Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts

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

YouTube Encyclopedic

1/4
Views:
3 514 004
4 078
393
25 887

Transcription

Prior to 19th century

Prior to 1602 - the Wampanoags, 'People of the Morning Light,' an Algonquian-speaking Native American group, inhabit the area from Narragansett Bay to the tip of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket^[1]^: 243
1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold an English privateer visits the site of New Bedford.^[2]
1652 - In the Dartmouth Purchase, John Winslow, William Bradford, Myles Standish, Thomas Southworth, and John Cooke purchase from Wasamequin (Massassoit) and his son Wamsutta a territory that would come to be known as Old Dartmouth, which included the current towns of Dartmouth, New Bedford, Acushnet, Fairhaven, and Westport
ca.1665 - Influx of Quakers.^[2]
1760 - Village proper established.^[2]
1778 - September - Grey's raid by the British against American coastal communities.^[2]
1787 - Town incorporated.^[3]
1792
- The Medley newspaper begins publication.^[4]
- Post office in operation.
1796 - New Bedford and Fairhaven Bridge Company incorporated.^[5]
1797
- first Clarks Point Light built.
- Population: 3,313.^[3]
1798 - Columbian Courier newspaper begins publication.^[4]

19th century

1800 - Population: 4,361.^[6]
1803 - Social Library organized.^[7]
1804 - 59 whaling vessels were registered from New Bedford.^[2]
1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication.^[4]
1808 - Old Colony Gazette begins publication.^[4]
1812
- Fairhaven separates from New Bedford.^[7]
- Friends' Academy incorporated.^[5]

1816 - Bedford Commercial Bank incorporated.^[7]
1822 - New Bedford Meeting House built.
1825 - Merchants Bank incorporated.^[7]
1828 - Lyceum founded.^[7]
1829
- Ash Street Jail built.
- First Baptist Church built.
late 1820's - Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts voiced by Quakers.
1830
- New Bedford Port Society formed.^[5]
- Population: 7,592.^[7]
1831
- New-Bedford Weekly Register begins publication.^[4]
- Dorcas Society organized.^[5]
1832 - Seamen's Bethel built.^[2]
1833 - Mechanics Association founded.^[7]
1834 - United States Customhouse and Rotch house (residence) built.
1837 - New Bedford Rural Cemetery incorporated.^[5]
1838
- September: Frederick Douglass moves to New Bedford.^[8]
- New Bedford and Taunton Rail Road incorporated.^[5]
1840 - Population: 12,087.^[6]
1841 - Charles W. Morgan (ship) built.
1843
- Whalemen's Shipping List, and Merchant's Transcript begins publication.^[4]
- Orphans Home incorporated.^[5]
1846 - Wamsutta Mills incorporated.^[5]
1847
- City incorporated.^[2]
- Abraham H. Howland becomes mayor.
- Horticultural Society incorporated.^[5]
- Joseph Grinnell built the first cotton mill.^[2]
1848 - Beginning of Arctic Whaling.^[2]
1849
- J. & W. R. Wing Company in business.
- Palmer Island Light built.
1850
- Daily Evening Standard newspaper begins publication.^[4]^[2]
- Population: 16,443.^[6]
1853
- Rodney French becomes 3rd Mayor of New Bedford.[1]^[9]
- Municipal public library established.^[2]^[10]^[11]
- New Bedford Institute for Savings built.
1855 - New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.^[12]
1861 - Fort Rodman aka Fort Taber, built at Clark's Point.^[2]
1866

- Hathaway & Soule in business.^[13]
- Wamsutta Club founded.
- Hutchinson's Circulating Library in business.^[14]
1867 - Fire Station no.4 built, now houses New Bedford Fire Museum.
1871
- St. John the Baptist Church founded.
- Whaling disaster of 1871
1877 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
1884 - St. Luke's Hospital founded.
1888 - Fairhaven Bridge Light built.
1890 - Population: 40,733.^[2]
1891 - Charles S. Ashley becomes mayor.
1892 - Club of French Sharpshooters, a benevolent and fraternal organization founded by 80 French Canadian residents of the North End, founded.^[15]
1894 - Buttonwood Park Zoo opens.
1895
- St. Anthony of Padua Church founded.
- New Bedford Textile School founded.
1899
- New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge constructed.^[16]
- Union Baptist Church built.
1900 - Population: 62,442.^[2]

