Tour Overview
Step into Nantucket’s whaling past on this one-hour walking tour from the Nantucket Whaling Museum to the Civil War Monument.
As you stroll through quiet residential streets, you’ll discover the homes of sea captains, the wives who managed households during years-long voyages, and the tradesmen who powered the island’s global whaling industry. Selected from the Nantucket Preservation Trust’s house-marker program, each stop reveals the personal stories behind the island’s grand homes and simple workshops.
This tour is about the people who built Nantucket — not just at sea, but on land.
Stops
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Built for Benjamin Barney Jr., cooper, 1765
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Built for Joseph H. Nickerson, 1840
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Built for Reuben Russell, master mariner
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Built for (or moved to this site by) Robert Hussey, blacksmith, 1807
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Built by Joseph Edwards, ship carpenter and house carpenter, c. 1812
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Nathaniel Hussey, cooper, 1757
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Built for William Stubbs, mariner, 1800
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Built for Silas Paddack, mariner, 1767
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Built for Zaccheus Hussey, merchant, 1809
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Built for Charles Fittenberry Hussey, ropemaker, 1804
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Built for Reuben F . Coffin, master mariner, 1831
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Built for Gideon Folger, cooper, 1807
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Built for Daniel Worth, cooper, 1768
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Final Comments and Farewell
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