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Along the way

Six of the highlights.

1. IThe Oldest HouseThe Jethro Coffin House on Sunset Hill, built in 1686 — the oldest house on the island still standing where it was raised.
2. IIBrant Point LightThe little lighthouse at the mouth of the harbour, on a station first lit in 1746 — the second-oldest in the country.
3. IIIThe Old MillBuilt in 1746 and still grinding corn on a windy day — the oldest working windmill in America.
4. IVUpper Main StreetThe whaling captains’ mansions and the Three Bricks, from the years when Nantucket lit the world.
5. V’SconsetThe historic fishing village at the east end — seventeenth-century fishermen’s shacks grown into rose-covered cottages.
6. VISankaty Head LighthouseThe red-banded tower of 1850 above the bluffs, moved back from the eroding edge in 2007.

With the moors and the cranberry bogs on the road between. Weather, season and the day’s traffic permitting.