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Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts

The following is a timeline of the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.

Contents

Prior to 19th century

  • 1652 - European settlers arrive.
  • 1778 - September - Grey's raid.
  • 1787 - Town incorporated.
  • 1792
  • The Medley newspaper begins publication.
  • Post office in operation.
  • 1796 - New Bedford and Fairhaven Bridge Company incorporated.
  • 1797
  • first Clarks Point Light built.
  • Population: 3,313.
  • 1798 - Columbian Courier newspaper begins publication.

    • 19th century

  • 1800 - Population: 4,361.
  • 1803 - Social Library organized.
  • 1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication.
  • 1808 - Old Colony Gazette begins publication.
  • 1812
  • Fairhaven separates from New Bedford.
  • Friends' Academy incorporated.
  • 1816 - Bedford Commercial Bank incorporated.
  • 1825 - Merchants Bank incorporated.
  • 1828 - Lyceum founded.
  • 1829
  • Ash Street Jail built.
  • First Baptist Church built.
  • 1830
  • New Bedford Port Society formed.
  • Population: 7,592.
  • 1831
  • New-Bedford Weekly Register begins publication.
  • Dorcas Society organized.
  • 1832 - Seamen's Bethel built.
  • 1833 - Mechanics Association founded.
  • 1834 - United States Customhouse and Rotch house (residence) built.
  • 1837 - New Bedford Rural Cemetery incorporated.
  • 1838
  • September: Frederick Douglass moves to New Bedford.
  • New Bedford and Taunton Rail Road incorporated.
  • 1840 - Population: 12,087.
  • 1841 - Charles W. Morgan (ship) built.
  • 1843
  • Whalemen's Shipping List, and Merchant's Transcript begins publication.
  • Orphans Home incorporated.
  • 1846 - Wamsutta Mills incorporated.
  • 1847
  • City incorporated.
  • Abraham H. Howland becomes mayor.
  • Horticultural Society incorporated.
  • 1849
  • J. & W. R. Wing Company in business.
  • Palmer Island Light built.
  • 1850
  • Daily Evening Standard newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 16,443.
  • 1853
  • Rodney French becomes 3rd Mayor of New Bedford.[1]
  • Municipal public library established.
  • New Bedford Institute for Savings built.
  • 1855 - New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.
  • 1861 - Fort Taber built at Clark's Point.
  • 1866
  • Hathaway & Soule in business.
  • Wamsutta Club founded.
  • Hutchinson's Circulating Library in business.
  • 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.
  • 1894 - Buttonwood Park Zoo opens.
  • 1895 - New Bedford Textile School chartered.
  • 1899
  • New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge constructed.
  • Union Baptist Church built.

    • 20th century

  • 1900 - Population: 40,733.
  • 1901 - Hotel Waverly built.
  • 1903
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society founded.
  • Insect invasion.
  • 1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
  • 1908 - St. Anthony of Padua Church built.
  • 1910
  • Population: 96,652.
  • Local 147 of the National Industrial Union of Textile Workers (IWW) declares a strike against increases in work.
  • 1912 - Orpheum Theatre opens.
  • 1916 - Whaling Museum opens.
  • 1919 - Alvorada Jornal Diario newspaper begins publication.
  • 1920 - Population: 121,217.
  • 1927 - St. Casimir Parish established.
  • 1942 - Airport built.
  • 1946 - Your Theatre founded.
  • 1962 - Waterfront Historic Area League organized.
  • 1970 - Racial unrest.
  • 1972
  • New Bedford High School established.
  • John A. Markey becomes mayor.
  • New Bedford Historical Commission established.
  • Sister city relationship established with Horta, Azores.
  • 1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens.
  • 1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established.
  • 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan.
  • 1996
  • New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and New Bedford Historical Society [2] established.
  • City website online (approximate date).
  • 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.
  • 2012 - Jonathan F. Mitchell becomes mayor.
  • 2015 - Marine Commerce Terminal begins operating.

    • References

    Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts Wikipedia
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