Nantucket, Massachusetts City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Nantucket, Massachusetts Travel Guide has been your connection to Nantucket's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Historic Nantucket
 The Historic District is the hub of Nantucket. Wander along Main, Federal and Center Streets and you will find a plethora of beautiful bed and breakfast inns, museums, delightful galleries, and historic homes where the captains of whaling ships once lived. The Nantucket Historical Association operates 14 of these historic properties as museums, and you can purchase an NHA Visitors Pass at any of the museums or from the association's gift shop. The pass gives you access to all the sites, or you may pay a single admission at each. Purchase a pass, head out on foot from your bed and breakfast, and enjoy a historic stroll around Nantucket.
At the Whaling Museum set your sights on a 46-foot skeleton of a whale that washed up on shore in 1996, a restored 1881 tower clock from the Sankaty Head Lighthouse, portraits of important Nantucket seafarers, decorative arts, and more. Walk through a Greek Revival mansion belonging to a whaling merchant and silver retailer, the oldest residence on Nantucket given as a wedding gift in 1686, the oldest functioning mill in the country, and many more interesting, thoughtful historic sites. A historic town like Nantucket makes for a pleasing bed and breakfast get-away, slowing down the day’s pace and increasing your conscious sense of joy.
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