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 Located
thirty miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Nantucket is at
once an island, a county and a town. Originally inhabited for
centuries by Native Americans, Colonial settlers arrived in
the mid-1600s.
Nantucket still has 17th century buildings and holds
one of America's outstanding inventories of 18th and 19th century
architecture with more than 800 structures predating the American
Civil War era. Islanders created one of the first historic districts
in the United States, which now provides national landmark status
for the entire island. The cultural landscape of Nantucket Island,
shaped over the centuries through farming and sheep grazing,
contains rare and olden fragile environments unique in North
America with great historical, cultural and scientific significance. |
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