Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts

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

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Prior to 19th century

  • 1669 – Common established.
  • 1719 – Town meeting house built.[1]
  • 1733 – Court House built.[2]
  • 1763 – Old South Meeting house built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1775
  • 1786 – Worcester Magazine begins publication.[3]
  • 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.
  • 1792 – Second Meeting House dedicated.[4]
  • 1793 – Associate Library Company active.[5]

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Rice 1893.
  2. ↑ Sanford 1886.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ Rice 1884.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  6. ↑ 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
  7. 1 2 3 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
  8. ↑ Howland 1856.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Homer L. Patterson (1921), Patterson's American Educational Directory, American Educational Co.
  10. ↑ Howland 1853.
  11. ↑ Mildred McClary Tymeson. Rural retrospect: a parallel history of Worcester and its Rural Cemetery. Worcester: Albert W. Rice. 1956. pp. 28-33.
  12. ↑ "Worcester History". www.worcesterma.gov. Worcester City Clerk. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  13. ↑ Address adopted by the Whig State Convention, at Worcester, September 13, 1848, Worcester: s.n., 1848, OCLC 10603162
  14. ↑ Alfred S. Roe (1901), The Worcester Young Men's Christian Association, Worcester, Massachusetts, OCLC 9642022
  15. 1 2 Howland 1865.
  16. ↑ Howland 1861.
  17. ↑ Addresses of inauguration and dedication, Worcester, November 11, 1868, Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1869
  18. ↑ Elwood Adams Hardware Archived 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine. History
  19. ↑ Anniversary 1885.
  20. ↑ "Light: A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors". Worcester, Massachusetts: F. E. Kennedy. 1890.
  21. 1 2 Britannica 1910.
  22. ↑ Worcester Magazine 1901.
  23. ↑ "Worcester Magazine, October, 1914 (Vol. XVII No.10)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
  24. ↑ "Higgins Museum passes into history", Worcester Business Journal, December 31, 2013
  25. 1 2 New York Times 2015.
  26. ↑ Worcester Mag. "About Us". Holden Landmark Corporation. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  27. ↑ "Worcester Sister City Program". International Center of Worcester. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  28. ↑ Worcester Historical Museum. "Museum History". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  29. ↑ Worcester Women's History Project. "About Us". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  30. ↑ "City of Worcester, MA". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.

Bibliography

Published in the 18th-19th century
  • Peter Whitney (1793), History of the County of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Printed at Worchester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas
  • Henry J. Howland (1853), Worcester Almanac, Directory, and Business Advertiser, for 1854, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 785826916
  • Heart of the Commonwealth, or, Worcester as it is, Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, 1856
  • Henry J. Howland (1861), Worcester Almanac, Directory, and Business Advertiser, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 785827805
  • Henry J. Howland (1865), Worcester Directory, Worcester: H.J. Howland, OCLC 18580655
  • Claflin; Black (1870), Five hundred past and present citizens of Worcester, Mass, G. R. Peckham, OCLC 1600205
  • 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
  • 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
  • City of Worcester, Massachusetts: its Public Buildings and its Business, 1886, Worcester: Sanford & Davis, 1886
  • Franklin Pierce Rice (1893), Dictionary of Worcester and Vicinity, Worcester: F. S. Blanchard & Co.
  • Franklin P. Rice, ed. (1899), Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Worcester, Mass: F. S. Blanchard, OCLC 404208
Published in the 20th century
  • "Worcester Magazine". 1. Worcester Board of Trade. 1901. . See also: v.3 (1902); v.6 (1903); v.14 (1911); v.15 (1912); v.19 (1916)
  • "Worcester", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • "Worcester", Handbook of New England, Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1916, OCLC 16726464
  • Charles L. Nichols (1918), Bibliography of Worcester (2nd ed.), Worcester: Priv. print.
  • Worcester Bank & Trust Company (1922), Historic events of Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, OCLC 2973056
  • Richards Standard Atlas of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. L.J. Richards & Co. 1922 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
  • R. W. G. Vail, ed. (1936). "Worcester". Bibliotheca Americana. 29. New York. OCLC 13972268.
  • Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Worcester", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
  • Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Worcester, MA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
Published in the 21st century
  • "Long a College Town, Worcester Now Looks the Part", New York Times, January 6, 2015
  • Items related to Worcester, Massachusetts, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
  • Map of the city of Worcester, 1889.
  • Clark University; Worcester Art Museum (2017), Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897–1917 . "236 portraits of people of color–- African Americans and people of Native American descent" in the Beaver Brook neighborhood of Worcester
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