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Fish Shanties, Old South Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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Fish Shanties, Old South Wharf, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

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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
Google Map of 41.2838763, -70.094656
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Library of Congress
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