20th century

1901 - Hotel Waverly built.
1903
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society founded.^[2]
- New Bedford Whaling Museum established.
- Insect invasion.^[17]
1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
1906 - Completion of harbour improvements.^[2]
1908 - St. Anthony of Padua Church built.
1910
- Population: 96,652.^[2]
- Local 147 of the National Industrial Union of Textile Workers (IWW) declares a strike against increases in work.^[18]^[19]
1912 - Orpheum Theatre opens.
1916 - Whaling Museum opens.
1919 - Alvorada Jornal Diario newspaper begins publication.^[4]
1920 - Population: 121,217.
1923 - April 2: The Zeiterion theatre opens^[20]
1927 - St. Casimir Parish established.
1942 - Airport built.
1946 - Your Theatre founded.^[21]
1958 - Northeast Airlines Flight 285 crashes at New Bedford Airport.
1962 - Waterfront Historic Area League organized.
1970
- Club of French Sharpshooters, a French Canadian benevolent and fraternal organization, disbands^[15]
- Racial unrest.^[22]
1972
- New Bedford High School established.
- John A. Markey becomes mayor.
- New Bedford Historical Commission established.^[23]
- Sister city relationship established with Horta, Azores.^[24]
1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens.
1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established.
1985 - A labor strike breaks out between fishermen and a trade association of shipowners.
1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan.^[25]
1988-89 - New Bedford Highway Killer active
1996
- Multi-stage folk festival begins at the State Pier; this event evolves into Summerfest, then New Bedford Folk Festival^[26]
- New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and New Bedford Historical Society [2] established.
- City website online (approximate date).^[27]
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.^[28]
2012 - Jonathan F. Mitchell becomes mayor.^[29]
2015 - Marine Commerce Terminal begins operating.^[30]^[31]

References

^ Murphy, Justin D. (2022). American Indian Wars: the essential reference guide. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, An imprint of ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-7509-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Britannica 1910.
^ ^a ^b Morse 1797.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Taber 1852.
^ ^a ^b ^c Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Crapo 1836.
^ "Frederick Douglass Chronology". Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
^ "New Bedford Streets; A Piece of Americana: Rodney French Boulevard - New Bedford Guide". New Bedford Guide. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
^ Edward Edwards (1869), Free Town Libraries: Their Formation, Management, and History in Britain, France, Germany & America, New York: J. Wiley, OCLC 1385548, OL 6921178M
^ Proceedings on the occasion of laying the corner-stone of the library edifice, for the Free Public Library, of the city of New Bedford, August 28, 1856, New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony, 1856, OCLC 8693441, OL 6999890M
^ George H. H. Allen (1923), New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, New Bedford, Mass.: [Reynolds, printer], OCLC 18996332, OL 13522925M
^ "Soule", Men of progress: one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: New England Magazine, 1896
^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^ ^a ^b Barcellos, Robert (29 November 1970). "French Sharpshooters disband after nearly 80 years". Sunday Standard-Times. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019. The Club of French Sharpshooters was incorporated on Sept. 26, 1892
^ "New Bedford-Fairhaven Middle Bridge, Spanning Acushnet River on U.S. Highway 6, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA". Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress). Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^ "Flies invade New Bedford". New York Times. June 9, 1903.
^ Upton, Austin. "IWW Yearbook 1910". IWW History Project. University of Washington. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
^ "An Injury to One an Injury to All". Industrial Worker. Vol. 2, no. 9. 21 May 1910. p. 1.
^ "History". Zeiterion Performing Arts Center. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
^ "Who We Are". New Bedford: Your Theatre, Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
^ Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis, ed. (2005). "Chronology". To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983893-6.
^ "New Bedford Historical Commission". City of New Bedford. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^ Reference Department, New Bedford Free Public Library, December 30, 2014
^ "Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Society". Retrieved December 30, 2014.
^ "History". New Bedford Folk Festival. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
^ "City of New Bedford Official Home Page". Archived from the original on 1996-12-21 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
^ "New Bedford Museum of Glass". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
^ First cargo ship arrives New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, New Bedford Guide.com, July 6, 2015
^ "$113m New Bedford marine terminal sits largely idle", Boston Globe, August 30, 2015

Bibliography

Jedidiah Morse (1797), "New Bedford", American Gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews
Henry Howland Crapo (1836), The New-Bedford directory ... and the town register ... Also, a list of whale ships, belonging to the United States, New Bedford, Mass.: J.C. Parmenter, printer, OCLC 35857446, OL 14030423M
New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: C. & A. Taber. 1849.
Herman Melville (1851), "Chapter 6", Moby-Dick, Harper & Brothers (novelist's description of New Bedford)
New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: Charles Taber & Co. 1852.
New Bedford Directory. New Bedford, Mass.: Charles Taber & Co. 1859.
Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1871-2. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1871.
Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1873-4. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1873.
Elias Nason (1874), "New Bedford", Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, Boston: B.B. Russell, OCLC 1728892
Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1875-6. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1875.
Directory ... City of New Bedford, for 1879-80. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1879.
Joseph Sabin, ed. (1881). "New Bedford, Mass.". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 13. New York. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Robert Grieve (1889), "Nantucket", Illustrated Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Taunton, New Bedford, Fall River (2nd ed.), Providence, RI: J.A. & R.A. Reid, OCLC 10563002
New Bedford and Fairhaven Directory: 1897. Boston: W.A. Greenough & Co. 1897.
"New Bedford" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1910.