Nantucket Lands and Land Owners (Classic Reprint). This item is unavailable.Nantucket Lands and Land Owners (Classic Reprint)

Explore Nantucket’s early streets, families, and land lines through a detailed, era-spanning catalog of property and residence history.

This volume compiles street-by-street descriptions of Nantucket’s old neighborhoods, tracing who built, owned, and occupied key houses from the 18th through early 20th centuries. It presents how streets and lanes formed, where notable homes stood, and how property boundaries shifted as the town grew. The narrative blends place names, dates, and family connections to illuminate the island’s built past.

• Discover the locations and ages of historic houses and landmarks, with names associated to each site.
• Follow the evolution of streets and lanes, including former names and later renamings.
• See how certain families shaped the town’s layout, ownership, and architecture over generations.
• Learn to situate individual properties within the larger map of Nantucket’s land history.

Ideal for readers of local history, coastal town archives, and those curious about how a small New England community organized its land and homes across centuries. It offers a grounded, reference-style look at property history that can enrich understanding of Nantucket’s landscape.