Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts history

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The following is a timeline of the history of Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.

17th century [edit]

  • 1669 - Common established.

18th century [edit]

  • 1719 - Town meeting house built.[1]
  • 1733 - Court House built.[2]
  • 1763 - Old South Meeting house built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1786 - Worcester Magazine begins publication.[3]
  • 1792 - Second Meeting House dedicated.[4]
  • 1793
    • Associate Library Company active.[5]
    • Whitney's History of the County of Worcester published.[6]

19th century [edit]

  • 1800 - Independent Gazeteer begins publication.[3]
  • 1801 - National Aegis newspaper begins publication.[3]
  • 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.
  • 1829
    • Worcester County Republican newspaper begins publication.[3]
    • Worcester County Athenaeum and Worcester Lyceum active.[5]
  • 1832 - Worcester Law Library Association active.[5]
  • 1835 - Harris' Circulating Library in operation.[5]
  • 1838
    • P. Young variety store established.[10]
    • Christian Reflector newspaper begins publication.[3]
  • 1840 - Worcester County Horticultural Society formed.[1]
  • 1844 - Worcester Almanac begins publication.[1]
  • 1845
    • Daily Transcript and Worcester County Gazette newspapers begin publication.[3]
    • Classical and English High School opens.[1]
  • 1847 - Worcester Telegraph and Worcester Daily Journal newspapers begin publication.[3]
  • 1851 - Daily Morning Transcript newspaper begins publication.[3]
  • 1852 - Worcester Young Men's Christian Association founded.[12]
  • 1856 - Worcester Employment Society and Highland Military School founded.[1]
  • 1860 - A.H. Word's Select Circulating Library active.[5]
  • 1862 - Free Public Library building constructed on Elm Street.[13]
  • 1866 - Worcester County Homoeopathic Medical Society formed.[1]
  • 1868 - Chamberlain's Circulating Library in operation.[5]
  • 1872 - South End commercial circulating library in operation.[5]
  • 1873 - Home for Aged Women opens.[1]
  • 1875
    • Worcester Society of Antiquity formed.[1]
    • Train station built.
  • 1877 - Irvings base ball team active.[1]
  • 1886
    • Worcester Daily Telegram newspaper begins publication.[3]
    • Hatters' and Furnishers' Association formed.[1]
  • 1889 - Old South Church built, corner Main and Wellington St.[1]
  • 1891 - Lothrop's Opera House opens.[18]
  • 1892 - New English High School opens.[1]
  • 1897 - Worcester Art Museum School established.[9]
  • 1899 - Worcester Business Institute established.[9]

20th century [edit]

  • 1900
    • Population: 118,421 people.[19]
    • Bancroft School established.[9]
    • Bancroft Tower in Salisbury Park erected.
  • 1901 - Worcester Magazine begins publication.[20]
  • 1910 - Population: 145,986 people.[19]
  • 1968 - Worcester Consortium of universities founded.

21st century [edit]

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See also [edit]

Images [edit]

  • Town Hall, corner Main and Front St., built 1824

  • Massachusetts Yeoman newspaper published in Worcester ca.1820s

  • Dale Hospital, opened in 1864

  • Map of Worcester, 1878

  • Lothrop's Opera House, 1891 advertisement

  • Worcester, ca.1905

  • 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

  • "President Taft and Governor Draper passing Worcester City Hall, April 3, 1910"

  • Worcester Domestic Science School, 1914

  • Map of Worcester, 1919

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Franklin Pierce Rice (1893), Dictionary of Worcester and vicinity: a guide to the city, its history, government, institutions, societies, amusements, resorts, street directory, etc., etc., Worcester: F. S. Blanchard & Co. 
  2. ^ The City of Worcester, Massachusetts: its Public Buildings and its Business, 1886; a Brief Description of Points of Interest and Views of Public Buildings, Worcester: Sanford & Davis, 1886 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 17, 2012. 
  4. ^ 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 17, 2012. 
  6. ^ Peter Whitney (1793), The history of the county of Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts: with a particular account of every town from its first settlement to the present time, including its ecclesiastical state, together with a geographical description of the same; to which is prefixed, a map of the county, at large, from actual survey, Printed at Worchester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 
  7. ^ 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 
  8. ^ The heart of the commonwealthL or, Worcester as it is; being a correct guide to all the public buildings and institutions, and to some of the principal manufactories and shops, and wholesale and retail stores, in Worcester and vicinity, Worcester, Mass.: Henry J. Howland, 1856 
  9. ^ a b c d e Homer L. Patterson (1921), Patterson's American Educational Directory, American Educational Co. 
  10. ^ Henry J. Howland (1853), The Worcester almanac, directory, and business advertiser, for 1854, Worcester: Printed and published by H.J. Howland, OCLC 785826916 
  11. ^ Address adopted by the Whig State Convention, at Worcester, September 13, 1848, Worcester: s.n., 1848, OCLC 10603162 
  12. ^ Alfred S. Roe (1901), The Worcester Young Men's Christian Association, Worcester, Mass., OCLC 9642022 
  13. ^ a b Henry J. Howland (1865), The Worcester Directory for 1865, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 18580655 
  14. ^ Henry J. Howland (1861), The Worcester almanac, directory, and business advertiser, for 1861, Worcester: Printed and published by H.J. Howland, OCLC 785827805 
  15. ^ Addresses of inauguration and dedication, Worcester, November 11, 1868, Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1869 
  16. ^ Elwood Adams Hardware History
  17. ^ 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 
  18. ^ Light: A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors. Worcester, Mass.: F. E. Kennedy. 1890. 
  19. ^ a b "Worcester", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424 
  20. ^ 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)
  21. ^ "Worcester Magazine, October, 1914 (Vol. XVII No.10)". 
  22. ^ Worcester Mag. "About Us". Holden Landmark Corporation. Retrieved August 17, 2012. 
  23. ^ Worcester Historical Museum. "Museum History". Retrieved August 17, 2012. 
  24. ^ Worcester Women's History Project. "About Us". Retrieved August 17, 2012. 

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