US-MA-Siasconset


 * =Birding in Massachusetts=

Nantucket County
=Siasconset= Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554 Siasconset (Wikipedia) webpage

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Siasconset
Coordinates: 41.2638722, -69.9698639 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Siasconset--Baxter Road Erosion Control Project Viewpoint
Coordinates: 41.278763, -69.962622 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Siasconset--Baxter/Sankaty Roads
Coordinates: 41.2684205, -69.9639416 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Siasconset--Codfish Park
Coordinates: 41.261227, -69.9635553 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Siasconset
The area was settled as a fishing village in the 17th century. The core of one of the older fishing shacks known as "Auld Lang Syne" is believed to date from the 1670s but was moved around several times from its original foundation. Various other cottages date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of the houses were haphazardly added onto contributing to the unique look of these Nantucket cottages.

In the nineteenth century, a whaling station was present in the village. In 1877 Edward Underhill from Wolcott, New York bought land in the village and constructed cottages in the fashion of the original fishing shacks and then rented them to summer tourists.[5]

In the early twentieth century, it was a summer retreat for an Actor's Colony which included Digby Bell, George Fawcett, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Penrose, Hassard Short, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving, DeWolf Hopper, Frank Gillmore and his daughters Ruth and Margalo Gillmore, among others. From Siasconset (Wikipedia) webpage

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