PostCardArt

Nantucket PostCardArt

Reissued 6 x 9 inch, full color book shows some of the oldest postcards of Nantucket going back over 100+ years. The name Nantucket is derived from a Native American word meaning "faraway island" or "land far out to sea." - Nantucket was populated with approximately 1,500 Native Americans of the Wampanoag Tribe when it was discovered and charted in 1602 by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold. The history of Nantucket's settlement by the English begins in 1659, when Thomas Mayhew sold his interests to the "nine original purchasers" Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne, and William Pike for, "thirty pounds...and two Beaver hats one for myself and one for my wife." Revised in 2021.