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description

Summary

Significance: These small fish and scallop shanties, many of them moved from locations on Washington Street and along the waterfront, are the only remaining wharf structures that resemble those that crowded the wharves in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Survey number: HABS MA-853

Building/structure dates: 1762 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1846 Subsequent Work

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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Location

Nantucket (Mass.) ,  41.28388, -70.09466
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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