Early map of Nantucket, Courtesy: Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket is sold to and settled by nine original purchasers: Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne ...

Part of what makes the island unique is its place on the map. More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in Moby-Dick ...

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Hilderbrand, who has written 27 novels set on Nantucket, told Boston.com in a June 2024 interview that she was hopeful that ...

Early map of Nantucket, Courtesy: Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket is sold to and settled by nine original purchasers: Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne ...