Timeline of Newburyport, Massachusetts

This is a timeline of the history of Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA.

17th-18th centuries

• 1635 - Newbury incorporated.^[1]
• 1761 - Belleville Congregational Church founded.^[2][3]
• 1764 - Newburyport incorporated (formerly part of Newbury).
• 1772 - Marine Society of Newburyport established.^[4]
• 1773
  • Isaiah Thomas opens "a printing house in King Street."^[5]
  • Essex Journal newspaper begins publication.^[6][7]
• 1790 - Population: 4,837.^[8]
• 1793 - Impartial Herald newspaper begins publication.^[6][7]
• 1794
  • Morning Star newspaper begins publication.^[7]
  • Newburyport Woolen Manufacturing Co. established.^[9]
• 1795
  • Political Gazette newspaper begins publication.^[6][7]
  • Merrimack Bank incorporated.^[9]
• 1797 - Newburyport Herald newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1799 - Newburyport Marine Insurance Co. incorporated.^[9]

19th century

Newburyport, 1894

• 1801 - American Intelligencer newspaper published.^[7]
• 1802 - Merrimac Humane Society established.^[10]
• 1803
  • Merrimack Gazette and New England Repertory newspapers begin publication.^[7]
  • Newburyport Female Charitable Society organized.^[9][10]
  • Merrimack Fire and Marine Insurance Co. incorporated.^[9]
• 1804 - Political Calendar newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1805 - Merrimack Magazine begins publication.^[7]
• 1807 - Newburyport Gazette newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1808 - Statesman newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1810
  • Newburyport Mechanick Association and Newburyport Athenaeum incorporated.^[9]
  • Independent Whig newspaper begins publication.^[7]
  • Merrimack Bible Society organized.^[9]
• 1812 - Washington Benevolent Society organized.^[9]
• 1818 - Howard Benevolent Society instituted "for the relief of the sick and destitute."^[10]
• 1825 - Newburyport Hosiery Co. established.^[9]
• 1829 - Newburyport Lyceum organized.^[9]
• 1835
  • Society for the Relief of Aged Females founded.^[9][10]
  • U.S. Custom House built.^[11]
• 1836
  • Newburyport Linnean Society and Newburyport Steam Cotton Co. incorporated.^[9]
  • Newburyport Silk Co.^[9] and Newburyport Ladies' Bethel Society^[10] established.
• 1837 - Bartlet Steam Mills incorporated.^[9]
• 1840 - Pleasant Street Christian Church organized.^[10]
• 1841 - Essex North District Medical Society organized.^[10]
• 1842 - James Steam Mills incorporated.^[9]
• 1844 - Essex Steam Mills incorporated.^[9]
• 1845 - Globe Steam Mills and Ocean Steam Mills incorporated.^[9]
• 1850
  • Ladies' General Charitable Society instituted.^[10]
  • Newburyport Gas Co. incorporated.^[9]
• 1851 - June 18: Essex North Musical convention held.^[9]
• 1852 - Merrimack Library Association organized.^[9]
• 1854
  • Newburyport Public Library founded.^[9]
  • Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.^[9]
• 1855 - Newburyport Library Association organized.^[9]
• 1857 - Mechanic Library Association incorporated.^[9]
• 1865 - Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church organized.^[10]
• 1869 - Merrimack Marine Railway Co. incorporated.^[9]
• 1874 - Newburyport Mutual Benefit Association organized.^[10]
• 1877 - Antiquarian and Historical Society of Old Newbury established.^[9][12][13]
• 1878 - Newburyport Athenaeum organized.^[9]
• 1884 - Newburyport YMCA incorporated.^[9]
• 1886 - Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Men incorporated.^[9]
• 1887 - Newburyport Electric Light & Power Co. incorporated.^[9]
• 1888 - Daily News established.
• 1890
  • YWCA of Newburyport incorporated.^[9]
  • City Improvement society organized.^[9]
• 1896 - Newburyport Choral Union organized.^[9]

