Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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Prior to 19th century
- 1669 - Common established.
- 1719 - Town meeting house built.[1]
- 1733 - Court House built.[2]
- 1763 - Old South Meeting house built (approximate date).[1]
- 1775
- Post office established.[1]
- Massachusetts Spy newspaper relocates to Worcester.
- 1786 - Worcester Magazine begins publication.[3]
- 1792 - Second Meeting House dedicated.[4]
- 1793
19th century
- 1800 - Independent Gazeteer begins publication.[3]
- 1801 - National Aegis newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1812 - American Society of Antiquaries founded.
- 1818 - Worcester Agricultural Society incorporated.[1]
- 1819 - Fraternity of Odd Fellows active.[5]
- 1823 - Massachusetts Yeoman newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1824 - Town Hall built.[1]
- 1825 - Worcester Lyceum of Natural History founded.
- 1828 - Blackstone Canal opens.
- 1829
- 1830
- Worcester County Colonization Society formed.[7]
- Worcester Social Library active.[5]
- 1832 - Worcester Law Library Association active.[5]
- 1833
- Tolman carriage factory established.[8]
- Ezra Rice House built.
- 1834
- St. John's Catholic Church established.
- Worcester Palladium newspaper begins publication.[3]
- Worcester Academy established.[9]
- 1835 - Harris' Circulating Library in operation.[5]
- 1838
- P. Young variety store established.[10]
- Christian Reflector newspaper begins publication.[3]
- Rural Cemetery is incorporated.[11]
- 1843 - College of the Holy Cross established.
- 1840 - Worcester County Horticultural Society formed.[1]
- 1844 - Worcester Almanac begins publication.[1]
- 1845
- 1847 - Worcester Telegraph and Worcester Daily Journal newspapers begin publication.[3]
- 1848
- Levi Lincoln, Jr. becomes mayor.
- City hosts Whig State Convention.[12]
- 1849 - Oread Institute founded.
- 1850 - City hosts National Women's Rights Convention.
- 1851 - Daily Morning Transcript newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1852 - Worcester Young Men's Christian Association founded.[13]
- 1853
- Worcester Rhetorical Society incorporated.[14]
- Emmanuel Baptist church built.
- Agricultural Fairgrounds in operation (approximate date).[1]
- 1854
- Hope Cemetery laid out.
- Mission Chapel built.
- 1856 - Worcester Employment Society and Highland Military School founded.[1]
- 1857
- Mechanics Hall built.
- Ladies' Collegiate Institute opens.[15]
- 1858 - Worcester Music Festival begins; Frohsinn Gesang Verein chorus formed.[1]
- 1860 - A.H. Word's Select Circulating Library active.[5]
- 1862 - Free Public Library building constructed on Elm Street.[14]
- 1864 - Dale Hospital opens.[1]
- 1865 - Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science founded.[16]
- 1866 - Worcester County Homoeopathic Medical Society formed.[1]
- 1868 - Chamberlain's Circulating Library in operation.[5]
- 1869 - Elwood Adams hardware store in business.[17]
- 1872 - South End commercial circulating library in operation.[5]
- 1873 - Home for Aged Women opens.[1]
- 1874
- Worcester Normal School established.
- Soldiers' Monument dedicated.
- Cathedral of Saint Paul built.
- 1875
- Worcester Society of Antiquity formed.[1]
- Train station built.
- 1876 - Grand Army of the Republic Hall built.
- 1877 - Irvings base ball team active.[1]
- 1879 - Worcester Worcesters base ball team formed (approximate date).[1]
- 1884
- Worcester bicentennial.[18]
- St. Peters Catholic Church built.
- 1885 - Frederick Daniels House built.
- 1886
- 1887
- Clark University founded.
- Becker's Business College formed.
- Pilgrim Congregational Church built.
- Horseshoers' Union organized.[1]
- 1888 - St. Mark's Episcopal Church built.
