The following is a timeline of the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
Prior to 19th century
- Prior to 1602 - the Wampanoags, 'People of the Morning Light,' an Algonquian-speaking Native American group, inhabit the area from Narragansett Bay to the tip of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket [1]: 243
- 1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold an English privateer visits the site of New Bedford. [2]
- 1652 - In the Dartmouth Purchase, John Winslow, William Bradford, Myles Standish, Thomas Southworth, and John Cooke purchase from Wasamequin (Massassoit) and his son Wamsutta a territory that would come to be known as Old Dartmouth, which included the current towns of Dartmouth, New Bedford, Acushnet, Fairhaven, and Westport
- ca.1665 - Influx of Quakers. [2]
- 1760 - Village proper established. [2]
- 1778 - September - Grey's raid by the British against American coastal communities. [2]
- 1787 - Town incorporated. [3]
- 1792
- The Medley newspaper begins publication. [4]
- Post office in operation.
- 1796 - New Bedford and Fairhaven Bridge Company incorporated. [5]
- 1797
- first Clarks Point Light built.
- Population: 3,313. [3]
- 1798 - Columbian Courier newspaper begins publication. [4]
19th century
- 1800 - Population: 4,361. [6]
- 1803 - Social Library organized. [7]
- 1804 - 59 whaling vessels were registered from New Bedford. [2]
- 1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication. [4]
- 1808 - Old Colony Gazette begins publication. [4]
- 1812
- 1816 - Bedford Commercial Bank incorporated. [7]
- 1822 - New Bedford Meeting House built.
- 1825 - Merchants Bank incorporated. [7]
- 1828 - Lyceum founded. [7]
- 1829
- Ash Street Jail built.
- First Baptist Church built.
- late 1820's - Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts voiced by Quakers.
- 1830
- 1831
- 1832 - Seamen's Bethel built. [2]
- 1833 - Mechanics Association founded. [7]
- 1834 - United States Customhouse and Rotch house (residence) built.
- 1837 - New Bedford Rural Cemetery incorporated. [5]
- 1838
- September: Frederick Douglass moves to New Bedford. [8]
- New Bedford and Taunton Rail Road incorporated. [5]
- 1840 - Population: 12,087. [6]
- 1841 - Charles W. Morgan (ship) built.
- 1843
- 1846 - Wamsutta Mills incorporated. [5]
- 1847
- City incorporated. [2]
- Abraham H. Howland becomes mayor.
- Horticultural Society incorporated. [5]
- Joseph Grinnell built the first cotton mill. [2]
- 1848 - Beginning of Arctic Whaling. [2]
- 1849
- J. & W. R. Wing Company in business.
- Palmer Island Light built.
- 1850
- Daily Evening Standard newspaper begins publication. [4] [2]
- Population: 16,443. [6]
- 1853
- 1855 - New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated. [12]
- 1861 - Fort Rodman aka Fort Taber, built at Clark's Point. [2]
- 1866
- Hathaway & Soule in business. [13]
- Wamsutta Club founded.
- Hutchinson's Circulating Library in business. [14]
- 1867 - Fire Station no.4 built, now houses New Bedford Fire Museum.
- 1871
- 1877 - Church of the Sacred Heart built.
- 1884 - St. Luke's Hospital founded.
- 1888 - Fairhaven Bridge Light built.
- 1890 - Population: 40,733. [2]
- 1891 - Charles S. Ashley becomes mayor.
- 1892 - Club of French Sharpshooters, a benevolent and fraternal organization founded by 80 French Canadian residents of the North End, founded. [15]
- 1894 - Buttonwood Park Zoo opens.
- 1895
- St. Anthony of Padua Church founded.
- New Bedford Textile School founded.
- 1899
- New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge constructed. [16]
- Union Baptist Church built.
- 1900 - Population: 62,442. [2]
20th century
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- 1901 - Hotel Waverly built.
- 1903
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society founded. [2]
- New Bedford Whaling Museum established.
- Insect invasion. [17]
- 1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
- 1906 - Completion of harbour improvements. [2]
- 1908 - St. Anthony of Padua Church built.
- 1910
- Population: 96,652. [2]
- Local 147 of the National Industrial Union of Textile Workers ( IWW) declares a strike against increases in work. [18] [19]
- 1912 - Orpheum Theatre opens.
- 1916 - Whaling Museum opens.
