Nantucket
an island, county, an town, and county-seat of Massachusetts; Massachusetts; off the coast of Cape Cod, 30 miles from the mainland. The island is about 15 miles long by 3 to 4 miles wide; is triangular in shape; and with several small adjacent islands has an area of about 60 square miles. The most populous part of the town is on the N. shore of the island, about 56 miles E. of New Bedford. It contains the Nantucket Athenæum Library, a high school , Coffin's Manual Training School, waterworks, National and savings banks, gas and electric lights, and weekly newspapers. In summer a daily line of steamboats connects the island with New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Wood's Hole. The equable climate and dry soil of the island make it very healthful, and a favorite summer resort.
Pop. (1910) 2,962; (1920) 2,797.
NANTWICH, Libra a market-town of a Cheshire, England, on the Weaver, 4 NANTWICH, a market-town of miles S. W. of Crewe. It has some quaint old timber houses; a fine cruciform parish church, with a central octagonal tower, 110 feet high; a Gothic town hall (1858) ; a market hall (1867) ; a grammar school (1611) and brine baths (1883). Boot and shoe making and the manufacture of clothing, cotton goods and iron ware are the principal industries. A great fire (1583) , and its siege by the royalists under Lord Byron (1644) are the chief events in the history of Nantwich. Pop. about 3,000.