Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville, Massachusetts, US.
Prior to 19th century
- 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
1800s–1860s
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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]
- 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
- 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 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
- 2012 - Daddy Jones Bar opens in Magoun Square, owned by Somerville native, Dimitra Murphy
- 2014 - Legoland in business.
- 2022 - Katjana Ballantyne becomes mayor.
See also
- 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
- 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.
- Britannica 1910.
- The History of Prospect Hill, part 2 Retrieved 2014-10-11
- Haley 1903.
- Fiftieth Anniversary 1922.
- 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) - 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
- 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
- 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
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
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
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