Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts facts for kids
The following is a timeline of the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
Prior to 19th century
- 1652 - European settlers arrive.
- 1778 - September - Grey's raid.
- 1787 - Town incorporated.
- 1792
- The Medley newspaper begins publication.
- Post office in operation.
- 1796 - New Bedford and Fairhaven Bridge Company incorporated.
- 1797
- first Clarks Point Light built.
- Population: 3,313.
- 1798 - Columbian Courier newspaper begins publication.
19th century
- 1800 - Population: 4,361.
- 1803 - Social Library organized.
- 1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication.
- 1808 - Old Colony Gazette begins publication.
- 1812
- Fairhaven separates from New Bedford.
- Friends' Academy incorporated.
- 1816 - Bedford Commercial Bank incorporated.
- 1825 - Merchants Bank incorporated.
- 1828 - Lyceum founded.
- 1829
- Ash Street Jail built.
- First Baptist Church built.
- 1830
- New Bedford Port Society formed.
- Population: 7,592.
- 1831
- New-Bedford Weekly Register begins publication.
- Dorcas Society organized.
- 1832 - Seamen's Bethel built.
- 1833 - Mechanics Association founded.
- 1834 - United States Customhouse and Rotch house (residence) built.
- 1837 - New Bedford Rural Cemetery incorporated.
- 1838
- September: Frederick Douglass moves to New Bedford.
- New Bedford and Taunton Rail Road incorporated.
- 1840 - Population: 12,087.
- 1841 - Charles W. Morgan (ship) built.
- 1843
- Whalemen's Shipping List, and Merchant's Transcript begins publication.
- Orphans Home incorporated.
- 1846 - Wamsutta Mills incorporated.
- 1847
- City incorporated.
- Abraham H. Howland becomes mayor.
- Horticultural Society incorporated.
- 1849
- J. & W. R. Wing Company in business.
- Palmer Island Light built.
- 1850
- Daily Evening Standard newspaper begins publication.
- Population: 16,443.
- 1853
- Rodney French becomes 3rd Mayor of New Bedford.[1]
- Municipal public library established.
- New Bedford Institute for Savings built.
- 1855 - New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.
- 1861 - Fort Taber built at Clark's Point.
- 1866
- Hathaway & Soule in business.
- Wamsutta Club founded.
- Hutchinson's Circulating Library in business.
- 1867 - Fire Station no.4 built.
- 1871 - Whaling Disaster of 1871
- 1877 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
- 1888 - Fairhaven Bridge Light built.
- 1891 - Charles S. Ashley becomes mayor.
- 1894 - Buttonwood Park Zoo opens.
- 1895 - New Bedford Textile School chartered.
- 1899
- New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge constructed.
- Union Baptist Church built.
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 40,733.
- 1901 - Hotel Waverly built.
- 1903
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society founded.
- Insect invasion.
- 1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
- 1908 - St. Anthony of Padua Church built.
- 1910
- Population: 96,652.
- Local 147 of the National Industrial Union of Textile Workers (IWW) declares a strike against increases in work.
- 1912 - Orpheum Theatre opens.
- 1916 - Whaling Museum opens.
- 1919 - Alvorada Jornal Diario newspaper begins publication.
- 1920 - Population: 121,217.
- 1927 - St. Casimir Parish established.
- 1942 - Airport built.
- 1946 - Your Theatre founded.
- 1962 - Waterfront Historic Area League organized.
- 1970 - Racial unrest.
- 1972
- New Bedford High School established.
- John A. Markey becomes mayor.
- New Bedford Historical Commission established.
- Sister city relationship established with Horta, Azores.
- 1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens.
- 1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established.
- 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan.
- 1996
- New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and New Bedford Historical Society [2] established.
- City website online (approximate date).
- 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.
- 2012 - Jonathan F. Mitchell becomes mayor.
- 2015 - Marine Commerce Terminal begins operating.
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