Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
Prior to 19th century
- 1652 - European settlers arrive.
- 1778 - September - Grey's raid.
- 1787 - Town incorporated.[1]
- 1792
- The Medley newspaper begins publication.[2]
- Post office in operation.
- 1796 - New Bedford and Fairhaven Bridge Company incorporated.[3]
- 1797
- first Clarks Point Light built.
- Population: 3,313.[1]
- 1798 - Columbian Courier newspaper begins publication.[2]
19th century
- 1800 - Population: 4,361.[4]
- 1803 - Social Library organized.[5]
- 1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1808 - Old Colony Gazette begins publication.[2]
- 1812
- 1816 - Bedford Commercial Bank incorporated.[5]
- 1825 - Merchants Bank incorporated.[5]
- 1828 - Lyceum founded.[5]
- 1829
- Ash Street Jail built.
- First Baptist Church built.
- 1830
- 1831
- 1832 - Seamen's Bethel built.
- 1833 - Mechanics Association founded.[5]
- 1834 - United States Customhouse and Rotch house (residence) built.
- 1837 - New Bedford Rural Cemetery incorporated.[3]
- 1838
- September: Frederick Douglass moves to New Bedford.[6]
- New Bedford and Taunton Rail Road incorporated.[3]
- 1840 - Population: 12,087.[4]
- 1841 - Charles W. Morgan (ship) built.
- 1843
- 1846 - Wamsutta Mills incorporated.[3]
- 1847
- City incorporated.
- Abraham H. Howland becomes mayor.
- Horticultural Society incorporated.[3]
- 1849
- J. & W. R. Wing Company in business.
- Palmer Island Light built.
- 1850
- 1853
- Rodney French becomes 3rd Mayor of New Bedford.[7]
- Municipal public library established.[8][9]
- New Bedford Institute for Savings built.
- 1855 - New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.[10]
- 1861 - Fort Taber built at Clark's Point.
- 1866
- Hathaway & Soule in business.[11]
- Wamsutta Club founded.
- Hutchinson's Circulating Library in business.[12]
- 1867 - Fire Station no.4 built.
- 1871 - Whaling Disaster of 1871
- 1877 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
- 1888 - Fairhaven Bridge Light built.
- 1891 - Charles S. Ashley becomes mayor.
- 1892 - Club of French Sharpshooters, a benevolent and fraternal organization founded by 80 French Canadian residents of the North End, founded.[13]
- 1894 - Buttonwood Park Zoo opens.
- 1895 - New Bedford Textile School chartered.
- 1899
- New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge constructed.[14]
- Union Baptist Church built.
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 40,733.[15]
- 1901 - Hotel Waverly built.
- 1903
- 1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
- 1908 - St. Anthony of Padua Church built.
- 1910
- 1912 - Orpheum Theatre opens.
- 1916 - Whaling Museum opens.
- 1919 - Alvorada Jornal Diario newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1920 - Population: 121,217.
- 1923
- April 2: The Zeiterion theatre opens[19]
- 1927 - St. Casimir Parish established.
- 1942 - Airport built.
- 1946 - Your Theatre founded.[20]
- 1962 - Waterfront Historic Area League organized.
- 1970
- 1972
- New Bedford High School established.
- John A. Markey becomes mayor.
- New Bedford Historical Commission established.[22]
- Sister city relationship established with Horta, Azores.[23]
- 1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens.
- 1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established.
- 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan.[24]
- 1988-89 - New Bedford Highway Killer active
- 1996
- Multi-stage folk festival begins at the State Pier; this event evolves into Summerfest, then New Bedford Folk Festival[25]
- New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and New Bedford Historical Society established.
- City website online (approximate date).[26]
- 1997
- Azorean Maritime Heritage Society organized.
- New Bedford Bay Sox baseball team formed.
21st century
- 2003 - Coast Guard Station New Bedford closes.
- 2006 - Scott W. Lang becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Population: 95,072.
