Chilmark History

August 31, 1899

Golf Club

Vineyard Gazette
A golf club has been formed in town and named the Nashouohkamuk Golf Club, Nashouohkamuk being the old Indian name for Chilmark.
Golf
Chilmark History

2011

August 25, 2011
barn house stone wall south road

Register Weighs History of Barn Where Poets, Painters Played

Remy Tumin
Barn House
Historic buildings
Chilmark History

The historic 17th century Barn House in Chilmark, famously home to an avant-garde communal colony of Vineyard artists, writers and intellectuals, is being considered by the Massachusetts Historical Commission for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

1996

May 10, 1996

Call It Quaint If You Must, But Menemsha Remains a Fishing Village

Mark Alan Lovewell
Chilmark History
Fishing
Menemsha harbor
Menemsha fishermen rise with the sun. On a cool, clear morning this week, the lobstermen came down one by one to take their boats to sea.
 
Pat Jenkinson came down to his lobster boat Solitude. Herbert Hancock’s boat Billie H. began with a roar of its diesel engine.
 

1985

August 20, 1985

Expert Traces Vineyard Story of Deaf and Their Community

David Corr
Hereditary Deafness
Chilmark History
Chilmark fishermen Christopher Murphy approached medical anthropologist Nora Groce after her delivery of the last Nathan Mayhew Seminars lecture of the summer Thursday night, and recalled a remnant of sign language use by old-timers he used to work for.
 
The news came as pleasant confirmation to Miss Groce, who has spent the better part of the last six years tracing the origins of a community of deaf people who lived pretty much like - and in harmony with - the hearing populace of the Vineyard from its earliest settlement through the 19th century.

1952

August 8, 1952

New Coast Guard Station Arrives

Vineyard Gazette
Chilmark History
U.S. Coast Guard
Menemsha
The Island’s new Coast Guard station, en route from Cuttyhunk, came through Quick’s Hole, from Buzzards Bay at 1 o’clock yesterday, and proceeded across the Sound without mishap.
 

1927

March 25, 1927

Up-Island Civil Positions Filled

Vineyard Gazette
Alley's General Store
West Tisbury Post Office
Chilmark post office
West Tisbury History
Chilmark History
Official notification of their respective appointments as postmaster of Chilmark and West Tisbury have been received by Carl M. Whitkop and Charles A. Turner. Mr. Whitkop’s appointment for Chilmark was dated March 11, while Mr. Turner’s was dated March 19.
 

1903

September 15, 1903

Lake Anthony and Menemsha

Vineyard Gazette
Menemsha harbor
Oak Bluffs harbor
Chilmark History
Oak Bluffs history

The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners has sent to the legislature its report -for 1902. Regarding improvements completed or contemplated on the Vineyard the board says:

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