Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
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Prior to 19th century
- 1652 - European settlers arrive.
- 1778 - September - Grey's raid.
- 1787 - Town incorporated.[1]
- 1792
- The Medley newspaper begins publication.[2]
- Post office in operation.
- 1796 - New Bedford and Fairhaven Bridge Company incorporated.[3]
- 1797
- first Clarks Point Light built.
- Population: 3,313.[1]
- 1798 - Columbian Courier newspaper begins publication.[2]
19th century
- 1803 - Social Library organized.[4]
- 1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1808 - Old Colony Gazette begins publication.[2]
- 1812
- 1816 - Bedford Commercial Bank incorporated.[4]
- 1825 - Merchants Bank incorporated.[4]
- 1828 - Lyceum founded.[4]
- 1829
- Ash Street Jail built.
- First Baptist Church built.
- 1830
- 1831
- 1832 - Seamen's Bethel built.
- 1833 - Mechanics Association founded.[4]
- 1834 - United States Customhouse and Rotch house (residence) built.
- 1837 - New Bedford Rural Cemetery incorporated.[3]
- 1838
- September: Frederick Douglass moves to New Bedford.[5]
- New Bedford and Taunton Rail Road incorporated.[3]
- 1841 - Charles W. Morgan (ship) built.
- 1843
- 1846 - Wamsutta Mills incorporated.[3]
- 1847
- City incorporated.
- Abraham H. Howland becomes mayor.
- Horticultural Society incorporated.[3]
- 1849
- J. & W. R. Wing Company in business.
- Palmer Island Light built.
- 1850 - Daily Evening Standard newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1853
- Municipal public library established.[6][7]
- New Bedford Institute for Savings built.
- 1855 - New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.[8]
- 1861 - Fort built at Clark's Point.
- 1866
- Hathaway & Soule in business.[9]
- Wamsutta Club founded.
- Hutchinson's Circulating Library in business.[10]
- 1867 - Fire Station no.4 built.
- 1871 - Whaling Disaster of 1871
- 1877 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
- 1888 - Fairhaven Bridge Light built.
- 1891 - Charles S. Ashley becomes mayor.
- 1894 - Buttonwood Park Zoo opens.
- 1895 - New Bedford Textile School chartered.
- 1899
- New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge constructed.[11]
- Union Baptist Church built.
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 40,733.[12]
- 1901 - Hotel Waverly built.
- 1903
- 1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
- 1908 - St. Anthony of Padua Church built.
- 1910 - Population: 96,652.[12]
- 1912 - Orpheum Theatre opens.
- 1916 - Whaling Museum opens.
- 1919 - Alvorada Jornal Diario newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1920 - Population: 121,217.
- 1927 - St. Casimir Parish established.
- 1942 - Airport built.
- 1946 - Your Theatre founded.[14]
- 1962 - Waterfront Historic Area League organized.
- 1970 - Racial unrest.[15]
- 1972
- New Bedford High School established.
- John A. Markey becomes mayor.
- New Bedford Historical Commission established.[16]
- Sister city relationship established with Horta, Azores.[17]
- 1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens.
- 1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established.
- 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan.[18]
- 1996
- New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and New Bedford Historical Society established.
- City website online (approximate date).[19]
- 1997
- Azorean Maritime Heritage Society organized.
- New Bedford Bay Sox baseball team formed.
21st century
- 2003 - Coast Guard Station New Bedford closes.
- 2006 - Scott W. Lang becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Population: 95,072.
- New Bedford Museum of Glass opens.[20]
- 2012 - Jonathan F. Mitchell becomes mayor.[21]
- 2015 - Marine Commerce Terminal begins operating.[22][23]
See also
- New Bedford history
- List of mayors of New Bedford, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, 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 Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Waltham, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts
References
- 1 2 Morse 1797.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Taber 1852.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Crapo 1836.
- ↑ "Frederick Douglass Chronology". Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved December 2014.
- ↑ Edward Edwards (1869), Free Town Libraries: Their Formation, Management, and History in Britain, France, Germany & America, New York: J. Wiley, OCLC 1385548
- ↑ Proceedings on the occasion of laying the corner-stone of the library edifice, for the Free Public Library, of the city of New Bedford, August 28, 1856, New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony, 1856, OCLC 8693441
- ↑ George H. H. Allen (1923), New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, New Bedford, Mass.: [Reynolds, printer], OCLC 18996332
- ↑ "Soule", Men of progress: one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: New England Magazine, 1896
- ↑ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ↑ "New Bedford-Fairhaven Middle Bridge, Spanning Acushnet River on U.S. Highway 6, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA". Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress). Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- 1 2 3 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ "Flies invade New Bedford". New York Times. June 9, 1903.
- ↑ "Who We Are". New Bedford: Your Theatre, Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis, ed. (2005). "Chronology". To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983893-6.
- ↑ "New Bedford Historical Commission". City of New Bedford. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ↑ Reference Department, New Bedford Free Public Library, December 2014
- ↑ "Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Society". Retrieved December 2014.
- ↑ "City of New Bedford Official Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "New Bedford Museum of Glass". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ↑ First cargo ship arrives New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, New Bedford Guide.com, July 6, 2015
- ↑ "$113m New Bedford marine terminal sits largely idle", Boston Globe, August 30, 2015
Bibliography
- Published in the 18th-19th century
- Jedidiah Morse (1797), "New Bedford", American Gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews
- Henry Howland Crapo (1836), The New-Bedford directory ... and the town register ... Also, a list of whale ships, belonging to the United States, New Bedford, Mass.: J.C. Parmenter, printer, OCLC 35857446
- New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: C. & A. Taber. 1849.
- Herman Melville (1851), "Chapter 6", Moby-Dick, Harper & Brothers (novelist's description of New Bedford)
- New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: Charles Taber & Co. 1852.
- New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: Charles Taber & Co. 1859.
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1871-2. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1871.
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1873-4. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1873.
- Elias Nason (1874), "New Bedford", Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, Boston: B.B. Russell, OCLC 1728892
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1875-6. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1875.
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1879-80. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1879.
- Joseph Sabin, ed. (1881). "New Bedford, Mass.". Bibliotheca Americana 13. New York. OCLC 13972268.
- Robert Grieve (1889), "Nantucket", Illustrated Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Taunton, New Bedford, Fall River (2nd ed.), Providence, RI: J.A. & R.A. Reid, OCLC 10563002
- New Bedford and Fairhaven Directory: 1897. Boston: W.A. Greenough & Co. 1897.
- Published in the 20th century
- "New Bedford", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
External links
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- WhalingCity.net. Chronological History of New Bedford, Mass.
- American Experience (2010). "Timeline: The History of Whaling in America". Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. WGBH Educational Foundation.
- Works related to New Bedford, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
- Items related to New Bedford, various dates (via US Library of Congress, Prints & Photos division)
- Images related to New Bedford (via New York Public Library)
Images
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Map of New Bedford, 1851
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Hathaway & Soule, est.1866
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Advertisements, 1873
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Wamsutta Mills in 1876
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Aerial view of New Bedford Harbor, 1984
Coordinates: 41°38′10″N 70°56′05″W / 41.636111°N 70.934722°W
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