- New Bedford Museum of Glass opens.[27]
- 2012 - Jonathan F. Mitchell becomes mayor.[28]
- 2015 - Marine Commerce Terminal begins operating.[29][30]
See also
- New Bedford history
- List of mayors of New Bedford, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Timelines of other municipalities in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts: Boston, Cambridge, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Salem, Somerville, Waltham, Worcester
References
- Morse 1797.
- "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- Taber 1852.
- Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
- Crapo 1836.
- "Frederick Douglass Chronology". Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- "New Bedford Streets; A Piece of Americana: Rodney French Boulevard - New Bedford Guide". New Bedford Guide. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
- Edward Edwards (1869), Free Town Libraries: Their Formation, Management, and History in Britain, France, Germany & America, New York: J. Wiley, OCLC 1385548, OL 6921178M
- Proceedings on the occasion of laying the corner-stone of the library edifice, for the Free Public Library, of the city of New Bedford, August 28, 1856, New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony, 1856, OCLC 8693441, OL 6999890M
- George H. H. Allen (1923), New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, New Bedford, Mass.: [Reynolds, printer], OCLC 18996332, OL 13522925M
- "Soule", Men of progress: one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: New England Magazine, 1896
- Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- Barcellos, Robert (29 November 1970). "French Sharpshooters disband after nearly 80 years". Sunday Standard-Times. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
The Club of French Sharpshooters was incorporated on Sept. 26, 1892
- "New Bedford-Fairhaven Middle Bridge, Spanning Acushnet River on U.S. Highway 6, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA". Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress). Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- Britannica 1910.
- "Flies invade New Bedford". New York Times. June 9, 1903.
- Upton, Austin. "IWW Yearbook 1910". IWW History Project. University of Washington. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- "An Injury to One an Injury to All". Industrial Worker. 2 (9). 21 May 1910. p. 1.
- "History". Zeiterion Performing Arts Center. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- "Who We Are". New Bedford: Your Theatre, Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis, ed. (2005). "Chronology". To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983893-6.
- "New Bedford Historical Commission". City of New Bedford. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- Reference Department, New Bedford Free Public Library, December 30, 2014
- "Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Society". Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- "History". New Bedford Folk Festival. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- "City of New Bedford Official Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- "New Bedford Museum of Glass". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- First cargo ship arrives New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, New Bedford Guide.com, July 6, 2015
- "$113m New Bedford marine terminal sits largely idle", Boston Globe, August 30, 2015
Bibliography
- Jedidiah Morse (1797), "New Bedford", American Gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews
- Henry Howland Crapo (1836), The New-Bedford directory ... and the town register ... Also, a list of whale ships, belonging to the United States, New Bedford, Mass.: J.C. Parmenter, printer, OCLC 35857446, OL 14030423M
- New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: C. & A. Taber. 1849.
- Herman Melville (1851), "Chapter 6", Moby-Dick, Harper & Brothers (novelist's description of New Bedford)
- New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: Charles Taber & Co. 1852.
- New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: Charles Taber & Co. 1859.
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1871-2. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1871.
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1873-4. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1873.
- Elias Nason (1874), "New Bedford", Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, Boston: B.B. Russell, OCLC 1728892
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1875-6. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1875.
- Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1879-80. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1879.
- Joseph Sabin, ed. (1881). "New Bedford, Mass.". Bibliotheca Americana. 13. New York. OCLC 13972268.
- Robert Grieve (1889), "Nantucket", Illustrated Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Taunton, New Bedford, Fall River (2nd ed.), Providence, RI: J.A. & R.A. Reid, OCLC 10563002
- New Bedford and Fairhaven Directory: 1897. Boston: W.A. Greenough & Co. 1897.
- "New Bedford", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
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- WhalingCity.net. Chronological History of New Bedford, Mass.
- American Experience (2010). "Timeline: The History of Whaling in America". Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. WGBH Educational Foundation.
- Works related to New Bedford, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
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Images
Map of New Bedford, 1851
Hathaway & Soule, est.1866
Advertisements, 1873
Wamsutta Mills in 1876
Aerial view of New Bedford Harbor, 1984
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