Siasconset, Massachusetts
Encyclopedia
Siasconset is a village at the eastern end of Nantucket island
, Massachusetts
, United States
with an elevation of 52 feet (16 m). Although unincorporated, the village has a post office
, with the ZIP code
02564.
The various spellings of its name, Sconset, Sconset, Seconset, Siasconsett, or Sweseckechi led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1892.
In the early twentieth century it was a summer retreat for an Actor's Colony which included Digby Bell
, George Fawcett
, Joseph Jefferson
, Charles Penrose
, Hassard Short
, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving
, DeWolf Hopper
, Frank Gillmore
and his daughters Ruth
and Margalo Gillmore
, among others.
Algonquian term for “place of great bones.” Si from missi, meaning “great;” ascon from askon, meaning “horn or bone”.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
with an elevation of 52 feet (16 m). Although unincorporated, the village has a post office
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
, with the ZIP code
ZIP Code
ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
02564.
The various spellings of its name, Sconset, Sconset, Seconset, Siasconsett, or Sweseckechi led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1892.
In the early twentieth century it was a summer retreat for an Actor's Colony which included Digby Bell
Digby Bell
Digby Bell was a popular vaudeville entertainer and Broadway performer at the beginning of the 20th century.-Performing career:...
, George Fawcett
George Fawcett
George Fawcett was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. On stage he appeared in such plays as Ghosts with the controversial Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man with William Faversham, The Great John Ganton with an up-and-coming actress Laurette Taylor in the cast and Getting A Polish with...
, Joseph Jefferson
Joseph Jefferson
Joseph Jefferson, commonly known as Joe Jefferson , was an American actor. He was the third actor of this name in a family of actors and managers, and one of the most famous of all American comedians....
, Charles Penrose
Charles Penrose
Charles Penrose was an English music hall and theatre performer, and later radio comedian, who is best known for his unusual comic song "The Laughing Policeman"...
, Hassard Short
Hassard Short
Hubert Edward Hassard Short , usually known as Hassard Short, was an actor, stage director, set designer and lighting designer in musical theatrewho directed over 50 Broadway and West End shows between 1920 and 1953...
, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving
Isabel Irving
Isabel Irving was an American actress. She was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and made her New York stage debut in 1886 at the Standard Theatre in The Schoolmistress under Rosina Vokes. She retired from the theater in 1936. She was married to William H. Thompson until his death in 1923...
, DeWolf Hopper
DeWolf Hopper
William DeWolf Hopper was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer. Although a star of the musical stage, he was best-known for performing the popular baseball poem Casey at the Bat. -Biography:...
, Frank Gillmore
Frank Gillmore
Frank Gillmore was an English American playwright and a stage and early film actor...
and his daughters Ruth
Ruth Gillmore
Ruth Emily Gillmore was an English American stage actress.Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, former president of Actors' Equity, and the actress Laura MacGillivray, and the sister of actress Margalo Gillmore...
and Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore
Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore was an English American film, stage and television actress....
, among others.
Etymology
Siasconset is a WampanoagWampanoag
The Wampanoag In the 1600s when encountered by the English, the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as within a territory that encompassed current day Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...
Algonquian term for “place of great bones.” Si from missi, meaning “great;” ascon from askon, meaning “horn or bone”.