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Timeline of the history of Montgomery, Alabama
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Montgomery, Alabama , USA.
19th century
1819 - Montgomery incorporated.
1821
Montgomery Republican newspaper begins publication.
[2]
Franklin Society founded.
1824 - Presbyterian church and Montgomery Light Infantry established.
1828 - Alabama State Library headquartered in Montgomery.
[5]
1833 -
Montgomery Advertiser newspaper in publication.[
citation needed ]
1847 - Sons of Temperance formed.
1850 -
Lehman Brothers in business.
1851 -
Alabama State Capitol built.
1861
1864 -
Atlanta -Montgomery railroad destroyed by Union forces.
1867 - Swayne School built.
1870 - Population: 10,588.
1873 - Chamber of Commerce established.[
citation needed ]
1877 -
Second Colored Baptist Church established.
1887 -
Normal School for Colored Students opens.
1889 - Hale Infirmary founded.
[5]
1898 - Confederate monument dedicated.
1899 - Montgomery Library Association organized.
[8]
1900 - Population: 30,346.
20th century
21st century
See also
References
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^
a
b
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a
b
c
d
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a
b
American Library Annual, 1917-1918 . New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918.
hdl :
2027/mdp.39015013751220 .
^ Julie Hedgepeth Williams (2010). Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910 . NewSouth Books.
ISBN
978-1-60306-093-6 .
^
Who's who in the Montgomery Alabama Rotary Club , 1916
^
a
b
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^
"History" . Junior League of Montgomery. Retrieved August 8, 2014 .
^
a
b Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939),
"Alabama" , Radio Annual , New York: Radio Daily,
OCLC
2459636
^ Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993). Significant tornadoes, 1680–1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events . St. Johnsbury, Vermont: Environmental Films. pp. 922–925.
ISBN
1-879362-03-1 .
^ F. C. Pate (United States Weather Bureau) (October 1946).
"The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945" . Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . 27 (8). American Meteorological Society: 462–464.
JSTOR
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^
a
b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960),
"Television Stations: Alabama" , Radio Annual and Television Year Book , New York: Radio Daily Corp.,
OCLC
10512206
^ Robert L. Harris Jr.;
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (2013).
"Chronology" . Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 . Columbia University Press.
ISBN
978-0-231-51087-5 .
^
a
b
American Association for State and Local History (2002).
"Alabama: Montgomery" . Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira.
ISBN
0759100020 .
^ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001).
"Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)" . Zoo and Aquarium History . USA:
CRC Press .
ISBN
978-1-4200-3924-5 .
^
"Montgomery Genealogical Society" . Retrieved August 8, 2014 .
^
"Masjid Qasim Bilal El-Amin" . Montgomery, AL. Retrieved August 8, 2014 .
^ Pluralism Project.
"Birmingham, Alabama" . Directory of Religious Centers . Harvard University. Retrieved August 8, 2014 .
^
"Montgomery Area Food Bank" . Archived from
the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2014 .
^
"Alabama Food Banks" . Food Bank Locator . Chicago:
Feeding America . Retrieved July 1, 2014 .
^
"Montgomery County Historical Society" . Retrieved August 8, 2014 .
^
"Welcome To Montgomery, Alabama" . Archived from
the original on 1997-04-22 – via Internet Archive,
Wayback Machine .
^
"Montgomery now has a sister city" ,
WSFA , April 29, 2009
^
"Montgomery city, Alabama" . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
^
"Alabama" .
Official Congressional Directory . Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2011.
ISBN
9780160886539 .
^
"Montgomery city, Alabama : Population" . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2023 .
^
" '68 was too high': Montgomery police chief addresses 2020 homicide rate" . WSFA 12 News . Ashley Bowerman. Retrieved April 3, 2023 .
^ Bella, Timothy (2023-08-09).
"Men charged in Montgomery brawl had been 'trouble' for riverboat, captain says" .
The Washington Post . Retrieved 2023-08-09 .
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
Montgomery City Directory . Advertiser Book and Job Printing Office. 1859.
Code of the City of Montgomery , Montgomery, Ala: Gaines & Smith, printers, 1861,
OCLC
5390201 ,
OL
6531215M
R.H. Long (1863),
"Montgomery" , Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States , Pittsburgh, Pa.: John P. Hunt
Directory of the City of Montgomery . Perry & Smith. 1866 – via Internet Archive.
Jesse D. Beale; S. H. Phelan (1878).
City Directory and History of Montgomery, Alabama . T.C. Bingham – via HathiTrust. (includes "A Brief History of Montgomery" by M.P. Blue)
Berney, Saffold (1878),
"Montgomery" , Handbook of Alabama , Mobile: Mobile Register print.
M. P. Blue, Churches of the City of Montgomery, Montgomery, 1878.
McCall (1885). Sketch, historical and statistical, of the city of Montgomery .
"Montgomery" , Northern Alabama , Birmingham, Ala: Smith & De Land, 1888,
OCLC
4215188
"Montgomery" , Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States , Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899
Published in the 20th century
Montgomery (Ala (1902).
Code of Ordinances of the City Council of Montgomery .
"Montgomery" , The United States (4th ed.), Leipzig:
K. Baedeker , 1909,
OCLC
02338437
Tintgail Club (1920), Official guide to the city of Montgomery, Alabama , Montgomery: Paragon Press,
OL
24158387M
Thomas McAdory Owen (1921).
"Montgomery" . History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography . Vol. 2. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 1037–1040.
hdl :
2027/mdp.39015078279422 .
Federal Writers' Project (1941),
"Montgomery" , Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South ,
American Guide Series , New York: Hastings House,
hdl :
2027/uc1.b4469723
Code of the city of Montgomery, Alabama, 1952 – via Hathi Trust.
Clanton W. Williams. The Early History of Montgomery and Incidentally of the State of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1976
Brown, Lynda; et al. (1998).
"Chronology" . Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography . Greenwood Press.
ISBN
978-0-313-28223-2 .
Published in the 21st century
J. Mills Thornton (2002).
"Montgomery" . Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma . University of Alabama Press. pp. 20–140.
ISBN
978-0-8173-1170-4 .
Paul T. Hellmann (2006).
"Alabama: Montgomery" . Historical Gazetteer of the United States . Routledge. p. 16+.
ISBN
1-135-94859-3 .
Wesley Phillips Newton (2010). Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946 . University of Alabama Press.
ISBN
978-0-8173-5632-3 .
Jeffrey C. Benton (2013). Respectable and Disreputable: Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery . NewSouth Books.
ISBN
978-1-60306-229-9 .
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