Clinton Folger, mail carrier for Nantucket, towed his car to the state highway for driving to Siasconset, in observance of an early 20th-century ban on automobiles on town roads.
1870s street scene on Nantucket
The town on Nantucket Island, when it was still called Sherburne, in 1775
The cobblestone Main Street in historic downtown Nantucket
NASA satellite image of Nantucket Island
Nantucket Town & County Building
In 1827, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin set up the Coffin School to educate descendants of Tristram Coffin.[61] After initially faltering, the school was reconstituted in this building on Winter Street in 1854.