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Wendell's Hall is on Main Street, over the store of 

 Geo. W. Macy. It is a pretty little place for society 

 meetings, social assemblies, readings, or fairs. Its 

 seating capacity is about one hundred and seventy-five, 

 and it rents for $5 per night. Geo. W. Macy, agent. 



Institute Hall, on Main Street, is let for assemblies. 

 The hall is a small one, and has no settees. C. K. 

 Manter, agent. 



Pantheon Hall is one of the older halls, and has long 

 been in disuse. 



There are two other halls, — Sherburne Hall, owned 

 and occupied by the Odd Fellows, and a small hall in 

 the " Lodge Building" occupied by the Knights of 

 Honor and Good Templars. 



North Hall is a good-sized room on Centre Street, in 

 which the Women's Christian Temperance Union hold 

 their meetigs. 



Historical Sketches. 

 Discovery of Nantucket. 



Little dreamed those hardy old vikings when they 

 swept down from the frozen North, a thousand 

 years ago, fearing nor storm nor ice nor cold, that in 

 the ages to come, these broad lands — then first dis- 

 covered, and now known as the United States of 

 America — would be peopled by a nation the grandest 

 the world has seen, and numbering upwards of fifty 

 millions of souls. 



It is now quite generally believed that nearly five 

 centuries before Christopher Columbus ( Cristoval 

 Colon?),, braving every obstacle for the sake of an 



