Sconset

Nantucket Island was pronounced "Sconset," and he had read reports on marine biology from Woods Hole.

The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory Cleveland Moffett 1894

The eastern tip of the island here, you see the Sconset lighthouse behind me and then the bluff that it stands on, out in the ocean, laying down pretty flat right now.

CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006 2006

This is on the eastern tip of the island, an area called Sconset.

CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006 2006

'Sconset sat snugly on the edge of a bluff down which wooden stairs led to the beach.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

My grandmother had told me that her husband, on one of his many visits to the United States, had taken a boat from New York City to Nantucket long before most of the houses in 'Sconset had been built.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

We found jobs, Miriam as a waitress in a restaurant that opened in May, me as an errand girl for the 'Sconset summer theater group.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

He leased it, and it was his first season at 'Sconset.

The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey

"And he feels that fifty years in 'Sconset is better than a cycle anywhere else."

The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey

She was safe at 'Sconset, with the Admiral and her new friends the Copes.

The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey

"I love the sea, and there we shall have it all around us; and at night, the great dome of Heaven, studded with stars, will reach down to the sea on every side, and they say at 'Sconset, on the east end of the island, that when the breakers come in the sight is truly magnificent."

Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883