Siasconset is a village at the eastern end of Nantucket island, Massachusetts, United States with an elevation of 52 feet (16 m). Although unincorporated, the village has a post office. In the early twentieth century it was a summer retreat for an Actor's Colony which included Digby Bell, George Fawcett, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Penrose, Hassard Short, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving, DeWolf Hopper, Frank Gillmore and his daughters Ruth and Margalo Gillmore, among others. Siasconset is a Wampanoag Algonquian term for place of great bones. Si from missi, meaning great; ascon from askon, meaning horn or bone.