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The following is a timeline of the history of Lawrence, Massachusetts in the United States.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

19th century

  • 1845
  • 1846
  • 1847
    • Town of Lawrence incorporated from Methuen and Andover; named after businessman Abbott Lawrence,[3]
    • Lawrence Courier newspaper in publication.[4]
    • Bellevue Cemetery established.
    • Franklin Library Association formed.[5]
    • First Baptist Church, First Free Baptist Church, First Unitarian Society, Church of the Good Shepherd, and First Methodist Episcopal Church established[2]
  • 1848
  • 1849
    • Manchester and Lawrence Railroad begins operating.
    • Lawrence Sentinel newspaper begins publication.[4]
    • Central Church organized.[2]
    • Atlantic Cotton Mills starts in business.[9]
    • Lawrence Gas Company formed.[9]
    • Lawrence Brass Band formed.[9]
  • 1850 - Population: 8,282.
  • 1851 - Grace Episcopal Church built.
  • 1853
    • City of Lawrence incorporated as a municipal government.
    • Charles S. Storrow becomes first city mayor.[10]
    • Lawrence Duck Company in business.[9]
    • Garden Street Methodist Episcopal Church organized as a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[2]
  • 1854
    • Additional part of Methuen annexed to the City of Lawrence.[3]
    • Pacific Mills starts operating bin business.[9][11]
    • Lawrence Paper Company incorporated.[12][13]
  • 1855 - Pemberton Company in business.[9]
  • 1860
  • 1861 - Massachusetts state militia called up by Governor in response to proclamation by 16th President Abraham Lincoln of a state of rebellion in the South following firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor in South Carolina Confederate forces on April 12. Sixth Regiment earliest to respond with men from Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Stoneham, Boston. Heads south by train and is attacked by mobs of Southern sympathizers in Baltimore along watfront Street while being pulled through on horse cars and later marching between the President Street Station of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad on the east of the harbor to the Camden Street Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on way to the national capital at Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 19. Four soldiers killed and numerous wounded and among Baltimorean civilians as city police and officials attempt to escort troops. Considered the "First Bloodshed of the Civil War".
  • Second Baptist Church established.[2]
  • 1864 - Moseley Truss Bridge built.
  • 1865
    • Eliot Congregational Church organized.[2]
    • Arlington Mills in business.[14][15]
    • Wright Manufacturing Co. formed.[2]
  • 1867 - Lawrence Flyer and Spindle Works in business.[16]
  • 1868
    • Lawrence Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.
    • South Congregational Church and First Presbyterian Church established.[2]
  • 1871
    • Archibald Wheel Co. incorporated.[2]
    • Parker Street Methodist Episcopal Church and St. Anne's Church organized.[2]
  • 1872 - Free Public Library established[17]
  • 1873 - St. Laurence's Church dedicated.[2]
  • 1876 - [YMCA formed.[2]
  • 1877
    • Lawrence Bleachery established.[16]
    • Tower Hill Congregational Church organized.[2]
  • 1878 - German Methodist Episcopal Church organized.[2]
  • 1879
    • Parts of Andover and North Andover annexed to Lawrence.[3]
    • German Presbyterian Church organized.[2]
    • Lawrence Bicycle Club formed.[2]
  • 1880
    • Globe Worsted Co. incorporated.[2]
    • Bodwell Street M.E. Church organized.[2]
  • 1881
    • Lawrence Line Company incorporated.[9]
    • Munroe Felt and Paper Company incorporated.[6]
    • Merrimac Paper Company incorporated.[9]
  • 1882
    • L'Institute Canadien Francais founded.[2]
    • Stanley Manufacturing Co. incorporated.[2]
  • 1884 - Emmons Loom Harness Company organized.[9]
  • 1887 - Lawrence Experiment Station established by the Massachusetts State Board of Health.
  • 1888
    • Duck Bridge built.[18]
    • Board of Trade organized.[19]
  • 1896 - High Service Water Tower built
  • 1890
  • 1899 - 20,899 people employed in manufacturing in Lawrence.[20]

20th century

Climatic Research Laboratory for United States Army in operation.

