Timeline of Gloucester, Massachusetts

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Prior to 19th century

19th century

1800s-1850s

First Universalist Church built on Middle Street, 1806 (photo 1930s)

George Henry Procter
Francis Procter
Procter Bros., publishers, est. 1857
  • 1801 - Annisquam Harbor Light erected.[4]
  • 1805 - Daily Boston-Gloucester stagecoach begins operating.[4]
  • 1806 - First Universalist Church built.[8]
  • 1808 - First Baptist Church founded.[4]
  • 1819 - Nearby Essex incorporated as a town.[9]
  • 1821 - Ten Pound Island Light erected.[4]
  • 1827 - Gloucester Telegraph newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1828 - First Parish Church built on Middle Street.[8]
  • 1830
  • 1831 - Eastern Point Light erected.[4]
  • 1832 - Gloucester Circulating Library, Front Street, in operation.[11]
  • 1834 - Gloucester Democrat newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1835 - Straitsmouth Island Light erected.[4]
  • 1836 - Female Charitable Society organized.[3]
  • 1838
    • Methodist Church built.[4]
    • Congregationalist Ladies' Sewing Circle organized.[3]
  • 1839 - Annisquam Universalist Ladies' Sewing Circle organized.[3]
  • 1840
    • Part of Gloucester becomes the new town of Rockport.[4]
    • Population: 6,350.[7]
  • 1842 - Lane's Cove Pier Co. formed.[3]
  • 1843 - Cape Ann Light newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1844 - Town Hall built.[4]
  • 1845 - Odd Fellows Ocean Lodge established.[6]
  • 1847
    • Railway begins operating.[4]
    • Gloucester Mutual Fishing Insurance Co., Gloucester Marine Insurance Co., and Annisquam Mutual Fire Insurance Co. incorporated.[3]
    • Artist Fitz Hugh Lane moves to town.[12]
  • 1848
    • Gloucester News newspaper begins publication.[1]
    • Mount Adnah Cemetery organized.[3]
  • 1849 - Fitz Henry Lane house and Pavilion Hotel[8] built.
  • 1850
    • Burnham Brothers Marine Railway built.[8]
    • Population: 7,786.[7]
  • 1851 - Cape Ann Savings Bank incorporated.[3]
  • 1852 - Company G., 8th Regiment organized.[3]
  • 1853 - Gloucester Gas Light Company in business.[13]
  • 1855
  • 1856
    • Oak Grove Cemetery, Independent Sons of Temperance,[3] and Cape Ann Bank[1] established.
    • Cape Ann Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1857
    • Procter Brothers in business.[14]
    • Citizens' Library Association organized.[3]
  • 1858
    • Police court, Cape Ann Telegraph Co., Congregationalist Young Ladies' Society, and Congregationalist Ladies' Society at the Cove established.[3]
    • East Gloucester Baptist Church built.[4]
  • 1859
    • Gloucester Fishermen's Widow's and Orphan's Fund Society; Sons of Temperance, Annisquam Division; Franklin Club; Congregationalist Ladies' Home Missionary Society; and Band of Hope organized.[3]
    • November 2: "Mechanic Engine Co. had a grand parade."[3]

1860s-1890s

Civil war recruitment poster, ca.1861
Universalist Centenary camp ground, 1870
Seal of City of Gloucester, incorporated 1873
Advertisements for Gloucester businesses, 1882
  • 1860 - Population: 10,904.[7]
  • 1861 - Railway to Rockport begins operating.[4]
  • 1862 - Shute & Merchant in business |url=http://www.shuteandmerchant.com/history-2.html |
  • 1864
    • February 18: Fire.[10]
    • First National Bank in business.[1]
  • 1865 - Freemason Acacia Lodge established.[6]
  • 1866
    • Board of Trade[4] and Cape Ann Horticultural Society[6] established.
    • Cape Ann Anchor & Forge in business.[4]
  • 1867
    • North Gloucester Universalist church active.[4]
    • Sylvanus Smith & Co. in business.[14]
  • 1869
    • May 16: Town Hall burns down.[1]
    • Cape Ann Granite quarry in business.[4]
  • 1870
  • 1871 - Gloucester City Hall built.
  • 1872 - Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library incorporated.[16][17]
  • 1873
    • Gloucester becomes a city.[1]
    • Lanesville Granite quarry in business.[4]
    • YMCA[4] and Cape Ann Scientific and Literary Association[18] founded.
  • 1874
    • Slade Gorton & Company established.
    • Robert R. Fears becomes first city mayor.
    • Procter Brothers circulating library opens.[19]
  • 1877
  • 1880
    • Sea Side Library in operation.[20]
    • Population: 19,329.[4]
  • 1881
    • Gloucester Water Supply Co. incorporated.[1]
    • Harbor Methodist Church built.[4]
    • Gloucester Isinglass and Glue in business.[13]
  • 1882 - Russia Cement Co. in business.[4]
  • 1884
    • Gloucester News and Cape Ann Breeze newspapers begin publication.[1]
    • Tarr and Wonson paint factory built.
    • Magonolia Library Association formed.
  • 1885
    • October 16: North Shore Tricycle Run arrives in Gloucester.[21]
    • Horse-drawn Gloucester Street Railway begins operating.[4][13]
  • 1887 - Magnolia Congregational Church[4] and Gloucester Co-operative Bank[1] established.
  • 1888
    • Gloucester Daily Times newspaper begins publication.[1]
    • Gloucester Electric Co. in business.[4][13]
  • 1891
    • Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust in business.[13]
    • Hawthorne Inn built.[9]
  • 1892
    • 250th anniversary of incorporation of town of Gloucester.[22]
    • Gloucester Towboat Co. in business.[13]
  • 1895
  • 1896 - Eliot house (residence) built.[23]
  • 1897 - Addison Gilbert Hospital built.
  • 1898
  • 1899 - Ravenswood Park established.
  • 1900 - Population: 26,121.[4]

