Timeline of Lowell, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
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19th century
- 1822
- Merrimack Manufacturing Company incorporated.[1]
- Hugh Cummiskley leads 30 Irishmen up the Middlesex Canal starting in Charleston, Mass to Pawtucket falls in Chelmsford, Ma[2]
- 1824
- 1825 - Middlesex Mechanic Association,[5] Hamilton Manufacturing Company,[3]and Mechanic Phalanx established.[6]
- 1826
- 1827 - First Methodist Episcopal Church organized.[3]
- 1828 - Appleton Company, Lowell Bank, and Lowell Manufacturing Company incorporated.[3]
- 1829
- 1830
- 1831
- 1832 - Lowell Bleachery incorporated.[3]
- 1833 - Police Court established.[12]
- 1834
- 1835
- Boston and Lowell Railroad begins operating.[4]
- Boott Cotton Mills incorporated.[3]
- 1836
- 1838
- 1839
- 1840
- Hospital Association[6] and Lowell Museum established.
- Lowell Offering begins publication.
- Population: 20,796.[11]
- 1841
- Lowell Cemetery established.
- Vox Populi newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1843 - First Wesleyan Methodist Church[3]and Missionary Association established.[4]
- 1844 - City Library,[14] Lowell Female Labor Reform Association,[17] and New Jerusalem Swedenborgian Church established.[3]
- 1845 - Lowell Machine Shop incorporated.[3]
- 1846
- Lowell and Lawrence Railroad incorporated.[4]
- Jefferson Bancroft becomes mayor.[9]
- 1847 - June: U.S. president Polk visits Lowell.[18]
- 1848 - Francis floodgate[1] and Colburn School built.
- 1850
- 1851 - Lowell Daily Citizen newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1852 - May: Lajos Kossuth visits Lowell.[18]
- 1853
- Belvidere Woollen Manufacturing Company organized.[4]
- St. Patrick's Church and Merrimack Street Depot built.[10]
- 1856 - Jail built.[10]
- 1857 - Varnum School built.
- 1863 - High School Association organized.[12]
- 1864 - Lowell Horse Railroad begins operating.[12]
- 1865
- 1867 - St. John's Hospital and Young Men's Christian Association established.[12][20]
- 1868 - Old Franklin Literary Association[19] and Old Residents' Historical Association organized.[21]
- 1870 - Coggeshall's Circulating Library in business.[14]
- 1873 - Young Women's Home established.[19]
- 1875 - Riding Park, and Club Dramatique established.[19]
- 1876
- 1882 - Butler School built.
- 1883
- Public Library opens.[10]
- Yorick Club active.
- 1887 - Board of Trade established.[23]
- 1889 - Opera House built.
- 1890 - Population: 77,696.[7]
- 1891 - Lowell General Hospital founded.[24][20]
- 1893 - Lowell Post Office built.
- 1894 - Normal School[1] and Middlesex Women's Club[9] founded.
- 1895 - Middlesex Village School built.[9]
- 1897 - Lowell Textile School opens.[1]
- 1898 - Pawtucket Congregational Church built.
20th century
- 1900 - Gaity Theatre opens.[25]
- 1902 - Lowell Historical Society incorporated.[26]
- 1908 - Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church built.
- 1910 - Population: 106,294.[7]
- 1911 - Colonial Theatre opens.[25]
- 1917 - Demoulas Market (grocery) in business.[27]
- 1918 - International Institute active.[28]
- 1922 - Lowell Memorial Auditorium built.
- 1924 - Commodore Ballroom opens.[9]
- 1925 - Edith Nourse Rogers becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district.[29]
- 1927 - Victory Theater opens.[25]
- 1930 - Post Office built.
- 1937 - Cawley Memorial Stadium built.
- 1942 - Lowell Ordnance Plant active.
- 1946 - New England Golden Gloves boxing tournament begins.[30]
- 1951
- WCAP (AM) radio begins broadcasting.
- Monarch Diner in business.
- 1970 - Lowell Community Health Center established.[20]
- 1974 - Lowell Regional Transit Authority created.
- 1975
- University of Massachusetts Lowell established.
- Paul Tsongas becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district.[31]
- 1976 - Wang Laboratories relocates to Lowell.[32]
- 1978
- Lowell National Historical Park established.[33]
- Yorick Club goes bankrupt.
- 1979
- B. Joseph Tully becomes city manager.[34]
- Merrimack Regional Theatre active.
- 1980
- 1983 - Lowell Historic Board and Downtown Lowell Historic District established.[37]
- 1987
- Middlesex Community College opens campus in Lowell.
- New England Quilt Museum founded.[38]
- 1989
- Glory Buddhist Temple established.[39]
- Sister city relationship established with Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France.
- 1990
- Lowell Folk Festival begins.[40]
- Baystate Marathon begins.
- 1991
- Richard Johnson becomes city manager.
- University of Massachusetts' Industrial History Center established.[38]
- 1992 - August: Wang goes bankrupt.[32]
- 1995
- Brian J. Martin becomes city manager.
- Chamber of Commerce formed.[41]
- 1996
- Lowell Spinners baseball team founded.
- Stoklosa Alumni Field opens.
