The Nantucket Railroad operated for 36 years from 1881 to 1917. It started from Steamboat Wharf and traveled along the Easy Street basin across this site, ultimately transporting passengers to summer resort hotels and cottages in Surfside, Tom Nevers, and 'Sconset. When automobiles were allowed on island in 1918, the railroad was shut down and the rails, cars, and engines were sent to France to support the war effort.

The Algonquin Hotel Site of the legendary Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s where such acid-tongued wits as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcot traded barbs and bon mots daily over lunch. The century's literary luminaries -- Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Gertrude Stein and James Thurber, among countless others -- also found a haven within its oak-lined walls. Designated a literary landmark. July 6, 1996 Submitted by Curiouser