- 1889 - Old South Church built, corner Main and Wellington St.[1]
- 1891 - Lothrop's Opera House opens.[19]
- 1892 - New English High School opens.[1]
- 1894 - St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and South Unitarian Church built.
- 1895 - Union Congregational Church built.
- 1897 - Worcester Art Museum School established.[9]
- 1898
- Worcester Art Museum building opens.
- Worcester City Hall built.
- 1899 - Worcester Business Institute established.[9]
20th century
- 1900
- Population: 118,421.[20]
- Bancroft School established.[9]
- Bancroft Tower in Salisbury Park erected.
- 1901 - Worcester Magazine begins publication.[21]
- 1904
- Assumption College established.
- Shaarai Torah congregation incorporated.
- 1906
- Boulevard Park opens.
- Worcester Lunch Car and Carriage Manufacturing Company founded.
- Labor News begins publication.[3]
- Worcester Domestic Science School established.[9]
- 1907 - Slater Building constructed.
- 1910 - Population: 145,986.[20]
- 1911 - Train station rebuilt.
- 1912
- Bancroft Hotel built.
- Burnside Fountain installed.
- 1913 - Greendale Branch Library, Quinsigamond Branch Library and South Worcester Branch Library built.
- 1914
- Park Building constructed.
- September - Fashion Week.[22]
- 1921 - Temple Emanuel founded.
- 1923 - Worcester Panthers baseball team active.
- 1924
- Fitton Field stadium opens.
- Congregation Beth Israel founded.
- 1927 - Foley Stadium built.
- 1931 - Higgins Armory Museum opens.[23]
- 1938 - Worcester Junior College established.
- 1950 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester established.
- 1952 - Massachusetts Route 146 highway constructed.
- 1953 - Tornado.
- 1954 - Worcester Area Sports Car Club formed.
- 1955 - Commerce Bank & Trust Company founded.
- 1962 - University of Massachusetts Medical School established.
- 1963 - Quinsigamond Community College founded.
- 1968 - Worcester Consortium of universities founded.
- 1971
- Worcester Center Galleria opens.[24]
- Worcester Science Center and Mechanics Tower built.
- 1974
- Worcester Regional Transit Authority established.
- Worcester Plaza built.
- 1975 - Joseph D. Early becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district.
- 1976 - Worcester Magazine begins publication.[25]
- 1980 - New England Summer Nationals automotive festival begins.
- 1982 - Centrum arena opens.
- 1983 - Interstate 190 highway in operation.
- 1986 - Telegram & Gazette newspaper formed.
- 1987
- Greater Worcester Land Trust founded.
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts division opens.
- Sister city relationship established with Pushkin, Russia.[26]
- 1988
- Jordan Levy becomes mayor.
- Worcester Historical Museum opens on Elm Street.[27]
- 1991 - Sky Mark Tower built.
- 1994
- Raymond Mariano becomes mayor.
- Worcester Women's History Project founded.[28]
- Worcester IceCats hockey team active.
- 1996
- Worcester Sharks ice hockey team active.
- Music Worcester Inc. formed.
- 1997 - Jim McGovern becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district.
- 1999 - Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire.
21st century
- 2000
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences campus opens.
- Union Station renovated.[24]
- 2001 - Worcester Public Library main branch renovated.
- 2002 - Tim Murray becomes mayor.
- 2005 - Worcester Tornadoes baseball team formed.
- 2007 - Konstantina Lukes becomes mayor.
- 2010 - Joseph C. O'Brien becomes mayor.
- 2011 - Worcester Hydra soccer team founded.
- 2012 - Joseph Petty becomes mayor.
