Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts

The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville, Massachusetts, US.

Prior to 19th century

  • 1630 - Charlestown settled.
  • 1631 - Colonial Governor John Winthrop granted 600 acres of land known as Ten Hills Farm.[1][2][3]
  • 1703 - Windmill built (approximate date).[3]
  • 1714 - Peter Tufts House built.[3]
  • 1756 - Powder House in use.[3]
  • 1776 - Grand Union Flag raised at Continental Army fortifications atop Prospect Hill.[4]

19th century

1800s–1860s

  • 1803 - Middlesex Canal begins in operation.[3]
  • 1804 - Old Cemetery established.
  • 1821 - Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works established.[5]
  • 1834 - Ursuline Convent Riots.[3]
  • 1835 - Boston & Lowell Railroad begins operating.[3]
  • 1842
    • Town of Somerville separates from Charlestown.[6] [3]
    • Population: 1,013.[6]
  • 1844 - First Congregational Society formed.[7]
  • 1851 - American Tube Works established.[5]
  • 1852
    • Somerville City Hall built.[3]
    • Somerville High School opens.[8] [3]
  • 1853
    • First Orthodox Congregational Church organized.[7]
    • First Universalist Society organized.[7][9]
  • 1854
    • Tufts College opens.
    • Union Glass Company established.[5]
  • 1856
    • First Methodist Episcopal Church organized.[7]
    • Round House built.
  • 1863 - Broadway Orthodox Congregational Church organized.[7]
  • 1864 - Circulating Library in business at Tufts' apothecary (approximate date).[10]
  • 1866
    • Emmanuel Episcopal Church built.[7]
    • Somerville Carriage Repository and Manufactory established.[11]
  • 1867 - Perkins Street Baptist Church dedicated.[7]
  • 1869 - Morse Grammar School built.[7]

1870s–1890s

  • 1870
    • Somerville Journal newspaper begins publication.[5]
    • St. Thomas Episcopal Church built.[7]
    • Boston and Lowell Railroad connected through West Somerville to the Lexington Branch.
  • 1871
    • City incorporated.[6] [3]
    • Somerville Samaritan Society organized.[7]
  • 1872
    • Somerville city government inaugurated.[6]
    • City seal design adopted.
    • Population: 16,000 (approximate).[6]
  • 1873
    • Public Library established.[12]
    • Luther V. Bell School built.[7]
    • Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church organized.[7]
  • 1874
    • West Somerville Baptist Church organized.[7]
    • West Somerville Congregational Church organized.[7]
    • Sprague & Hathaway Portrait Copying House established.[5]
  • 1876 - Somerville Citizen newspaper begins publication.[13]
  • 1886 - Third Universalist Church established.[14]
  • 1890
  • 1891 - Somerville Hospital founded.
  • 1892 - McLean Hospital relocates to Belmont.
  • 1898
    • Somerville Historical Society incorporated.[15]
    • Historic Festival.[16]
  • 1899
    • Forthian Club for women organized.[17][18]
    • First Unitarian Church built.
  • 1900 - Population: 61,643.[3]

