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Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts

Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 19th century

  • 1669 – Common established.[citation needed]
  • 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
  • Massachusetts Yeoman newspaper published in Worcester ca.1820s
  • Dale Hospital, opened in 1864
  • Map of Worcester, 1878
  • Lothrop's Opera House, 1891 advertisement
  • 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
  • "President Taft and Governor Draper passing Worcester City Hall, April 3, 1910"
  • Worcester Domestic Science School, 1914
  • Map of Worcester, 1919
  • High-resolution birds-eye-view map of Worcester in 1878

References

  1. [1]
    Rice 1893.
  2. [2]
    Sanford 1886.
  3. [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. [4]
    "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  5. [5]
    "Children's Literature". Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  6. [6]
    Rice 1884.
  7. [7]
    Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  8. [8]
    Britannica 1910.
  9. [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. [10]
    Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
  11. [11]
    Howland 1856.
  12. [12]
    Homer L. Patterson (1921), Patterson's American Educational Directory, American Educational Co.
  13. [13]
    Howland 1853.
  14. [14]
    Mildred McClary Tymeson. Rural retrospect: a parallel history of Worcester and its Rural Cemetery. Worcester: Albert W. Rice. 1956. pp. 28-33.
  15. [15]
    "Worcester History". www.worcesterma.gov. Worcester City Clerk. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  16. [16]
    Address adopted by the Whig State Convention, at Worcester, September 13, 1848, Worcester: s.n., 1848, OCLC 10603162, OL 13509507M
  17. [17]
    Alfred S. Roe (1901), The Worcester Young Men's Christian Association, Worcester, Massachusetts, OCLC 9642022{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. [18]
    Howland 1865.
  19. [19]
    Howland 1861.
  20. [20]
    Addresses of inauguration and dedication, Worcester, November 11, 1868, Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1869, OL 24651704M
  21. [21]
    Elwood Adams Hardware Archived 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine History
  22. [22]
    "Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
  23. [23]
    Anniversary 1885.
  24. [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. [25]
    Worcester Magazine 1901.
  26. [26]
    Staff Writer (10 June 2014). "President Taft's visit to Worcester in 1910 remembered". Worcester Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 November 2023. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  27. [27]
    "Worcester Magazine, October, 1914 (Vol. XVII No.10)". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14.
  28. [28]
    "Higgins Museum passes into history", Worcester Business Journal, December 31, 2013
  29. [29]
    Stamp, Jimmy (March 13, 2013). "Who Really Invented the Smiley Face?". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  30. [30]
    New York Times 2015.
  31. [31]
    Worcester Mag. "About Us". Holden Landmark Corporation. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  32. [32]
    "About | The Greater Worcester Land Trust". www.gwlt.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  33. [33]
    "Worcester Sister City Program". International Center of Worcester. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  34. [34]
    Worcester Historical Museum. "Museum History". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  35. [35]
    Worcester Women's History Project (18 October 2008). "About Us". Retrieved August 17, 2012.
  36. [36]
    "City of Worcester, MA". Archived from the original on 1996-12-23 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
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    "Blues Agree to Sell Worcester IceCats". OurSports Central. 2004-11-09. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  38. [38]
    Forde, Craig (August 31, 2012). "League shutters Worcester Tornadoes baseball team - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  39. [39]
    "Higgins Armory Museum to close at the end of 2013". Medieval Warfare. 3 (3): 4. 2013. ISSN 2211-5129. JSTOR 48578228.
  40. [40]
    "Sharks Moving AHL Franchise to SAP Center". NHL.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  41. [41]
    "Introducing the Worcester Railers professional hockey team". Worcester Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  42. [42]
    "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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