See also
- History of Worcester
- List of mayors of Worcester, Massachusetts
- Worcester, Massachusetts Firsts
- Media in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Other cities in Massachusetts
- Timeline of Boston
- Timeline of Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Haverhill, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Lowell, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts
- Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Waltham, Massachusetts
Images
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Town Hall, corner Main and Front St., built 1824
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Massachusetts Yeoman newspaper published in Worcester ca.1820s
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Dale Hospital, opened in 1864
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Map of Worcester, 1878
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Lothrop's Opera House, 1891 advertisement
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Worcester, ca.1905
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Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi
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"President Taft and Governor Draper passing Worcester City Hall, April 3, 1910"
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Worcester Domestic Science School, 1914
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Map of Worcester, 1919
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 Franklin Pierce Rice (1893), Dictionary of Worcester and vicinity, Worcester: F. S. Blanchard & Co.
- ↑ The City of Worcester, Massachusetts: its Public Buildings and its Business, 1886, Worcester: Sanford & Davis, 1886
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Franklin P. Rice (1884), The Worcester book: a diary of noteworthy events in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1883, Worcester: Putnam, Davis and Co., OCLC 6676339
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Peter Whitney (1793), The history of the county of Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Printed at Worchester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas
- ↑ Report made at an adjourned meeting of the friends of the American Colonization Society, in Worcester County, held in Worcester, Dec. 8, 1830, Worcester: Printed by S. H. Colton and Co., 1831, OCLC 14998249
- ↑ Heart of the Commonwealth, or, Worcester as it is, Worcester, Mass.: Henry J. Howland, 1856
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Homer L. Patterson (1921), Patterson's American Educational Directory, American Educational Co.
- ↑ Henry J. Howland (1853), Worcester almanac, directory, and business advertiser, for 1854, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 785826916
- ↑ Mildred McClary Tymeson. Rural retrospect: a parallel history of Worcester and its Rural Cemetery. Worcester: Albert W. Rice. 1956. pp. 28-33.
- ↑ Address adopted by the Whig State Convention, at Worcester, September 13, 1848, Worcester: s.n., 1848, OCLC 10603162
- ↑ Alfred S. Roe (1901), The Worcester Young Men's Christian Association, Worcester, Mass., OCLC 9642022
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Henry J. Howland (1865), The Worcester Directory for 1865, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 18580655
- ↑ Henry J. Howland (1861), The Worcester almanac, directory, and business advertiser, for 1861, Worcester: Printed and published by H.J. Howland, OCLC 785827805
- ↑ Addresses of inauguration and dedication, Worcester, November 11, 1868, Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1869
- ↑ Elwood Adams Hardware History
- ↑ Worcester, Mass. (1885), 1684, 1884: Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the naming of Worcester, October 14 and 15, 1884, Worcester, Mass: Printed by order of the City Council
- ↑ "Light: A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors". Worcester, Mass.: F. E. Kennedy. 1890.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Worcester", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ "Worcester Magazinge" 1. Worcester Board of Trade. 1901.. See also: v.3 (1902); v.6 (1903); v.14 (1911); v.15 (1912); v.19 (1916)
- ↑ "Worcester Magazine, October, 1914 (Vol. XVII No.10)".
- ↑ "Higgins Museum passes into history", Worcester Business Journal, December 31, 2013
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Long a College Town, Worcester Now Looks the Part", New York Times, January 6, 2015
- ↑ Worcester Mag. "About Us". Holden Landmark Corporation. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ "Worcester Sister City Program". International Center of Worcester. Retrieved December 2014.
- ↑ Worcester Historical Museum. "Museum History". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Worcester Women's History Project. "About Us". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Claflin; Black (1870), Five hundred past and present citizens of Worcester, Mass, G. R. Peckham, OCLC 1600205
- Franklin P. Rice, ed. (1899), Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Worcester, Mass: F. S. Blanchard, OCLC 404208
- Published in the 20th century
- Charles L. Nichols (1918), Bibliography of Worcester (2nd ed.), Worcester: Priv. print.
- Worcester Bank & Trust Company (1922), Historic events of Worcester, Worcester, Mass., OCLC 2973056
- Richards Standard Atlas of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. L.J. Richards & Co. 1922 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- R. W. G. Vail, ed. (1936). "Worcester". Bibliotheca Americana 29. New York. OCLC 13972268.
- Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Worcester", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Worcester, MA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
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