The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Burlington ,
Vermont , USA
Prior to 19th century
1763 - Town charter granted by the British
Province of New Hampshire .
1774 - Settlement established.
1791
1797 - Burlington Mercury newspaper begins publication.
[5]
19th century
1801 - Vermont Sentinel newspaper begins publication.
[5]
1802 - Court house built.
1804 -
Grasse Mount built, now a campus building of the
University of Vermont
1810 - Population: 1,690.
1813 - August 2: Town besieged by British forces.
1815 - September: University of Vermont begins operating again.
1816 -
Unitarian Church built.
1823 - Methodist Episcopal Church established.
[7]
1825 - LaFayette visits town.
1826 - Champlain Transportation Company founded.
[8]
1827
1829
Lyman block built.
Burlington High School and Burlington Fire Company incorporated.
[10]
1830 - Episcopal Society of Burlington founded.
[8]
1834 - Baptist church established.
[11]
1842 - Burlington Mechanics' Institute founded.
[12]
1845 - Winooski Mill Company established.
1847
E. & E. Lyman in business.
Commercial Bank of Burlington and Burlington Savings Bank chartered.
1848 -
Central Vermont Railway began operating (until 1995).
1849
1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.
[12]
1853 - Medical College established as part of the University of Vermont.
1854
Town Hall built.
Vermont Episcopal Institute incorporated.
1856 - Van Sicklen & Walker grocers in business.
1857
1858
Marine Hospital built.
Burlington Times newspaper begins publication.
[5]
1862 - University of Vermont library building constructed.
1865
Burlington chartered as a city; town of
South Burlington established.
Albert Catlin becomes mayor.
[16]
Vermont Agricultural College incorporated with the
University of Vermont .
Home for Destitute Children founded.
1866 - St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum incorporated.
1867
1869 -
First Methodist Church of Burlington built.
1870
City market building constructed.
E.S. Fullam & Co. in business.
Population: 14,387.
1872
Winooski & Burlington Horse Railroad incorporated.
[17]
Wells, Richardson & Co. in business.
1873
1874 - Park House (hotel) in business.
1877 - Howard Opera House built (approximate date).
1878 - Burlington Commercial School established.
1879 -
Mary Fletcher Hospital founded.
1880 - Population: 11,365.
1884 - Burlington Venetian Blind Company incorporated.
1885
1886 -
Daniel Webster Robinson House built.
1887 -
Cathedral of Saint Joseph completed.
1888 - Burlington Cotton Mills incorporated.
[20]
1889
St. Mary's academy founded.
Baldwin Refrigerator Company established (approximate date).
[8]
1890 - Population: 14,590.
1894
1897
1900 - Population: 18,640.
20th century
21st century
See also
References
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"Fletcher Free Library" , Report of the Board of Library Commissioners of Vermont , 1896
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Blue Book Textile Directory of the United States and Canada . 1901.
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"Movie Theaters in Burlington, VT" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 3, 2013 .
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^ AP:
100% of power for Vermont city now renewable
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
Jedidiah Morse ; Richard C. Morse (1823),
"Burlington" , A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
Zadock Thompson (1824),
"Burlington" , A Gazetteer of the State of Vermont , E. P. Walton,
OCLC
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John Hayward (1857),
"Burlington, Vt." , New England Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Boston: Otis Clapp,
OCLC
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Walton, Joseph Soper (1866). "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register . Claremont Manufacturing Company.
hdl :
2027/wu.89063116057 .
Abby Maria Hemenway, ed. (1867),
"Burlington" , Vermont Historical Gazetteer , Burlington, Vt.: A.M. Hemenway
"Burlington, Vt." , Appleton's Handbook of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour , New York:
D. Appleton , 1870
"Burlington (1.)" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (9th ed.). 1878. p. 550.
"Burlington" . Walton's Vermont Register . Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1877. +
1879 ed.
"City of Burlington" . Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont . NY: Hamilton Child. 1882.
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Published in the 20th century
Katharine Lord (1904).
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About Burlington, Vermont , Burlington: Shanley
"Burlington (Vermont)" .
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Federal Writers’ Project (1937).
"Burlington" . Vermont: a Guide to the Green Mountain State .
American Guide Series . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. +
Chronology
Tom W. Rice (1985). "Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont". Polity . 17 (4): 795–806.
doi :
10.2307/3234575 .
JSTOR
3234575 .
S2CID
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George Thomas Kurian (1994),
"Burlington, Vermont" , World Encyclopedia of Cities , vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO,
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Published in the 21st century
External links
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