- 1997
- Showcase Cinema in business.[25]
- Merrimack Valley Textile Museum relocated to Lowell.
- 1998
- Edward A. LeLacheur Park and Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell open.
- Lowell Lock Monsters hockey team formed.
- City website online (approximate date).[42]
21st century
- 2000
- 2001
- Cultural Organization of Lowell established.[45]
- Winterfest begins.
- Sister city relationships established with Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia.[46]
- 2006
- 2007 - Niki Tsongas becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district.[49]
- 2010
- Patrick O. Murphy becomes mayor.[50]
- Sister city relationship established with Winneba, Ghana.
- Population: 106,519.[51]
- 2014
- July: Fire.[52]
- Kevin Murphy becomes city manager.
See also
- History of Lowell, Massachusetts
- List of mayors and city managers of Lowell, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Lowell, Massachusetts
- other cities in Massachusetts
- Timeline of Boston
- Timeline of Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Haverhill, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts
- Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Newburyport, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Waltham, Massachusetts
- Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts
References
- 1 2 3 4 Federal Writers' Project 1937.
- ↑ Eno 1976.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 March 1849.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Adams 1857.
- ↑ Catalogue of the Library of the Middlesex Mechanic Association, at Lowell, Mass., Leonard Huntress, printer, 1840, OCLC 11765136
- 1 2 3 4 Prescott 1841.
- 1 2 3 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Research". Lowell Historical Society. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
Collections
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Industries 1886.
- 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
- 1 2 3 4 Sampson 1870.
- 1 2 Aaron Brenner; et al., eds. (2009). "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-2645-5.
- 1 2 3 4 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ↑ Anniversary 1886.
- ↑ Floyd 1840.
- ↑ Sue Heinemann (1996). Timelines of American Women's History. Berkley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-399-51986-4.
- 1 2 Cowley 1856.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Sampson 1875.
- 1 2 3 Mike Tigas; Sisi Wei (eds.). "Lowell, Massachusetts". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ↑ Contributions of the Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell, Mass.: The Association, 1873
- ↑ Andrew F. Smith (2011). "Chronology". Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-39393-8.
- ↑ Ellis 1899.
- ↑ Coburn 1920.
- 1 2 3 4 "Movie Theaters in Lowell, MA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ↑ Lowell Historical Society (1902), By-Laws, Lowell, Mass.
- ↑ "To understand Market Basket feud, head to Lowell", Boston Globe, July 31, 2014
- ↑ Stanton 2006.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 69th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1926.
- ↑ "Tradition of City's Golden Gloves", Lowell Sun, January 6, 2016
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 95th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1977.
- 1 2 Boston Globe 1992.
- ↑ Goldstein 2000.
- ↑ "Ex-Lowell official pleads guilty in bribe case", Boston Globe, August 31, 2011
- ↑ "Wang Headquarters Auctioned for $525,000", New York Times, February 17, 1994
- ↑ United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL 14997563M
- ↑ "Lowell Historic Board History". City of Lowell. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
- 1 2 American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Massachusetts: Lowell". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada. ISBN 0759100020.
- 1 2 Pluralism Project. "Lowell, Massachusetts". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
- ↑ "FAQ". Lowell Folk Festival. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Community Links". City of Lowell. Archived from the original on July 23, 2004.
- ↑ "Welcome to the City of Lowell, MA". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Lowell manager's resignation may herald a power shift", Boston Globe, April 30, 2006 – via Boston Public Library
- ↑ "University of Massachusetts, Lowell". Dallas, TX: National String Project Consortium. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ "About Us". Cultural Organization of Lowell. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Court dance connects New England and Cambodia", Boston Globe, August 5, 2001 – via Boston Public Library
- ↑ "Lowell's new city manager rolls up sleeves", Boston Globe, December 28, 2006 – via Boston Public Library
- ↑ "Shree Swaminarayan Temple". Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday. International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
- ↑ "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: 112th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2011.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ↑ "Lowell (city), Massachusetts". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Seven Die, Including 3 Children, in Massachusetts Fire", New York Times, July 10, 2014
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
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- Lowell Directory. Lowell: Benjamin Floyd. 1835.
- Benjamin Floyd (1840). Lowell Directory. Lowell.
- William H. Prescott (1841). Lowell Directory. Lowell: Leonard Huntress, printer.
- Charles Dickens (1842), "Lowell", American Notes, London: Chapman and Hall
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- Published in the 20th century
- Atlas of the City of Lowell, Massachusetts. L.J. Richards & Co. 1906 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- "Lowell", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- George F. Kenngott (1912), Record of a City: a Social Survey of Lowell, Massachusetts, New York: Macmillan Co., OCLC 2048985
- Frederick William Coburn (1920). History of Lowell and Its People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company – via HathiTrust.
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- Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory, 1980
- Lowell Neighborhoods: Historical and Architectural Survey, 1981
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- Published in the 21st century
- Carolyn M. Goldstein (2000). "Many Voices, True Stories, and the Experiences We Are Creating in Industrial History Museums: Reinterpreting Lowell, Massachusetts". Public Historian. 22. JSTOR 3379583.
- "Around Boston: Lowell", New England (3rd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2002, p. 172+, OL 24765202M
- Cathy Stanton (2006). The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-547-9.
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