Martha's Vineyard · Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard
Massachusetts · United States
A whaling-era harbor town and a Victorian camp-meeting village, not a resort cliché.
Martha's Vineyard holds Edgartown's white-picket-fenced streets of 19th-century captains' houses, the white cast-iron Edgartown Lighthouse at the harbor entrance, and Oak Bluffs Campground's more than 300 brightly painted Victorian cottages built around a 19th-century Methodist camp meeting ground.
DISCOVER MARTHA'S VINEYARD
A whaling town and a Victorian camp-meeting village, both genuinely historic.
Edgartown is Martha's Vineyard's historic county seat and traditional main town, its white-picket-fenced streets lined with the grand captains' houses built on the island's 19th-century whaling wealth. At the entrance to Edgartown harbor, the Edgartown Lighthouse, a white cast-iron tower, is a genuinely distinct landmark from the town's streets and one of the island's most photographed sights. Across the island, Oak Bluffs Campground preserves a very different 19th-century world: a National Historic Landmark district of more than 300 brightly painted Victorian 'gingerbread' cottages that grew up around a Methodist camp meeting ground. The cottages remain private homes, best seen respectfully from the public streets and Trinity Park around them.
A Whaling Town And A Victorian Camp-Meeting Village
Edgartown · Edgartown Lighthouse · Oak Bluffs Campground
Martha's Vineyard holds a whaling-era harbor town and a Victorian camp-meeting village — a real island history, not a resort backdrop.
Edgartown's whaling-wealth streets and its harbor lighthouse hold one 19th-century story, while Oak Bluffs Campground's Victorian cottages, built around a Methodist camp meeting ground, hold an entirely different one — two genuinely distinct historic identities on one island.
Journey Possibility
Walk Edgartown's white-picket-fenced streets past its 19th-century captains' houses, visit the white cast-iron Edgartown Lighthouse at the harbor entrance, then cross to Oak Bluffs Campground's brightly painted Victorian cottages, viewed respectfully from public streets and Trinity Park.