Timeline of Manchester, New Hampshire
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.
Prior to 19th century
- 1722 - John Goffe settles in Old Harry's Town, in the British Province of New Hampshire.
- 1727 - Tyngstown established.
- 1751 - Tyngstown rechartered as "Derryfield."[1]
- 1788 - Province becomes part of the State of New Hampshire.
- 1796 - Derryfield Social Library founded.[2]
19th century
- 1807 - Canal built by Samuel Blodgett.
- 1810
- Derryfield renamed "Manchester."[1]
- Amoskeag Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company incorporated.
- 1823 - Population: 761.[3]
- 1839
- 1841
- First Unitarian Church built.[6]
- Valley Cemetery laid out.
- 1843 - Mennell's Circulating Library in business (approximate date).[2]
- 1844 - Manchester Athenaeum established.[2]
- 1846 - City incorporated.[1]
- 1846 - Manchester High School established.[7]
- 1849 - Manchester and Lawrence Railroad begins operating.[8]
- 1850
- 1851 - City hosts state fair.[9]
- 1852 - Manchester Gas Light Co. established.[5]
- 1854
- Manchester City Library established.[10][11]
- Manchester Locomotive Works formed.
- 1855 - First Presbyterian Church organized.[5]
- 1863 - Union Leader newspaper begins publication.
- 1869
- Hillsborough County seat relocated to Manchester from Amherst.
- Cathedral of St. Joseph founded.
- St. Joseph Cemetery in operation.
- 1870
- Turnverein organized.[5]
- Population: 23,509.[12]
- 1874 - Ash Street School built.
- 1875 - Women's Aid Home organized.[5]
- 1880
- Manchester Opera House Company organized.[5]
- Ste. Marie Church founded.
- 1883 - Union Publishing Co. incorporated.[5]
- 1885 - Young People's Christian Union organized.[5]
- 1886 - Devonshire Mills incorporated.[5]
- 1887
- 1889 - Saint Anselm College established in neighboring Goffstown.
- 1890 - Elliot Hospital founded.
- 1891 - Swedish Baptist Church organized.[5]
- 1892
- Beech Street Grounds baseball stadium in operation.
- Sacred Heart Hospital founded.
- 1893 - Stark Park dedicated.[13]
- 1894
- 1895
- Manchester Historical Association established.[14]
- Varick Park sports complex in operation.
- 1897 - Weston Observatory built.
- 1898
- Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences founded.[15]
- Manchester Camera Club organized.[5]
20th century
- 1906 - Strand Theatre in business in the former Opera House.[16]
- 1909 - Population: 56,987.[17]
- 1910 - Centennial celebration of city founding.[18]
- 1911 - Adath Yeshurun synagogue built.[19]
- 1912 - Empire Theater built.[16]
- 1913 - Textile Field sports stadium built.
- 1914 - Palace Theatre[20] and Public Library built.[21]
- 1922 - Manchester Central High School renamed, adding "Central".
- 1923 - Manchester High School West established.
- 1927 - Manchester Airport established.
- 1929 - Currier Gallery of Art founded.[22]
- 1932 - New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science (now Southern New Hampshire University) founded.
- 1935 - Amoskeag Mills close.[23]
- 1942 - Grenier Army Airfield dedicated.
- 1945
- State Trade School at Manchester founded.[24]
- Utility Worker's Credit Union formed.
- 1950 - Zimmerman House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- 1954 - WMUR begins broadcasting.
- 1960 - Manchester Memorial High School opens.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy Memorial Coliseum opens.
- 1964 - The Derryfield School established.
- 1966 - Grenier Air Force Base closes.
- 1971 - McIntyre Ski Area opens.
- 1972 - Hampshire Plaza building constructed.
- 1973 - Manchester Transit Authority founded.
- 1974 - New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra formed.
- 1977 - Mall of New Hampshire opens.
- 1980 - Population: 90,936.[25]
- 1982 - Manchester School of Technology established.
- 1985 - University of New Hampshire at Manchester established.
- 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Taichung, Taiwan.[26]
- 1990 - Franco-American Centre founded.[22]
- 1992
- City Hall Plaza building constructed.
- Sister city relationship established with Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany.
- 1998
- 1999 - Robert A. Baines becomes mayor.[30]
21st century
- 2000
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Manchester campus opens.
- Holy Family Academy established.
- 2001
- Civic arena opens.
- Hippo newspaper begins publication.
