Part III

Nantucket

1. III.1Thirty Pounds and Two Beaver Hats1659-1681From Dionis Coffin's beer case to the purchase of Nantucket.
2. III.2The Wreck and the Fine1678-1681A French ship on the Nantucket shoals, two thousand hides, and the fine that nearly sent the island's first magistrate to prison.
3. III.3The Island That Lit the World1712-1846How the Coffins, Folgers, Macys, Starbucks and Gardners of Nantucket built the whaling industry that lit the world.

BackgroundNantucket, an Island Run by Shares

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