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Whaling Museum Open
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On This Day in Nantucket History
April 4, 1752Read more from April 4, 1752
Eighteen-year-old Peleg Folger left on the ship Mary headed north to hunt whales. This is what he wrote in his whaling journal on this day in 1752. Read more from April 4, 1752
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