Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Siasconset, MA

Siasconset is a census-designated place (CDP) at the eastern end of Nantucket Island in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, with an elevation of 52 feet, and it had a population of 505 in the 2020 census, up from 205 in 2010.

The Siasconset CDP covers 2.1 square miles of land, and in 2020 it had 229 households and 944 housing units, of which 75.7 percent were vacant and 74.3 percent were held for seasonal, recreational or occasional use.

Siasconset's median age was 51.7 years in 2020, with 30.5 percent of residents aged 65 or older, and its population was 202 males and 303 females.

In the 2020 census, 87.1 percent of Siasconset's residents were White alone and 6.7 percent were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Siasconset is a Wampanoag Algonquian term meaning 'place of great bones,' and the Board on Geographic Names designated its official spelling in 1892 after variant spellings including 'Sconset, Sconset, Seconset and Siasconsett.

The area was settled as a fishing village in the 17th century, and the core of Auld Lang Syne, one of the older fishing shacks, is believed to date from the 1670s, potentially making it one of the oldest houses on Nantucket.

A whaling station was present in the village in the 19th century, and in 1877 Edward Underhill of Wolcott, New York bought land in the village and built new cottages in the fashion of the original fishing shacks, renting them to summer tourists before they were sold after his death.

In the early 20th century Siasconset was a summer retreat for an actor's colony that included Digby Bell, George Fawcett, Joseph Jefferson, DeWolf Hopper and Frank Gillmore, and former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick has lived in Siasconset in the NFL off-season since 1979.

Sankaty Head Light, at the easternmost point of Nantucket in Siasconset, was first lit on February 1, 1850 and was the first lighthouse in Massachusetts built with a Fresnel lens as original equipment; the entire tower was moved about 400 feet inland in 2007 to escape the eroding bluff, and its original Fresnel lens is now on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum.

Three of the four golf courses on Nantucket Island are in Siasconset: the Siasconset Golf Club, the Sankaty Head Golf Club and the Nantucket Golf Club.