poor, or no, services for water, sewer, and fire protection
- 1916 New ’Sconset schoolhouse built ; old one sold to Frank O. Holdgate for $190
- 1917 President Wilson visits his daughter in ’Sconset
- 1917 Last trip of the railroad to ’Sconset
A digital exhibition by the Nantucket Historical Association