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Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts

December 15, 2023

The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville, Massachusetts, US.

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 edit

19th century edit

1800s–1860s edit

1870s–1890s edit

  • 1870
    • Somerville Journal newspaper begins publication.[5]
    • St. Thomas Episcopal Church built.[7]
    • Boston and Lowell Railroad connected through West Somerville to the Lexington Branch.
  • 1871
    • City incorporated.[6] [3]
    • Somerville Samaritan Society organized.[7]
  • 1872
    • Somerville city government inaugurated.[6]
    • City seal design adopted.
    • Population: 16,000 (approximate).[6]
  • 1873
    • Public Library established.[12]
    • Luther V. Bell School built.[7]
    • Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church organized.[7]
  • 1874
    • West Somerville Baptist Church organized.[7]
    • West Somerville Congregational Church organized.[7]
    • Sprague & Hathaway Portrait Copying House established.[5]
  • 1876 - Somerville Citizen newspaper begins publication.[13]
  • 1886 - Third Universalist Church established.[14]
  • 1890
  • 1891 - Somerville Hospital founded.
  • 1892 - McLean Hospital relocates to Belmont.
  • 1898
    • Somerville Historical Society incorporated.[15]
    • Historic Festival.[16]
  • 1899
  • 1900 - Population: 61,643.[3]

20th century edit

21st century edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 248.
  2. ^ Robert C. Winthrop, Life And Letters Of John Winthrop: Governor Of The Massachusetts Bay Company At Their Emigration To New England 1630, (Kessinger Publishing, LLC), p. 64.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ The History of Prospect Hill, part 2 Retrieved 2014-10-11
  5. ^ a b c d e Haley 1903.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Fiftieth Anniversary 1922.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Greenough 1875.
  8. ^ Ueda 1984.
  9. ^ Harvard University. First Universalist Church (Somerville, Mass.). Records, 1861-1984: A Finding Aid
  10. ^ Catalogue of Books in the Somerville Circulating Library, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1864, OCLC 704271104, OL 24617840M
  11. ^ Greenough 1883.
  12. ^ Finding list of the Public Library of the City of Somerville, Mass., Somerville, Mass.: Somerville Journal Print, 1895, OL 22094495M
  13. ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  14. ^ Harvard University. West Somerville Universalist Church (Somerville, Mass.). Records, 1884-1950: A Finding Aid
  15. ^ Galpin 1901.
  16. ^ Somerville Historical Society (1898), Ye olden times at the foot of Prospect Hill: handbook of the historic festival in Somerville Massachusetts, November 28, 29, 30, December 1, 2, and 3 MDCCCXCVIII; Margaret MacLaren Eager, director, Somerville Journal, OCLC 11271884, OL 6940324M
  17. ^ Harvard University. Forthian Club of Somerville (Mass.) Records, 1889-1979: A Finding Aid
  18. ^ Boston Evening Transcript - Nov 11, 1899
  19. ^ Frederick A. Wilmot (1915), Somerville Pageant of World Peace: to foster and prophesy world peace; Tufts Oval, Somerville, Mass., July 3 and 5, 1915, West Somerville, Mass, OL 7194701M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ a b c Pluralism Project. "Somerville, Massachusetts". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  21. ^ "Timeline". Massachusetts: Somerville Community Access Television. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
  22. ^ "Community Media Archive". Internet Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  23. ^ "Brickbottom Artists Association". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  24. ^ "reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio", Exhibitions, Boston Public Library, 2012
  25. ^ "Somerville Museum". Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  26. ^ . Archived from the original on 1998-11-11 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  27. ^ "History". Somerville Open Studios. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  28. ^ Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Somerville, Massachusetts". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  29. ^ . Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  30. ^ "Photos: Honk! Marching Band Festival In Somerville". The Artery. WBUR. October 13, 2013.
  31. ^ "Munch Madness 2015", Boston Globe, retrieved 26 March 2015
  32. ^ "Somerville Nordeste Finalize Sister City Agreement". City of Somerville. 2010.