20th century

• 1904 - South End Reading Room Association formed.^[9]
• 1906 - Newburyport Homeoepathic Hospital opens.^[9]
• 1917 - Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Newburyport founded.
• 1968 - Newburyport Maritime Society established.^[11]
• 1971 - Market Square Historic District added to National Register of Historic Places.
• 1971-79 - Downtown undergoes major renewal and historic preservation effort.
• 1991 - Actors Studio of Newburyport founded.^[14][15]
• 1994 - Sister city relationship established with Bura, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya.^[16][17]

See also

• Timeline of Massachusetts^[18]

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 Lowell, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts
• Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Waltham, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts

References

1. Robert Noxon Toppan (1885), Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Newbury, Newburyport: The Society, OCLC 9488114
2. "History". Newburyport: Belleville Congregational Church.
3. Daniel Taggart Fiske. An historical discourse commemorative of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Belleville Congregational Church, Newburyport, Mass., delivered on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1858. E.P. Dutton & Co., 1859
4. Acts of incorporation and by-laws of the marine society of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, Newburyport, MA: Printed by Whitton & Hale, 1846
5. Thomas, Isaiah (1874). History of printing in America (2nd ed.). Retrieved 2012-04-24.
6. "Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Massachusetts". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
7. Brigham, Clarence S. (October 1915). "Bibliography of American newspapers, 1690-1820; part 4: Massachusetts (except Boston)". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 25(2): 396-501. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
8. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
9. John J. Currier (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass., 1764-1909, Newburyport: J. Currier (v.2)
10. Sampson, Davenport & Co. (Boston). Newburyport Directory, 1874. Newburyport: Stephen H. Fowle, 1874
11. "About Us". Custom House Museum. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
12. Andrew McFarland Davis (Feb 1893), "Historical work in Massachusetts", Transactions, Colonial Society of Massachusetts
13. "Historical Society of Old Newbury". Retrieved 2012-04-24.
14. "About Us". Actors Studio of Newburyport. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
15. "Member Directory". Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
16. "Newburyport Bura Alliance". Retrieved 2008-05-01.
17. "Out of Amesbury and Newburyport to Africa, and Back", Boston Globe, January 30, 2000, (subscription required (help))
18. Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Chronology", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Caleb Cushing (1826), The history and present state of the town of Newburyport, Newburyport: Printed by E.W. Allen, OCLC 9488117
• Joshua Coffin (1845), A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845, Boston: S.G. Drake, OCLC 1556618
• Euphemia Vale Blake (1854), History of Newburyport, Newburyport, Boston: Damrell and Moore
• Joseph Sabin, ed. (1881). "Newburyport, Mass.". Bibliotheca Americana. 13. New York. OCLC 13972268.
• John J. Currier (1896), Ould Newbury, Boston: Damrell and Upham, OCLC 2482841

Published in the 20th century

• John J. Currier (1902), History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902, Boston: Damrell & Upham, OCLC 2303477
• Oliver B. Merrill. North End Papers, 1618-1880, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Newburyport Daily News, 1906-1908.
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1921). "Newburyport and Nantucket". Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Newburyport", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
• Fanny Louise Walton. Historic nuggets of Newburyport. Newburyport, Mass.: Newburyport Press, 1958
• Stephan Thernstrom (1964), Poverty and progress: social mobility in a nineteenth century city, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, OL 24748995M

Published in the 21st century

• Bethany Groff (2008), Old Newbury, Charleston, SC: History Press, ISBN 9781596294813

External links

• Newbury375.org. Old photos of Newburyport
• Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Newburyport, MA, various dates

Images

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  1805 satirical portrait by James Akin of Edmund M. Blunt wielding skillet against the artist (Worcester Art Museum)
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  Dexter mansion, 1810
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  Newburyport, 1840s
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  Newburyport, 1851
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  Newburyport, 19th century
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  Newburyport, 1880
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  Public library, 19th century
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  Pleasant Street, c. 19th century

Coordinates: 42°48′45″N 70°52′40″W / 42.8125°N 70.877778°W