Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville, Massachusetts, US.
Prior to 19th century
[edit]- 1630 - Charlestown settled.
- 1631 - Colonial Governor John Winthrop granted 600 acres of land known as Ten Hills Farm.[1][2][3]
- 1703 - Windmill built (approximate date).[3]
- 1714 - Peter Tufts House built.[3]
- 1756 - Powder House in use.[3]
- 1776 - Grand Union Flag raised at Continental Army fortifications atop Prospect Hill.[4]
19th century
[edit]1800s–1860s
[edit]- 1803 - Middlesex Canal begins in operation.[3]
- 1804 - Old Cemetery established.
- 1821 - Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works established.[5]
- 1834 - Ursuline Convent Riots.[3]
- 1835 - Boston & Lowell Railroad begins operating.[3]
- 1842
- Town of Somerville separates from Charlestown.[6] [3]
- Population: 1,013.[6]
- 1844 - First Congregational Society formed.[7]
- 1851 - American Tube Works established.[5]
- 1852
- Somerville City Hall built.[3]
- Somerville High School opens.[8] [3]
- 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
[edit]- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.
- 1900 - Population: 61,643.[3]
20th century
[edit]- 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.[citation needed]
- 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][chronology citation needed]
- 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
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- 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[citation needed] 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.
- 2022 - Katjana Ballantyne becomes mayor.
See also
[edit]- 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)
- Timelines of other municipalities in Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Cambridge, Lowell, Waltham
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Britannica 1910.
- ^ The History of Prospect Hill, part 2 Retrieved 2014-10-11
- ^ a b c d e Haley 1903.
- ^ a b c d e f g Fiftieth Anniversary 1922.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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, OL 24617840M
- ^ Greenough 1883.
- ^ Finding list of the Public Library of the City of Somerville, Mass., Somerville, Mass.: Somerville Journal Print, 1895, OL 22094495M
- ^ "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, OL 6940324M
- ^ 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, OL 7194701M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c Pluralism Project. "Somerville, Massachusetts". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
- ^ "Timeline". Massachusetts: Somerville Community Access Television. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ "Community Media Archive". Internet Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "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 1998-11-11 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "History". Somerville Open Studios. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Somerville, Massachusetts". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
- ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. 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
[edit]- 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, OL 13439695M
{{citation}}:|author1=has generic name (help) - 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, OL 14036554M
- M. A. Haley (1903), Story of Somerville, Boston: Writer Publishing Co., OL 23342477M
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 391–392.
- Fiftieth Anniversary of the City of Somerville, Somerville: Somerville Journal Print, 1922, OL 14007850M
- Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Somerville", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl:2027/mdp.39015014440781
- 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
Further reading
[edit]- Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (2003). Somerville (Images of America: Massachusetts). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0738512907.
- Somerville Board of Trade (1913). Somerville, Mass.: The Beautiful City of Seven Hills, Its History and Opportunities. A. Martin and Sons.
- Dee Morris; Dora St. Martin (2008). Somerville, Massachusetts: A Brief History. The History Press. ISBN 978-1596294240.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Somerville, Massachusetts.
- "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.
- Somerville's Civil War monuments at Massachusetts Civil War Monuments Project
Images
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Somerville Circulating Library, Milk Street, 1860s -
Somerville Carriage Repository, est. 1866 (advertisement from 1883) -
Map of Somerville, 1884 -
Union Glass Co., est. 1854 (cover of catalog, c. 1911) -
Somerville Pageant of World Peace, July 1915