Bibliography edit

  • Somerville, Arlington and Belmont Directory: 1869-70. Boston, Mass.: Dudley & Greenough. 1869.
  • Somerville City Directory for 1873. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co. 1873.
  • Somerville City Directory for 1875-6. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1875.
  • Somerville City Directory for 1883. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1883.
  • Somerville City Directory. Boston: Greenough & Co. 1884.
  • Edward A. Samuels, ed.; Henry H. Kimball, ed. (1897), Somerville, past and present: an illustrated historical souvenir commemorative of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the city government of Somerville, Massachusetts, Boston: Samuels and Kimball, OL 13439695M {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)
  • Barbara Galpin (1901), Publication, no. 1: History of Somerville Journalism; with a list of members, officers, and committees of the Somerville Historical Society, Somerville, Mass: Somerville Historical Society, OL 14036554M
  • M. A. Haley (1903), Story of Somerville, Boston: Writer Publishing Co., OL 23342477M
  • "Somerville (Massachusetts)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 391–392.
  • Fiftieth Anniversary of the City of Somerville, Somerville: Somerville Journal Print, 1922, OL 14007850M
  • Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Somerville", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl:2027/mdp.39015014440781
  • Reed Ueda (1984). "The High School and Social Mobility in a Streetcar Suburb: Somerville, Massachusetts, 1870-1910". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14.
  • "Out of the Shadow of Boston and Cambridge", New York Times, October 2, 2014

Further reading edit

  • Anthony Mitchell Sammarco (2003). Somerville (Images of America: Massachusetts). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0738512907.
  • Somerville Board of Trade (1913). Somerville, Mass.: The Beautiful City of Seven Hills, Its History and Opportunities. A. Martin and Sons.
  • Dee Morris; Dora St. Martin (2008). Somerville, Massachusetts: A Brief History. The History Press. ISBN 978-1596294240.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Somerville, Massachusetts.
  • "Somerville and New England History Collection". Somerville Public Library.
  • Items related to Somerville, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
  • View of Charlestown, Mass., as seen from Somerville. Gleason's Pictorial, c. 1850s.
  • Somerville's Civil War monuments at Massachusetts Civil War Monuments Project

Images edit

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    Somerville Circulating Library, Milk Street, 1860s

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    Somerville Carriage Repository, est. 1866 (advertisement from 1883)

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    Map of Somerville, 1884

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    Union Glass Co., est. 1854 (cover of catalog, c. 1911)

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    Somerville Pageant of World Peace, July 1915

