Timeline:
WWII-Present
'Sconset During WWII 
- 1942 Top-secret Loran Station built by Coast Guard on Low Beach
- 1946 Fugitive German agent Fred Kammerdiner apprehended in ’Sconset; Anna Moser Hamilton arrested for sheltering Fort Devens escapee
- 1947 First production of On the Isle at the Casino
- 1947 Siasconset Historical Association established
- 1956 Moby Dick Inn burns
- 1957 Beach House demolished, Moby Dick cottages expanded
- 1961 Nathaniel Benchley, The Off-Islanders (basis for 1966 film The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!)
- 1976 Centennial celebrations, 200th anniversary of ’Sconset Pump
- 1984 ’Sconset Trust established
- 1992 December nor’easter washes Codfish Park houses into the sea
- 1997/8 Sperm whale washes ashore in ’Sconset on New Year’s Eve, skeleton now on display in Whaling Museum
- Jan. 1, 2000 Earliest U.S. sunrise in new millennium
- 2007 Post Office building restored
- 2007 Light moved to fifth hole of Sankaty Head Golf Club, 250 feet away from the bluff’s eroding edge
A digital exhibition by the Nantucket Historical Association