20th century

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 248.
  2. ^ Robert C. Winthrop, Life And Letters Of John Winthrop: Governor Of The Massachusetts Bay Company At Their Emigration To New England 1630, (Kessinger Publishing, LLC), p. 64.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ The History of Prospect Hill, part 2 Retrieved 2014-10-11
  5. ^ a b c d e Haley 1903.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Fiftieth Anniversary 1922.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Greenough 1875.
  8. ^ Ueda 1984.
  9. ^ Harvard University. First Universalist Church (Somerville, Mass.). Records, 1861-1984: A Finding Aid
  10. ^ Catalogue of Books in the Somerville Circulating Library, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1864, OCLC 704271104, OL 24617840M
  11. ^ Greenough 1883.
  12. ^ Finding list of the Public Library of the City of Somerville, Mass., Somerville, Mass.: Somerville Journal Print, 1895, OL 22094495M
  13. ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  14. ^ Harvard University. West Somerville Universalist Church (Somerville, Mass.). Records, 1884-1950: A Finding Aid
  15. ^ Galpin 1901.
  16. ^ Somerville Historical Society (1898), Ye olden times at the foot of Prospect Hill: handbook of the historic festival in Somerville Massachusetts, November 28, 29, 30, December 1, 2, and 3 MDCCCXCVIII; Margaret MacLaren Eager, director, Somerville Journal, OCLC 11271884, OL 6940324M
  17. ^ Harvard University. Forthian Club of Somerville (Mass.) Records, 1889-1979: A Finding Aid
  18. ^ Boston Evening Transcript - Nov 11, 1899
  19. ^ Frederick A. Wilmot (1915), Somerville Pageant of World Peace: to foster and prophesy world peace; Tufts Oval, Somerville, Mass., July 3 and 5, 1915, West Somerville, Mass, OL 7194701M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ a b c Pluralism Project. "Somerville, Massachusetts". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  21. ^ "Timeline". Massachusetts: Somerville Community Access Television. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
  22. ^ "Community Media Archive". Internet Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  23. ^ "Brickbottom Artists Association". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  24. ^ "reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio", Exhibitions, Boston Public Library, 2012
  25. ^ "Somerville Museum". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  26. ^ "City of Somerville". Archived from the original on 1998-11-11 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  27. ^ "History". Somerville Open Studios. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  28. ^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Somerville, Massachusetts". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  29. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  30. ^ "Photos: Honk! Marching Band Festival In Somerville". The Artery. WBUR. October 13, 2013.
  31. ^ "Munch Madness 2015", Boston Globe, retrieved 26 March 2015
  32. ^ "Somerville Nordeste Finalize Sister City Agreement". City of Somerville. 2010.

Bibliography

  • Somerville, Arlington and Belmont Directory: 1869-70. Boston, Mass.: Dudley & Greenough. 1869.
  • Somerville City Directory for 1873. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1873.
  • Somerville City Directory for 1875-6. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1875.
  • Somerville City Directory for 1883. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1883.
  • Somerville City Directory. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1884.
  • Edward A. Samuels, ed.; Henry H. Kimball, ed. (1897), Somerville, past and present: an illustrated historical souvenir commemorative of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the city government of Somerville, Massachusetts, Boston: Samuels and Kimball, OL 13439695M {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)
  • Barbara Galpin (1901), Publication, no. 1: History of Somerville Journalism; with a list of members, officers, and committees of the Somerville Historical Society, Somerville, Mass: Somerville Historical Society, OL 14036554M
  • M. A. Haley (1903), Story of Somerville, Boston: Writer Publishing Co., OL 23342477M
  • "Somerville (Massachusetts)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 391–392.
  • Fiftieth Anniversary of the City of Somerville, Somerville: Somerville Journal Print, 1922, OL 14007850M
  • Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Somerville", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl:2027/mdp.39015014440781
  • Reed Ueda (1984). "The High School and Social Mobility in a Streetcar Suburb: Somerville, Massachusetts, 1870-1910". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14.
  • "Out of the Shadow of Boston and Cambridge", New York Times, October 2, 2014

Further reading

  • Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (2003). Somerville (Images of America: Massachusetts). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0738512907.
  • Somerville Board of Trade (1913). Somerville, Mass.: The Beautiful City of Seven Hills, Its History and Opportunities. A. Martin and Sons.
  • Dee Morris; Dora St. Martin (2008). Somerville, Massachusetts: A Brief History. The History Press. ISBN 978-1596294240.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Somerville, Massachusetts.
  • "Somerville and New England History Collection". Somerville Public Library.
  • Items related to Somerville, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
  • View of Charlestown, Mass., as seen from Somerville. Gleason's Pictorial, c. 1850s.
  • Somerville's Civil War monuments at Massachusetts Civil War Monuments Project

Images

  • Somerville Circulating Library, Milk Street, 1860s
    Somerville Circulating Library, Milk Street, 1860s
  • Somerville Carriage Repository, est. 1866 (advertisement from 1883)
    Somerville Carriage Repository, est. 1866 (advertisement from 1883)
  • Map of Somerville, 1884
    Map of Somerville, 1884
  • Union Glass Co., est. 1854 (cover of catalog, c. 1911)
    Union Glass Co., est. 1854 (cover of catalog, c. 1911)
  • Somerville Pageant of World Peace, July 1915
    Somerville Pageant of World Peace, July 1915

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