Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts
The following is a timeline of the history of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.
17th-18th century[]
- 1629 - Saugus founded. Among the founders—Edmund Ingalls
- 1637 - Saugus renamed "Lynn."[1]
- 1642 - Saugus Iron Works in business.
- 1644 - Reading separates from Lynn.[1]
- 1720 - Lynnfield burying-ground established.[2]
- 1732 - Saugus burying-ground established.[2]
- 1782 - Lynnfield separates from Lynn.[1]
- 1793 - Post office in operation.[2]
- 1797 - Population: 2,291.[3]
19th century[]
- 1803 - Floating Bridge constructed on Salem-Boston turnpike.[2]
- 1810 - Population: 4,087.[4]
- 1812 - Eastern Burial-Place established.[2]
- 1814 - Town House built.[5]
- 1815
Lyceum building
- 1830 - Lynn Record newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1838
- 1840 - Population: 9,367.[4]
- 1841
- Lyceum building constructed.[9]
- Frederick Douglass moves to Lynn.[10]
- September 28 - Frederick Douglass is thrown off[11] the Eastern Railroad train at Lynn Central Square station for refusing to sit in the segregated coach[12][13][14]
- 1845 Frederick Douglass writes his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave[12] while living in Lynn
- 1848 - First High Rock Tower built.[15]
- 1850
- City of Lynn incorporated.
- George Hood becomes mayor.
- Pine Grove Cemetery consecrated.[2]
- 1851 - First High School built.
- 1852
- May - Swampscott separates from Lynn.[1]
- June - Benjamin Franklin Mudge becomes mayor.
- 1853
- February - Saugus Branch Railroad opens for passengers with four stations in Lynn. Lynn's Andrews Breed is the railroad's first superintendent.[16][17]
- March - Nahant separates from Lynn.[1]
- April - Daniel C. Baker becomes mayor.
Ezra W. Mudge
- 1854 - Lynn Weekly Reporter newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1855
- Andrews Breed becomes mayor.
- Lynn Library Association organized.[6]
- 1856
- Ezra W. Mudge becomes mayor.
- African Methodist Episcopal Church established.[5]
- 1858
- William F. Johnson becomes mayor.
- Telegraph in service.
- St. Mary's Cemetery consecrated.[2]
- 1859 - Edward S. Davis becomes mayor.
- 1860 - New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 begins in Lynn
- 1861 - Hiram N. Breed becomes mayor.
- 1862
- Peter M. Neal becomes mayor.
- Free Public Library established.[18]
- 1863 - Boston & Lynn Horse Railroad begins operating.[19]
- 1865
- April 19 - original High Rock Tower destroyed by fire
- 1866
- Roland G. Usher becomes mayor.
- Mary Baker Eddy experiences the fall in Lynn, believed by Christian Scientists to mark the birth of their religion.[20]
Music Hall
- 1867
- 1868 - Young Men's Christian Association organized.[9]
- 1870
- Edwin Walden becomes mayor.
- Music Hall opens.[9]
- 1872
- Labor strike by shoemakers.[22]
- James N. Buffum becomes mayor.
- Odd Fellows Hall built.[5]
- Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad chartered.[17]
- 1873
- Jacob M. Lewis becomes mayor.
- Soldiers' Monument installed.[5]
- 1876 - Lynn City Item newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1877 - Samuel M. Bubier becomes mayor.
St. Stephen's Memorial Episcopal Church
- 1879
- January - George Plaisted Sanderson becomes mayor.
- June - 250th anniversary of settlement.[23]
- 1880 - Lynn Masonic Hall built.
- 1881
- Henry B. Lovering elected mayor.
- Lynn Woods established.[24]
- St. Stephen's Memorial Episcopal Church built.
- Saint Mary's Boys High School established.
G.A.R. Hall and Museum
- 1882 - Lynn's Henry B. Lovering is elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- 1883
- William L. Baird becomes mayor.
- Thomson-Houston Electric Company in business.
- 1885
- John R. Baldwin becomes mayor.
- G.A.R. Hall built.
- 1886 - George D. Hart becomes mayor.
- 1887
- English High School established.
- Henry Cabot Lodge becomes Massachusetts's 6th congressional district representative.[25]
- 1888
- March 11–14 Lynn and all of Massachusetts are crippled by the Great Blizzard of 1888[26]
- George C. Higgins becomes mayor.