- 1919 - Alvorada Jornal Diario newspaper begins publication. [4]
- 1920 - Population: 121,217.
- 1923 - April 2: The Zeiterion theatre opens [20]
- 1927 - St. Casimir Parish established.
- 1942 - Airport built.
- 1946 - Your Theatre founded. [21]
- 1958 - Northeast Airlines Flight 285 crashes at New Bedford Airport.
- 1962 - Waterfront Historic Area League organized.
- 1970
- 1972
- New Bedford High School established.
- John A. Markey becomes mayor.
- New Bedford Historical Commission established. [23]
- Sister city relationship established with Horta, Azores. [24]
- 1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens.
- 1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established.
- 1985 - A labor strike breaks out between fishermen and a trade association of shipowners.
- 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan. [25]
- 1988-89 - New Bedford Highway Killer active
- 1996
- Multi-stage folk festival begins at the State Pier; this event evolves into Summerfest, then New Bedford Folk Festival [26]
- New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and New Bedford Historical Society [2] established.
- City website online (approximate date). [27]
- 1997
- Azorean Maritime Heritage Society organized.
- New Bedford Bay Sox baseball team formed.
21st century
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- 2003 - Coast Guard Station New Bedford closes.
- 2006 - Scott W. Lang becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Population: 95,072.
- New Bedford Museum of Glass opens. [28]
- 2012 - Jonathan F. Mitchell becomes mayor. [29]
- 2015 - Marine Commerce Terminal begins operating. [30] [31]
See also
- New Bedford history
- List of mayors of New Bedford, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Timelines of other municipalities in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts: Boston, Cambridge, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Salem, Somerville, Waltham, Worcester
References
- ^ Murphy, Justin D. (2022). American Indian Wars: the essential reference guide. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, An imprint of ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-7509-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b Morse 1797.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Taber 1852.
- ^ a b c Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ a b c d e f g Crapo 1836.
- ^ "Frederick Douglass Chronology". Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ "New Bedford Streets; A Piece of Americana: Rodney French Boulevard - New Bedford Guide". New Bedford Guide. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
- ^ Edward Edwards (1869), Free Town Libraries: Their Formation, Management, and History in Britain, France, Germany & America, New York: J. Wiley, OCLC 1385548, OL 6921178M
- ^ Proceedings on the occasion of laying the corner-stone of the library edifice, for the Free Public Library, of the city of New Bedford, August 28, 1856, New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony, 1856, OCLC 8693441, OL 6999890M
- ^ George H. H. Allen (1923), New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, New Bedford, Mass.: [Reynolds, printer], OCLC 18996332, OL 13522925M
- ^ "Soule", Men of progress: one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: New England Magazine, 1896
- ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
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b Barcellos, Robert (29 November 1970).
"French Sharpshooters disband after nearly 80 years". Sunday Standard-Times. Archived from
the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
The Club of French Sharpshooters was incorporated on Sept. 26, 1892
- ^ "New Bedford-Fairhaven Middle Bridge, Spanning Acushnet River on U.S. Highway 6, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA". Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress). Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ^ "Flies invade New Bedford". New York Times. June 9, 1903.
- ^ Upton, Austin. "IWW Yearbook 1910". IWW History Project. University of Washington. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ "An Injury to One an Injury to All". Industrial Worker. Vol. 2, no. 9. 21 May 1910. p. 1.
- ^ "History". Zeiterion Performing Arts Center. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Who We Are". New Bedford: Your Theatre, Inc. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ^ Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis, ed. (2005). "Chronology". To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983893-6.
- ^ "New Bedford Historical Commission". City of New Bedford. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ^ Reference Department, New Bedford Free Public Library, December 30, 2014
- ^ "Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Society". Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ "History". New Bedford Folk Festival. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
- ^ "City of New Bedford Official Home Page". Archived from the original on 1996-12-21 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "New Bedford Museum of Glass". Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^ First cargo ship arrives New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, New Bedford Guide.com, July 6, 2015
- ^ "$113m New Bedford marine terminal sits largely idle", Boston Globe, August 30, 2015
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External links
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- WhalingCity.net. Chronological History of New Bedford, Mass.
- American Experience (2010). "Timeline: The History of Whaling in America". Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. WGBH Educational Foundation.
- Works related to New Bedford, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
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Map of New Bedford, 1851 -
Hathaway & Soule, est.1866 -
Advertisements, 1873 -
Wamsutta Mills in 1876 -
Aerial view of New Bedford Harbor, 1984