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ Dorothy Truman (Winter 1986). "The Museum of American Textile History: Archival Sources for Business History". Business History Review. 60.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Lawrence Directory: 1883. Boston: Sampson, Davenport & Co.
  3. ^ a b c "Lawrence", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  5. ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  6. ^ a b Lawrence Public Library Special Collections. "Queen City Massachusetts (blog)". Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  7. ^ Peter M. Molloy (Winter 1980). "Nineteenth-Century Hydropower: Design and Construction of Lawrence Dam, 1845-1848". Winterthur Portfolio. 15.
  8. ^ A Sketch of the Mills of the American Woolen Company, American Woolen Co., 1901, OCLC 3286127
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i The Lawrence Gazetteer, containing a record of the important events in Lawrence and vicinity from 1845 to 1894, Lawrence, Mass.: Charles G. Merrill, 1894, OCLC 8678542
  10. ^ Peter A. Ford (2000). ""Father of the Whole Enterprise": Charles S. Storrow and the Making of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1860". Massachusetts Historical Review. 2. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 81 (help)
  11. ^ Pacific Mills (1918), The manufacture, dyeing, printing, and finishing of textiles, Lawrence, Mass, OCLC 15206587{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Massachusetts Register for the year 1855.
  13. ^ "Ballou's Pictorial". 1855.
  14. ^ Arlington Mills, 1865-1925, Norwood, Mass: Priv. print. by the Plimpton Press, 1925
  15. ^ The Arlington Mills, Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1891
  16. ^ a b D. Hamilton Hurd (1888), "Lawrence", History of Essex County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., OCLC 3106590 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ "History of the Lawrence Public Library". Lawrence Public Library. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  18. ^ "Duck Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Union Street, Lawrence, Essex County, MA". Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress). Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  19. ^ a b c Maurice B. Dorgan (1918), Lawrence yesterday and today: 1845-1918, Lawrence, Mass.: Press of Dick & Trumpold, OCLC 10625548
  20. ^ a b William H. Wallace (Oct 1961). "Merrimack Valley Manufacturing: Past and Present". Economic Geography. 37.
  21. ^ "Lawrence Municipal Airport". Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  22. ^ Lawrence History Center. "Lawrence History Timeline". Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  23. ^ Jay Atkinson (Feb 2012). "Lawrence, MA: City of the Damned". Boston Magazine. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  24. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  25. ^ "Eagle Tribune". March 23, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  26. ^ "New York Times". May 29, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century
  • Jeremiah Spofford (1860), "Lawrence", Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of Massachusetts (2nd ed.), Haverhill: E.G. Frothingham {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • J. F. C. Hayes (1868), History of the city of Lawrence, Lawrence, Mass: E.D. Green, OCLC 3700952
  • "Lawrence Business Directory". Merrimack River Directory, for 1872 & 1873, containing a complete business directory of Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Amesbury and Salisbury, and Newburyport. Boston: Greenough, Jones. 1872. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • H. A. Wadsworth (1880), History of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Lawrence, Mass.: Printed by Hammon Reed, Lawrence Eagle Steam Job Print. Office, OCLC 7185272
  • "City of Lawrence", Industries of Massachusetts: historical and descriptive review of Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Gloucester, Newburyport, and Amesbury, and their leading manufacturers and merchants, New York: International Pub. Co., 1886, OCLC 19803267 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
Published in the 20th century
  • Benjamin F. Arrington (1922), "City of Lawrence", Municipal history of Essex County in Massachusetts, New York: Lewis historical publishing company, OCLC 1619460 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
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  • Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass., 1868
    Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass., 1868
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    Map of Lawrence, 1876
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    Lawrence Common, 1877
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    Pacific Mills, c. 19th century
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    Aerial view of Merrimack River and Lawrence, 2010
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