- Thomson-Houston Electric Company powers the first electric streetcar in Massachusetts:[27] the Highland Circuit of the Lynn & Boston Railway Company[28]
- 1889
- Asa T. Newhall becomes mayor.
- A fire sweeps through the downtown, destroying a large swath of commercial and retail space.
- 1890 - Fabens Building and Tapley Building constructed.
- 1891
- E. Knowlton Fogg becomes mayor.
- Lynn Bank Block and Mowers' Block built.
- 1892
- Elihu B. Hayes becomes mayor.
- General Electric formed by a merger of Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York and Thomson-Houston Electric Company of Lynn.[29]
- Lynn English High School on Essex Street opens[30]
- Lynn Classical High School opened.
- 1893 - Lynn Armory built.
Emblem of Lynn Historical Society, 1898
- 1894 - Charles E. Harwood becomes mayor.
- 1895 - Boston and Maine's Central Square station rebuilt.[31]
- 1896
- Eugene A. Besson becomes mayor.
- Post Office built.
- 1897
- Walter L. Ramsdell becomes mayor.
- Lynn Historical Society incorporated.
- 1898 - Lynn Public Library built.
- 1899 - William Shepherd becomes mayor.
20th century[]
Vamp Building
- 1900 - Population: 68,513.[1]
- 1903
- Henry W. Eastham becomes mayor.
- Vamp Building constructed.
- 1904
- second High Rock Tower constructed [32]
- 1905
- St. Michael the Archangel Parish established.
- 431 factories in Lynn.[1]
- 1906 - Charles Neal Barney becomes mayor.
- 1907 Lynndyl, Utah, a town named after Lynn, is founded.
- 1908 - Thomas F. Porter becomes mayor.
- 1909 - James E. Rich becomes mayor.
- 1911 - William P. Connery, Sr. becomes mayor.
- 1913
- George H. Newhall becomes mayor.
- Chamber of Commerce established.[2]
English High School 1916 section
- 1916 - James Street addition to the original Lynn English High School opens
- 1918 - Walter H. Creamer becomes mayor.
Walter H. Creamer
- 1921 - Bridge rebuilt on Salem-Boston turnpike.[2]
- 1922
- Harland A. McPhetres becomes mayor.
- Lynn's William P. Connery, Jr. is elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- 1924
- March 29 - Fire destroys the 1892 portion of the original Lynn English High School[33]
- 1926 - Ralph S. Bauer becomes mayor.
Lynn Post Office
- 1930
- Population: 102,320.
- J. Fred Manning becomes mayor.
Capitol Diner
- 1933 - United States Post Office–Lynn Main built.
- 1937
- March 28 - Highland Circuit electric streetcar line (first electric trolley in Massachusetts) is converted to motor bus operations
- June - Congressman William P. Connery, Jr. dies.
- September - Lawrence J. Connery elected to fill his late brother's Congressional seat.
- November - Manning Bowl stadium opens.
- 1938 - Capitol Diner in business.
- 1940
- Albert Cole becomes mayor.
- Fraser Field opens.
- 1943
- River Works plant opens.
- Mayor Albert Cole resigns to serve in U.S. Army. Arthur J. Frawley becomes acting mayor.
- 1944
- Arthur J. Frawley elected mayor.
- 1946
- Albert Cole becomes mayor.
- Lynn Red Sox baseball team active.
Lynn City Hall
- 1947
- Lynn Vocational and Technical Institute established (approximate date).[citation needed]
- WLYN goes on the air.
- 1949
- City Hall built.
- Lynn Tigers baseball team active.
- 1948 - becomes mayor.
- 1952
- Arthur J. Frawley becomes mayor.
- Boston and Maine's Central Square station rebuilt.[31]
- 1953 - Lynn's Harry Agganis signs with the Boston Red Sox.
- 1955 - Harry Agganis dies at the age of 26.
- 1956 - Thomas P. Costin, Jr. becomes mayor.
- 1959 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 24–21 in the Cardinal Cushing Charity Game held at the Manning Bowl.
- 1960 - Lynn Sunday Post begins publication.[7]
- 1961
- July - Mayor Thomas P. Costin, Jr. resigns to become Postmaster of Lynn. M. Henry Wall becomes acting mayor.
