Nahant

Nahant is a metropolis in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The populace became 3,410 on the 2010 census, which makes it the smallest municipality through population in Essex County. With simply 1.0 square mile of land area, it's miles the smallest municipality via location in the nation. It is on the whole a residential network.Native Americans called the region Nahant, meaning "the point" or "peninsula." The unique Indian name of the place, Nahanten, signifies twins or matters united, relating to the two linked islands forming it.

Located on a tied island jutting into Massachusetts Bay, it become first settled in 1630, in the 2nd yr of the Puritan coming. The servants of Isaac Johnson grazed his farm animals at the land, and it changed into also often used by residents of Lynn for grazing livestock, sheep and goats. Before 1800 there have been most effective three homes on the island: those built via the Breeds and the Hoods, and the Johnson domestic built by means of Jeremiah Gray. The first inn changed into constructed via one of the Johnsons 1802, and in 1817 a steamboat ran every day between Boston and Nahant. The town turned into originally a part of Lynn; while the temperance motion threatened the summer motel alternate in 1853, Nahant included as a separate town.