Timeline of Newburyport, Massachusetts
This is a timeline of the history of Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA.
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17th-18th centuries
- 1635 - Newbury incorporated.[1]
- 1761 - Belleville Congregational Church founded.[2][3]
- 1764 - Newburyport incorporated (formerly part of Newbury).
- 1772 - Marine Society of Newburyport established.[4]
- 1773
- Isaiah Thomas opens "a printing house in King Street."[5]
- Essex Journal newspaper begins publication.[6][7]
- 1790 - Population: 4,837.[8]
- 1793 - Impartial Herald newspaper begins publication.[6][7]
- 1794
- 1795
- 1797 - Newburyport Herald newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1799 - Newburyport Marine Insurance Co. incorporated.[9]
19th century
Newburyport, 1894
- 1801 - American Intelligencer newspaper published.[7]
- 1802 - Merrimac Humane Society established.[10]
- 1803
- 1804 - Political Calendar newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1805 - Merrimack Magazine begins publication.[7]
- 1807 - Newburyport Gazette newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1808 - Statesman newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1810
- 1812 - Washington Benevolent Society organized.[9]
- 1818 - Howard Benevolent Society instituted "for the relief of the sick and destitute."[10]
- 1825 - Newburyport Hosiery Co. established.[9]
- 1829 - Newburyport Lyceum organized.[9]
- 1835
- Society for the Relief of Aged Females founded.[9][10]
- U.S. Custom House built.[11]
- 1836
- 1837 - Bartlet Steam Mills incorporated.[9]
- 1840 - Pleasant Street Christian Church organized.[10]
- 1841 - Essex North District Medical Society organized.[10]
- 1842 - James Steam Mills incorporated.[9]
- 1844 - Essex Steam Mills incorporated.[9]
- 1845 - Globe Steam Mills and Ocean Steam Mills incorporated.[9]
- 1850
- 1851 - June 18: Essex North Musical convention held.[9]
- 1852 - Merrimack Library Association organized.[9]
- 1854
- Newburyport Public Library founded.[9]
- Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.[9]
- 1855 - Newburyport Library Association organized.[9]
- 1857 - Mechanic Library Association incorporated.[9]
- 1865 - Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church organized.[10]
- 1869 - Merrimack Marine Railway Co. incorporated.[9]
- 1874 - Newburyport Mutual Benefit Association organized.[10]
- 1877 - Antiquarian and Historical Society of Old Newbury established.[9][12][13]
- 1878 - Newburyport Athenaeum organized.[9]
- 1884 - Newburyport YMCA incorporated.[9]
- 1886 - Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Men incorporated.[9]
- 1887 - Newburyport Electric Light & Power Co. incorporated.[9]
- 1888 - Daily News established.
- 1890
- 1896 - Newburyport Choral Union organized.[9]
20th century
- 1904 - South End Reading Room Association formed.[9]
- 1906 - Newburyport Homeoepathic Hospital opens.[9]
- 1917 - Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Newburyport founded.
- 1968 - Newburyport Maritime Society established.[11]
- 1971 - Market Square Historic District added to National Register of Historic Places.
- 1991 - Actors Studio of Newburyport founded.[14][15]
- 1994 - Sister city relationship established with Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya.[16][17]
See also
- Timeline of Massachusetts[18]
- 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 Salem, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Waltham, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts
References
- ↑ Robert Noxon Toppan (1885), Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Newbury, Newburyport: The Society, OCLC 9488114
- ↑ "History". Newburyport: Belleville Congregational Church.
- ↑ Daniel Taggart Fiske. An historical discourse commemorative of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Belleville Congregational Church, Newburyport, Mass., delivered on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1858. E.P. Dutton & Co., 1859
- ↑ Acts of incorporation and by-laws of the marine society of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, Newburyport, MA: Printed by Whitton & Hale, 1846
- ↑ Thomas, Isaiah (1874). History of printing in America (2nd ed.). Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- 1 2 3 "Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Massachusetts". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Brigham, Clarence S. (October 1915). "Bibliography of American newspapers, 1690-1820; part 4: Massachusetts (except Boston)". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 25(2): 396-501. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ↑ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 John J. Currier (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass., 1764-1909, Newburyport: J. Currier (v.2)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Sampson, Davenport & Co. (Boston). Newburyport Directory, 1874. Newburyport: Stephen H. Fowle, 1874
- 1 2 "About Us". Custom House Museum. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ↑ Andrew McFarland Davis (Feb 1893), "Historical work in Massachusetts", Transactions (Colonial Society of Massachusetts)
- ↑ "Historical Society of Old Newbury". Retrieved 2012-04-24.
- ↑ "About Us". Actors Studio of Newburyport. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Member Directory". Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Newburyport Bura Alliance". Retrieved 2008-05-01.
- ↑ "Out of Amesbury and Newburyport to Africa, and Back", Boston Globe, January 30, 2000, (subscription required (help))
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Chronology", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Caleb Cushing (1826), The history and present state of the town of Newburyport, Newburyport: Printed by E.W. Allen, OCLC 9488117
- Joshua Coffin (1845), A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845, Boston: S.G. Drake, OCLC 1556618
- Euphemia Vale Blake (1854), History of Newburyport, Newburyport, Boston: Damrell and Moore
- Joseph Sabin, ed. (1881). "Newburyport, Mass.". Bibliotheca Americana 13. New York. OCLC 13972268.
- John J. Currier (1896), Ould Newbury, Boston: Damrell and Upham, OCLC 2482841
- Published in the 20th century
- John J. Currier (1902), History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902, Boston: Damrell & Upham, OCLC 2303477
- Oliver B. Merrill. North End Papers, 1618-1880, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Newburyport Daily News, 1906-1908.
- Samuel Eliot Morison (1921). "Newburyport and Nantucket". Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Newburyport", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- Fanny Louise Walton. Historic nuggets of Newburyport. Newburyport, Mass.: Newburyport Press, 1958
- Stephan Thernstrom (1964), Poverty and progress: social mobility in a nineteenth century city, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, OL 24748995M
- Published in the 21st century
- Bethany Groff (2008), Old Newbury, Charleston, SC: History Press, ISBN 9781596294813
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1805 satirical portrait by James Akin of Edmund M. Blunt wielding skillet against the artist (Worcester Art Museum)
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Newburyport, 1840s
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Newburyport, 19th century
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Newburyport, 1880
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Public library, 19th century
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Pleasant Street, c. 19th century
Coordinates: 42°48′45″N 70°52′40″W / 42.8125°N 70.877778°W
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