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The following is a timeline of the history of Somerville Massachusetts US 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 Contents 1 Prior to 19th century 2 19th century 2 1 1800s 1860s 2 2 1870s 1890s 3 20th century 4 21st century 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External links 10 ImagesPrior to 19th century edit1630 Charlestown settled 1631 Colonial Governor John Winthrop granted 600 acres of land known as Ten Hills Farm 1 2 3 1703 Windmill built approximate date 3 1714 Peter Tufts House built 3 1756 Powder House in use 3 1776 Grand Union Flag raised at Continental Army fortifications atop Prospect Hill 4 19th century edit1800s 1860s edit 1803 Middlesex Canal begins in operation 3 1804 Old Cemetery established 1821 Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works established 5 1834 Ursuline Convent Riots 3 1835 Boston amp Lowell Railroad begins operating 3 1842 Town of Somerville separates from Charlestown 6 3 Population 1 013 6 1844 First Congregational Society formed 7 1851 American Tube Works established 5 1852 Somerville City Hall built 3 Somerville High School opens 8 3 1853 First Orthodox Congregational Church organized 7 First Universalist Society organized 7 9 1854 Tufts College opens Union Glass Company established 5 1856 First Methodist Episcopal Church organized 7 Round House built 1863 Broadway Orthodox Congregational Church organized 7 1864 Circulating Library in business at Tufts apothecary approximate date 10 1866 Emmanuel Episcopal Church built 7 Somerville Carriage Repository and Manufactory established 11 1867 Perkins Street Baptist Church dedicated 7 1869 Morse Grammar School built 7 1870s 1890s edit 1870 Somerville Journal newspaper begins publication 5 St Thomas Episcopal Church built 7 Boston and Lowell Railroad connected through West Somerville to the Lexington Branch 1871 City incorporated 6 3 Somerville Samaritan Society organized 7 1872 Somerville city government inaugurated 6 City seal design adopted Population 16 000 approximate 6 1873 Public Library established 12 Luther V Bell School built 7 Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church organized 7 1874 West Somerville Baptist Church organized 7 West Somerville Congregational Church organized 7 Sprague amp Hathaway Portrait Copying House established 5 1876 Somerville Citizen newspaper begins publication 13 1886 Third Universalist Church established 14 1890 Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church built North Packing Company established citation needed Population 40 152 3 1891 Somerville Hospital founded 1892 McLean Hospital relocates to Belmont 1898 Somerville Historical Society incorporated 15 Historic Festival 16 1899 Forthian Club for women organized 17 18 First Unitarian Church built 1900 Population 61 643 3 20th century edit1901 Lyndell s Bakery relocates to Somerville 1903 Prospect Hill Monument built 1909 West Somerville Branch Public Library opens 1910 Population 77 236 3 1914 Somerville Theatre built Public Library central building constructed Economy Grocery Store opens citation needed 1915 Pageant of World Peace 19 1916 First Universalist Church built 1922 50th anniversary as city 6 Population 95 000 approximate 6 1928 Northern Artery constructed 1935 United States Post Office Somerville Main built 1936 Mystic Valley Parkway constructed 1941 The Rosebud diner built 1968 Havurat Shalom founded 20 1972 City seal redesigned 1973 Steve s Ice Cream opens 1980 Assembly Square Mall opens 1981 Sister city relationship established with Trincomalee Sri Lanka Bertucci s pizzeria opens 1983 Somerville Community Access Television founded 21 22 1984 Davis MBTA station opens 1985 Alewife Linear Park established 1987 Brickbottom Artists Association active 23 Mixit Print Studio established 24 Joseph P Kennedy II becomes U S representative for Massachusetts s 8th congressional district 1988 Somerville Museum opens 25 1990 Mike Capuano becomes mayor 1991 Candlewick Press established 1998 City website online approximate date 26 chronology citation needed 1999 Dorothy Kelly Gay becomes mayor Leverett Circle Connector Bridge opens Somerville Open Studios begins 27 Mike Capuano becomes U S representative for Massachusetts s 8th congressional district 21st century editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it August 2012 2002 P A s Lounge opens 2003 Won Buddhist temple opens 20 GreenGoat in business 28 2004 Joseph Curtatone becomes mayor 29 2005 Union Square Main Streets organized Union Square farmers market begins Sikh Sangat Society Boston 20 and Harry Potter Alliance citation needed headquartered in Somerville 2006 Honk music festival begins 30 2007 Highland Kitchen restaurant in business 31 2009 Sister city relationship established with Tiznit Morocco 2010 Population 75 754 Sister city relationship established with Nordeste Portugal 32 2014 Legoland in business 2022 Katjana Ballantyne becomes mayor See also editHistory of Somerville List of mayors of Somerville Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville Massachusetts Charlestown Massachusetts from which Somerville sprang in 1842 Timelines of other municipalities in Middlesex County Massachusetts Cambridge Lowell WalthamReferences edit Francis J Bremer John Winthrop America s Forgotten Founding Father Oxford Oxford University Press 2003 p 248 Robert C Winthrop Life And Letters Of John Winthrop Governor Of The Massachusetts Bay Company At Their Emigration To New England 1630 Kessinger