20th century

S.S. Cape Ann ferry, 1905
Gloucester, Massachusetts, 2010

21st century

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pringle 1892.
  2. ↑ Alden Bradford (1843). New England Chronology. Boston: S.G. Simpkins.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Gloucester Directory 1860.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Arrington 1922.
  5. ↑ James Robinson Newhall (1836), The Essex Memorial, for 1836: embracing a register of the county, Salem, Mass.: Henry Whipple
  6. 1 2 3 4 Fisheries 1876.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Historical Materials". Fitz Henry Lane Online. Gloucester: Cape Ann Museum. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  9. 1 2 "History of the Region (timeline)". Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  10. 1 2 Fire Department 1892.
  11. ↑ Catalogue of the Gloucester Circulating Library. Gloucester Telegraph. January 28, 1832.
  12. 1 2 Weinberg 1994.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Report of the Tax Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1899.
  14. 1 2 William Richard Cutter (1908). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  15. ↑ "Universalist Centenary: A City of Tents", New York Times, September 23, 1870
  16. ↑ "Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library Public library". Archived from the original on November 15, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  17. ↑ Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, Inc.: 1830-1930, the record of a century, c. 1930
  18. ↑ "Cape Ann Museum". Retrieved October 31, 2011.
  19. ↑ Cape Ann Advertiser, Sep 11, 1874
  20. ↑ Cape Ann Advertiser, Dec 3, 1880
  21. ↑ Robert L. McCullough (September 2015), "In 1885, adventurous Boston women took to their tricycles", Boston Globe
  22. ↑ Souvenir 1892.
  23. ↑ "T.S. Eliot's old summer home may become writers' retreat", Boston Globe, March 31, 2015
  24. 1 2 "Mass Moments". Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved March 30, 2016. (timeline of Massachusetts history)
  25. ↑ "Gloucester HarborWalk". Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  26. ↑ American Art Annual, Washington DC: American Federation of Arts, 1922
  27. ↑ "Gloucester Stage Co". Archived from the original on November 22, 2011. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  28. ↑ "Gloucester Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  29. ↑ "Gloucester city, Massachusetts". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  30. ↑ "Massachusetts Chief's Tack in Drug War: Steer Addicts to Rehab, Not Jail", New York Times, January 24, 2016
  31. ↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  32. ↑ Federal Writers' Project 1937: "Chronology"

Bibliography

published in the 18th-19th century
  • Jedidiah Morse (1797), "Gloucester", American Gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews
  • John James Babson (1860), History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Anne, including the Town of Rockport, Gloucester: Procter Brothers
  • Gloucester Directory. 1860.
  • "An American Fishing Port". Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. 1: 497–505. May 1868.
  • "General Directory: Gloucester". Essex-County History and Directory. Boston: C.A. & J.F. Wood. 1870. pp. 248–279 – via Google Books.
  • George Henry Procter (1873). Fishermen's Memorial and Record Book: Containing a List of Vessels and Their Crews Lost from the Port of Gloucester from the Year 1830 to October 1, 1873. Procter Brothers.
  • Annual Report of the City of Gloucester, 1874 (ongoing).
  • "Gloucester and Cape Ann". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 51 (304): 465–474. September 1875.
  • Fisheries of Gloucester from the First Catch by the English in 1623, to the Centennial Year, 1876. Procter Brothers. 1876.
  • Benjamin D. Hill; Winfield S. Nevins (1881). "Gloucester". North Shore of Massachusetts Bay: An Illustrated Guide to Marblehead, Salem, Peabody, Beverly, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Magnolia, Gloucester, Rockport, and Ipswich (4th ed.).
  • Gloucester Directory, Boston: Sampson, Davenport & Co., 1882 – via HathiTrust
  • Atlas of the City of Gloucester and Town of Rockport, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: Hopkins. 1884 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
  • Gloucester Directory, Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Co., 1884 – via Internet Archive
  • History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Gloucester, Mass.: James R. Pringle, 1892, OCLC 3714229
  • Gloucester Fire Department: its History and Work from 1793 to 1893, Gloucester, Mass.: Steam Fire Assoc., 1892
  • Official Souvenir, 250th Anniversary, Gloucester, MA, 1892
  • Rudyard Kipling (1896). Captains Courageous. McClure's. (children's fiction)
  • Gloucester Directory, Boston: Sampson, Murdock, & Co., 1899 – via Internet Archive
published in the 20th-21st century
  • Annual Report of the City of Gloucester (ongoing).
  • Memorial of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Gloucester, Mass. August, 1892. Boston: A. Mudge & Son. 1901.
  • James R. Coffin (1910). "Le Beau Port: the sea-browned fishing town of Gloucester". New England Magazine. 42.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bureau of Statistics (1913). "Classification by Cities and Towns: Gloucester". Directory of Massachusetts Manufactures. Boston: Wright & Potter. pp. 152–153 – via HathiTrust.
  • Benjamin F. Arrington, ed. (1922). "City of Gloucester". Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts. 2. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  • Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Gloucester and Rockport", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin . + Chronology
  • H. Barbara Weinberg; et al. (1994). "Urban Leisure: Gloucester: a durable magnet for American painters of modern life". American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-700-6.
  • John Hardy Wright (2000). Gloucester and Rockport. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-3911-9.
  • Mary Ray (2002). Sarah V. Dunlap, ed. Gloucester, Massachusetts Historical Time-Line 1000-1999. ISBN 978-0-9722416-0-1.
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