Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
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Prior to 19th century
- 1630 - Charlestown settled.
- 1631 - Colonial Governor John Winthrop granted 600 acres of land known as Ten Hills Farm.[1][2]
- 1703 - Windmill built (approximate date).[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 in operation.
- 1804 - Old Cemetery established.
- 1821 - Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works established.[5]
- 1834 - Ursuline Convent Riots.
- 1835 - Boston & Lowell Railroad begins operating.[3]
- 1842
- Town of Somerville separates from Charlestown.[6]
- Population: 1,013.[6]
- 1844 - First Congregational Society formed.[7]
- 1851 - American Tube Works established.[5]
- 1852
- Somerville City Hall built.
- High School opens.[8]
- 1853
- 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
- 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
- 1872
- 1873
- 1874
- 1876 - Somerville Citizen newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1886 - Third Universalist Church established.[14]
- 1890
- Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church built.
- North Packing Company established.
- Population: 40,152.[3]
- 1891 - Somerville Hospital founded.
- 1892 - McLean Hospital relocates to Belmont.
- 1898
- 1899
- Forthian Club for women organized.[17][18]
- First Unitarian Church built.
20th century
- 1901 - Lyndell's Bakery relocates to Somerville.
- 1903 - Prospect Hill Monument built.
- 1909 - West Somerville Branch Public Library opens.
- 1910 - Population: 77,236.[3]
- 1914
- Somerville Theatre built.
- Public Library central building constructed.
- Economy Grocery Store opens.
- 1915 - Pageant of World Peace.[19]
- 1916 - First Universalist Church built.
- 1922
- 1928 - Northern Artery constructed.
- 1935 - United States Post Office–Somerville Main built.
- 1936 - Mystic Valley Parkway constructed.
- 1941 - The Rosebud (diner) built.
- 1968 - Havurat Shalom founded.[20]
- 1972 - City seal redesigned.
- 1973 - Steve's Ice Cream opens.
- 1980 - Assembly Square Mall opens.
- 1981
- Sister city relationship established with Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
- Bertucci's pizzeria opens.
- 1983 - Somerville Community Access Television founded.[21][22]
- 1984 - Davis (MBTA station) opens.
- 1985 - Alewife Linear Park established.
- 1987
- Brickbottom Artists Association active.[23]
- Mixit Print Studio established.[24]
- Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
- 1988 - Somerville Museum opens.[25]
- 1990 - Mike Capuano becomes mayor.
- 1991 - Candlewick Press established.
- 1998 - City website online (approximate date).[26]
- 1999
- Dorothy Kelly Gay becomes mayor.
- Leverett Circle Connector Bridge opens.
- Somerville Open Studios begins.[27]
- Mike Capuano becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.
21st century
- 2002 - P.A.'s Lounge opens.
- 2003
- 2004 - Joseph Curtatone becomes mayor.[29]
- 2005
- Union Square Main Streets organized.
- Union Square farmers' market begins.
- Sikh Sangat Society Boston[20] and Harry Potter Alliance headquartered in Somerville.
- 2006 - Honk! music festival begins.[30]
- 2007 - Highland Kitchen restaurant in business.[31]
- 2009 - Sister city relationship established with Tiznit, Morocco.
- 2010
- 2014 - Legoland in business.
See also
- History of Somerville
- List of mayors of Somerville, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts
- Charlestown, Massachusetts (from which Somerville sprang in 1842)
- 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 Waltham, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts
References
- ↑ Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 248.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ The History of Prospect Hill, part 2 Retrieved 2014-10-11
- 1 2 3 4 5 Haley 1903.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fiftieth Anniversary 1922.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Greenough 1875.
- ↑ Ueda 1984.
- ↑ Harvard University. First Universalist Church (Somerville, Mass.). Records, 1861-1984: A Finding Aid
- ↑ Catalogue of Books in the Somerville Circulating Library, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1864, OCLC 704271104
- ↑ Greenough 1883.
- ↑ Finding list of the Public Library of the City of Somerville, Mass., Somerville, Mass.: Somerville Journal Print, 1895
- ↑ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ Harvard University. West Somerville Universalist Church (Somerville, Mass.). Records, 1884-1950: A Finding Aid
- ↑ Galpin 1901.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Harvard University. Forthian Club of Somerville (Mass.) Records, 1889-1979: A Finding Aid
- ↑ Boston Evening Transcript - Nov 11, 1899
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 3 Pluralism Project. "Somerville, Massachusetts". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Timeline". Massachusetts: Somerville Community Access Television. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "Community Media Archive". Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Brickbottom Artists Association". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ "reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio", Exhibitions (Boston Public Library), 2012
- ↑ "Somerville Museum". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ "City of Somerville". Archived from the original on November 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "History". Somerville Open Studios. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Somerville, Massachusetts". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ↑ "Photos: Honk! Marching Band Festival In Somerville". The Artery. WBUR. October 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Munch Madness 2015", Boston Globe, retrieved 26 March 2015
- ↑ "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
- 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
- M. A. Haley (1903), Story of Somerville, Boston: Writer Publishing Co.
- "Somerville", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Fiftieth Anniversary of the City of Somerville, Somerville: Somerville Journal Print, 1922
- Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Somerville", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
- 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
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- "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.
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Somerville Circulating Library, Milk Street, 1860s
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Somerville Carriage Repository, est. 1866 (advertisement from 1883)
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Map of Somerville, 1884
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Union Glass Co., est. 1854 (cover of catalog, c. 1911)
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Somerville Pageant of World Peace, July 1915
Coordinates: 42°23′15″N 71°06′00″W / 42.3875°N 71.1°W
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