- 2005
- Fisher Cats Ballpark opens.
- Segway Fest held.
- 2006
- Manchester Daily Express newspaper begins publication.
- Shooting of a police officer.
- 2010
- Ted Gatsas becomes mayor.[31]
- Population: 109,565.[32]
- 2018
- Joyce Craig becomes mayor.[33]
Images
Military parade, Manchester, 1874
Map of Manchester, 1876
Merrimack River flood, 2005
Candidate Hillary Clinton in Manchester, 2007
Currier Museum renovated, 2008
See also
References
- Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 664, OCLC 3832886, OL 5812502M
- Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- Morse 1823.
- "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- Sampson 1905.
- Milne Special Collections. "New Hampshire Towns: Manchester". Collections by Subject. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Library. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- "Central High School". central.mansd.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
- Henry Varnum Poor (1860), History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States, New York: J.H. Schultz, OCLC 11435390, OL 13555505M
- "State Fair at Manchester". New York Times. October 10, 1851. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - Carpenter Memorial Library ... Dedication Exercises. Manchester, N.H.: Manchester City Library. 1916.
- Bell 1863.
- Appleton 1872.
- Charles H. Bartlett (1893), Dedication of Stark Park by the City of Manchester, N.H., Manchester, N.H: Printed by J.B. Clarke Co., OL 14003068M
- Manchester Historic Association (1897), Collections, Manchester, N.H, OL 14001102M
- American Art Annual, 13, NY: American Federation of Arts, 1916, hdl:2027/nyp.33433019831035
- "Movie Theaters in Manchester, NH". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- Baedeker 1909.
- Centennial 1910.
- Stahl 1995.
- "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- "Library History". Manchester City Library. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- "Hillsborough County". Directory. Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- John Mayer (1994). "The Mills and Machinery of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire". IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology. 20 (1/2): 69–79. JSTOR 40968283.
- "Manchester Community College". Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
- "Records of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 1947-present". City of Manchester. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- "City of Manchester". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- "History". Islamic Society of Greater Manchester. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- Pluralism Project. "Manchester, New Hampshire". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
- "Mayor's Biography". City of Manchester, NH. Archived from the original on April 23, 2004.
- "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder, 2010 Census figures
- "Manchester, New Hampshire's 1st Female Mayor Takes Office". 10 Boston. January 2, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Manchester", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- Samuel Newell Bell (1863). Index Catalogue of the Manchester City Library. Printed by C.F. Livingston.
- "Manchester", Appletons' Hand-Book of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1872
- "Manchester City". New Hampshire Register. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1872.
- Maurice D. Clarke (1875), Manchester: a Brief Record of its Past and a Picture of its Present, Manchester, N.H.: J.B. Clarke, OL 23317139M
- Pocket Business Directory and Industrial and Social Statistics of the City of Manchester, N.H., 1879, Manchester: Temple & Farrington, 1879, OL 23367208M
- Manchester Directory: 1883. Boston: Sampson & Murdock. 1882.
- "City of Manchester", Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of New Hampshire, New York: International Pub. Co., 1887
- George Fox Bacon (1891), Manchester and its Leading Business Men, Boston: Mercantile Publishing Co., OL 23365091M
- 1846 Semi-Centennial Compendium of Historical Facts, Manchester, N.H.: Frank H. Challis, 1896, OL 13988380M
- Contributions to the History of Derryfield, New Hampshire: a Paper Read Before the Manchester Historic Association, Manchester, N.H.: William Ellery Moore, 1896, OL 14050532M
- Published in the 20th century
- Manchester Directory: 1906. Boston: Sampson & Murdock. 1905.
- "Manchester", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- "Manchester", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Manchester Historic Association (1910), Centennial Celebration of Manchester, N.H., Manchester NH, OCLC 7811124, OL 23285372M
- "Manchester", Handbook of New England, Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1916, OCLC 16726464
- Manchester Directory. Boston: Sampson & Murdock. 1921.
- Federal Writers' Project (1938). "Manchester". New Hampshire: a Guide to the Granite State. American Guide Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. hdl:2027/mdp.39015021583557.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Manchester, New Hampshire", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
- David G. Stahl (Fall–Winter 1995), "Becoming American: Manchester's Jewish Community", Historical New Hampshire, New Hampshire Historical Society
- Published in the 21st century
- "New Hampshire: Manchester", New England (3rd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2002, p. 476+, OL 24765202M
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