Publishing LLC p 64 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Britannica 1910 The History of Prospect Hill part 2 Retrieved 2014 10 11 a b c d e Haley 1903 a b c d e f g Fiftieth Anniversary 1922 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Greenough 1875 Ueda 1984 Harvard University First Universalist Church Somerville Mass Records 1861 1984 A Finding Aid Catalogue of Books in the Somerville Circulating Library Boston Alfred Mudge amp Son 1864 OCLC 704271104 OL 24617840M Greenough 1883 Finding list of the Public Library of the City of Somerville Mass Somerville Mass Somerville Journal Print 1895 OL 22094495M US Newspaper Directory Chronicling America Washington DC Library of Congress Retrieved August 28 2012 Harvard University West Somerville Universalist Church Somerville Mass Records 1884 1950 A Finding Aid Galpin 1901 Somerville Historical Society 1898 Ye olden times at the foot of Prospect Hill handbook of the historic festival in Somerville Massachusetts November 28 29 30 December 1 2 and 3 MDCCCXCVIII Margaret MacLaren Eager director Somerville Journal OCLC 11271884 OL 6940324M Harvard University Forthian Club of Somerville Mass Records 1889 1979 A Finding Aid Boston Evening Transcript Nov 11 1899 Frederick A Wilmot 1915 Somerville Pageant of World Peace to foster and prophesy world peace Tufts Oval Somerville Mass July 3 and 5 1915 West Somerville Mass OL 7194701M a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint location missing publisher link a b c Pluralism Project Somerville Massachusetts Directory of Religious Centers Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Retrieved October 15 2013 Timeline Massachusetts Somerville Community Access Television Retrieved December 30 2015 Community Media Archive Internet Archive a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help Brickbottom Artists Association Retrieved August 28 2012 reThink INK 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio Exhibitions Boston Public Library 2012 Somerville Museum Retrieved August 28 2012 City of Somerville Archived from the original on 1998 11 11 via Internet Archive Wayback Machine History Somerville Open Studios Retrieved October 26 2013 Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei ed 9 May 2013 Somerville Massachusetts Nonprofit Explorer New York ProPublica Retrieved December 13 2013 Meet the Mayors Washington DC United States Conference of Mayors Archived from the original on June 27 2008 Retrieved March 30 2013 Photos Honk Marching Band Festival In Somerville The Artery WBUR October 13 2013 Munch Madness 2015 Boston Globe retrieved 26 March 2015 Somerville Nordeste Finalize Sister City Agreement City of Somerville 2010 Bibliography editSomerville Arlington and Belmont Directory 1869 70 Boston Mass Dudley amp Greenough 1869 Somerville City Directory for 1873 Boston Greenough Jones amp Co 1873 Somerville City Directory for 1875 6 Boston Greenough amp Co 1875 Somerville City Directory for 1883 Boston Greenough amp Co 1883 Somerville City Directory Boston Greenough amp Co 1884 Edward A Samuels ed Henry H Kimball ed 1897 Somerville past and present an illustrated historical souvenir commemorative of the twenty fifth anniversary of the establishment of the city government of Somerville Massachusetts Boston Samuels and Kimball OL 13439695M a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a author1 has generic name help Barbara Galpin 1901 Publication no 1 History of Somerville Journalism with a list of members officers and committees of the Somerville Historical Society Somerville Mass Somerville Historical Society OL 14036554M M A Haley 1903 Story of Somerville Boston Writer Publishing Co OL 23342477M Somerville Massachusetts Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 25 11th ed 1910 pp 391 392 Fiftieth Anniversary of the City of Somerville Somerville Somerville Journal Print 1922 OL 14007850M Federal Writers Project 1937 Somerville Massachusetts a Guide to its Places and People American Guide Series Boston Houghton Mifflin hdl 2027 mdp 39015014440781 Reed Ueda 1984 The High School and Social Mobility in a Streetcar Suburb Somerville Massachusetts 1870 1910 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14 Out of the Shadow of Boston and Cambridge New York Times October 2 2014Further reading edit Anthony Mitchell Sammarco 2003 Somerville Images of America Massachusetts Arcadia Publishing ISBN 978 0738512907 Somerville Board of Trade 1913 Somerville Mass The Beautiful City of Seven Hills Its History and Opportunities A Martin and Sons Dee Morris Dora St Martin 2008 Somerville Massachusetts A Brief History The History Press ISBN 978 1596294240 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Somerville Massachusetts Somerville and New England History Collection Somerville Public Library Items related to Somerville various dates via Digital Public Library of America View of Charlestown Mass as seen from Somerville Gleason s Pictorial c 1850s Somerville s Civil War monuments at Massachusetts Civil War Monuments ProjectImages edit nbsp Somerville Circulating Library Milk Street 1860s nbsp Somerville Carriage Repository est 1866 advertisement from 1883 nbsp Map of Somerville 1884 nbsp Union Glass Co est 1854 cover of catalog c 1911 nbsp Somerville Pageant of World Peace July 191542 23 15 N 71 06 00 W 42 3875 N 71 1 W 42 3875 71 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timeline of Somerville Massachusetts amp oldid 1188514186, 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