History
It has always seemed to us that the harvest time is productive of the highest degree of satisfaction that mere man ever knows.
On May 14, 1846, Edgar Marchant introduced the Vineyard Gazette, the Island's first newspaper. It was the Golden Age of whaling.
We present to our readers this morning, the first number of “The Vineyard Gazette.”
The great age of scrapbooks, so far as the Vineyard is concerned, was back in the nineteenth century
Archaeologists surveying the future site of the Martha's Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven recently found traces of human use dating back thousands...
The world’s greatest steamship disaster — the sinking of the great White Star liner Titanic.
In December Tim Sauer, an Islander who likes to go out metal detecting, found a 1652 pine tree shilling, the oldest coin known to have been found on...
Eel Pond, anciently so named, is no longer a pond. From some points of view it has the character of an inland sea.
New exhibit at Martha’s Vineyard Museum explores the characters and figures from the heyday of Island whaling that often go unnoticed.
For many Islanders, the chairs and benches at the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle are synonymous with the place itself. Now the iconic 19th century seating...
The town historical commission will delay the demolition of a well-known house thought to have been a British headquarters during Grey’s Raid in 1778...
Picking up on efforts that began more than 40 years ago, Edgartown voters will decide next week whether to more than double the size of their...