Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Prior to 19th century
  • 1669 – Common established.
  • 1719 – Town meeting house built.[1]
  • 1722 - incorporated as a town June 14, 1722.
  • 1731 - On April 2, 1731, Worcester was chosen as the county seat of the newly founded Worcester County
  • 1733 – Court House built.[2]
  • 1763 – Old South Meeting house built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1775
  • 1776 – July 14, first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Isaiah Thomas.[3]
  • 1786 – Worcester Magazine begins publication.[4]
  • 1787 – First known printing of the word 'baseball' appears in A Little Pretty Pocket-book, Worcester, MA, by Isaiah Thomas, Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress.[5]
  • 1792 – Second Meeting House dedicated.[6]
  • 1793 – Associate Library Company active.[7]

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

Images
  • Town Hall, corner Main and Front St., built 1824
    Town Hall, corner Main and Front St., built 1824
  • Massachusetts Yeoman newspaper published in Worcester ca.1820s
    Massachusetts Yeoman newspaper published in Worcester ca.1820s
  • Dale Hospital, opened in 1864
    Dale Hospital, opened in 1864
  • Map of Worcester, 1878
    Map of Worcester, 1878
  • Lothrop's Opera House, 1891 advertisement
    Lothrop's Opera House, 1891 advertisement
  • Worcester, ca.1905
    Worcester, ca.1905
  • Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi
    Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi
  • "President Taft and Governor Draper passing Worcester City Hall, April 3, 1910"
    "President Taft and Governor Draper passing Worcester City Hall, April 3, 1910"
  • Worcester Domestic Science School, 1914
    Worcester Domestic Science School, 1914
  • Map of Worcester, 1919
    Map of Worcester, 1919
  • High-resolution birds-eye-view map of Worcester in 1878

References
  1. Rice 1893.
  2. Sanford 1886.
  3. ""Worcester, July 24…On Monday last a number of patriotic gentlemen of this town…assembled on the green near the liberty pole…"". AAS Catalog Record. 1776-07-24. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  4. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  5. "Children's Literature". Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  6. Rice 1884.
  7. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  8. Britannica 1910.
  9. Report made at an adjourned meeting of the friends of the American Colonization Society, in Worcester County, held in Worcester, Dec. 8, 1830, Worcester: Printed by S. H. Colton and Co., 1831, OCLC 14998249, OL 13522714M
  10. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
  11. Howland 1856.
  12. Homer L. Patterson (1921), Patterson's American Educational Directory, American Educational Co.
  13. Howland 1853.
  14. Mildred McClary Tymeson. Rural retrospect: a parallel history of Worcester and its Rural Cemetery. Worcester: Albert W. Rice. 1956. pp. 28-33.
  15. "Worcester History". www.worcesterma.gov. Worcester City Clerk. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  16. Address adopted by the Whig State Convention, at Worcester, September 13, 1848, Worcester: s.n., 1848, OCLC 10603162, OL 13509507M
  17. Alfred S. Roe (1901), The Worcester Young Men's Christian Association, Worcester, Massachusetts, OCLC 9642022{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. Howland 1865.
  19. Howland 1861.
  20. Addresses of inauguration and dedication, Worcester, November 11, 1868, Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1869, OL 24651704M
  21. Elwood Adams Hardware Archived 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine History
  22. "Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
  23. Anniversary 1885.
  24. "Light: A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors". Worcester, Massachusetts: F. E. Kennedy. 1890. OL 14020422M. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  25. Worcester Magazine 1901.
  26. "Worcester Magazine, October, 1914 (Vol. XVII No.10)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
  27. "Higgins Museum passes into history", Worcester Business Journal, December 31, 2013
  28. Stamp, Jimmy (March 13, 2013). "Who Really Invented the Smiley Face?". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  29. New York Times 2015.
  30. Worcester Mag. "About Us". Holden Landmark Corporation. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  31. "About | The Greater Worcester Land Trust". www.gwlt.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  32. "Worcester Sister City Program". International Center of Worcester. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  33. Worcester Historical Museum. "Museum History". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  34. Worcester Women's History Project (18 October 2008). "About Us". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  35. "City of Worcester, MA". Archived from the original on 1996-12-23 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  36. "Blues Agree to Sell Worcester IceCats". OurSports Central. 2004-11-09. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  37. Forde, Craig (August 31, 2012). "League shutters Worcester Tornadoes baseball team - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  38. "Higgins Armory Museum to close at the end of 2013". Medieval Warfare. 3 (3): 4. 2013. ISSN 2211-5129. JSTOR 48578228.
  39. "Sharks Moving AHL Franchise to SAP Center". NHL.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  40. "Introducing the Worcester Railers professional hockey team". Worcester Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  41. "The Massachusetts Pirates, a new arena league football team, coming to Worcester". masslive. 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2020-12-08.

Bibliography
Published in the 18th-19th century
  • Peter Whitney (1793), History of the County of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, OL 6905743M
  • Henry J. Howland (1853), Worcester Almanac, Directory, and Business Advertiser, for 1854, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 785826916, OL 25278704M
  • Heart of the Commonwealth, or, Worcester as it is, Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, 1856, OL 14011107M
  • Henry J. Howland (1861), Worcester Almanac, Directory, and Business Advertiser, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 785827805, OL 25278671M
  • Henry J. Howland (1865), Worcester Directory, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 18580655, OL 25285405M
  • Claflin; Black (1870), Five hundred past and present citizens of Worcester, Mass, G. R. Peckham, OCLC 1600205, OL 14008064M
  • Franklin P. Rice (1884), The Worcester Book: a diary of noteworthy events in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1657 to 1883, Worcester: Putnam, Davis and Co., OCLC 6676339, OL 7202093M
  • 1684, 1884: Celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the naming of Worcester, October 14 and 15, 1884, Worcester, Mass: Printed by order of the City Council, 1885, OL 13988362M
  • City of Worcester, Massachusetts: its Public Buildings and its Business, 1886, Worcester: Sanford & Davis, 1886, OL 14050449M
  • Baynes, T. S.; Smith, W. R., eds. (1888). "Worcester (3.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Franklin Pierce Rice (1893), Dictionary of Worcester and Vicinity, Worcester: F. S. Blanchard & Co., OL 14050717M
  • Franklin P. Rice, ed. (1899), Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Worcester, Mass: F. S. Blanchard, OCLC 404208, OL 14048656M
Published in the 20th century
Published in the 21st century
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