Timeline of the history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket , Massachusetts , USA.
19th century
1810
Second Congregational Meeting House incorporated.[11]
Population: 6,807.[12]
1814 – Nantucket declares neutrality in the US-British War of 1812 .[13]
1816 – May: Nantucket Gazette newspaper begins publication.[14]
1817 – Fragment Society formed.[15]
1820
Nantucket Mechanics' Social Library Society founded.[16]
Population: 7,266.[17]
1821 – The Inquirer [14]
1823
Columbian Library Society founded.[16]
United Methodist Church built.[18]
1853 drawing of a Nantucket shark, by Jacques Burkhardt [16] [6] 1834 – Nantucket Athenaeum incorporated.[18]
1835
African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated.[19]
Silk Factory in business.[20]
1836 – Ladies' Howard Society formed.[21]
1838 - Nantucket High School established.
1839 – Trinity Church built.[18]
1840 – First Baptist Church built.[18]
1846 – Fire.[3]
1848 – Atlantic House hotel in business in Siasconset .[22]
1850 - Sankaty Head Light built.
1854 – Lightship Nantucket and Town Library[16]
1855 - Death of Dorcas Honorable , Nantucket's last Native American Wampanoag Indian.
1856
Nantucket Agricultural Society founded.[23]
Lighthouse rebuilt.[5]
1864 – Josiah Freeman photography studio in business.[24]
1866 – Union Benevolent Society founded.[15]
1869 - Nantucket's last whaler sailed.[6]
1873 – Nantucket Relief Association founded.[15]
1875 – Civil War monument erected.[5]
1877 – Sherburne Lyceum organized.[5]
1881 – Nantucket Railroad built.
1883 – Siasconset Union Chapel,[18] [5]
1886
1892 – Point Breeze Hotel in business.[5]
1894 – Nantucket Historical Association founded.[18]
1895 – Goldenrod Literary and Debating Society founded.[26] Original Nantucket Railroad reaches bankruptcy, Nantucket Central Railroad Company established
1897 – Church of St. Mary-Our Lady of the Isle built.[18] 
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