- November - M. Henry Wall elected mayor.
- 1963 - WBWL begins broadcasting.
- 1965 - North Shore Community College established
- 1966
- Irving E. Kane becomes mayor.
- The Rolling Stones kick off their North American Tour at the Manning Bowl.
- 1970 - J. Warren Cassidy becomes mayor.
- 1972
- January - Pasquale Caggiano becomes mayor.
- April - Pasquale Caggiano dies. Walter F. Meserve becomes acting mayor.
- July - Antonio J. Marino becomes mayor.
- Plans to construct Interstate 95 through Lynn and Lynn Woods Reservation are scrapped[34][35]
- 1974 - David L. Phillips becomes mayor.
- 1975
- Lynn's Thomas W. McGee becomes Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Great Stew Chase footrace begins.
- 1976 - Antonio J. Marino becomes mayor.
- 1980 - Lynn Sailors baseball team formed.
- 1981 - November - Fire levels approximately three square blocks of the downtown, destroying 17 buildings[36]
- 1982 - Lynn Sailors relocate to Burlington, Vermont.
- 1986 - Albert V. DiVirgilio becomes mayor.
- 1990 - The , a semi-pro football team, is established. The team's Defensive Tackle, Eric Swann, would be selected with the 6th overall pick in the 1991 NFL Draft.
- 1992
- Patrick J. McManus becomes mayor.
- Central Square - Lynn MBTA station rebuilt.[31]
- 1999 - New Lynn Classical High School building opened.
21st century[]
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- 2001 - City website online (approximate date).[37]
- 2002 - Edward J. Clancy, Jr. becomes mayor.
- 2003 - North Shore Spirit baseball team begins play.
- 2004 - KIPP Lynn Academy opens.
- 2007 - North Shore Spirit cease operations.
- 2008 - North Shore Navigators baseball team relocates to Lynn.
- 2010
- Population: 90,329.
- Judith Flanagan Kennedy becomes Lynn's first female mayor.
- 2011 - (High School) holds its first class.
- 2012 - opens doors the Highlands.
- 2014 - Seasonal ferry service to/from Boston is established
- 2016 - Ferry service is suspended
- 2017 - Ferry service resumes
- 2018
- 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass is celebrated throughout the year[38][39]
- Thomas M. McGee becomes mayor
- Ferry service is suspended
- 2021
- August 18: The Frederick Douglass Park is dedicated, directly across the street from the site of the Central Square railroad depot where Douglass was forcibly removed from the train in 1841.[40]
See also[]
- Lynn history
- List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts
- Timelines of other municipalities in Essex County, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Haverhill, Lawrence, Newburyport, Salem
- [41]
- History of Massachusetts
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Britannica 1910.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Arrington 1922.
- ^ Morse 1797.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Industries of Massachusetts 1886.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ "Lynn Natural History Society". Magazine of Horticuture. Boston, Mass.: Hovey & Co. October 1843.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Newhall 1890.
- ^ "Frederick Douglass Chronology". Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "Frederick Douglass Chronology - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Transportation Protests: 1841 to 1992". www.civilrightsteaching.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Resistance to the Segregation of Public Transportation in the Early 1840's". primaryresearch.org. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "High Rock Park". City of Lynn. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ Carlson, Stephen P. (1980). All Aboard!. Saugus, Massachusetts: Stephen P. Carlson.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bradlee, Francis F. C. (1917). The Eastern Railroad: A Historical Account of Early Railroading in Eastern New England. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute.
- ^ Lynn Public Library. "About our library". Archived from the original on October 4, 2006. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ Johnson 1880.
- ^ Fraser, Caroline (1999). God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. Henry Holt and Company. p. 52. ISBN 978-0805044317.
- ^ Nichols 1869.
- ^ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness, eds. (2015) [2009]. "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7.
- ^ Anniversary 1880.
- ^ "Lynn Woods Reservation". City of Lynn. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- ^ W.H. Michael (1889). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fiftieth Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
- ^ "March 11, 1888, Blizzard Shuts Down Massachusetts". Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
On this day in 1888, ordinary life in Massachusetts came to a standstill. One of the most destructive blizzards ever to strike the East Coast raged for 36 hours.
- ^ The Thomson-Houston Road at Lynn, Mass., The Electrical World, Dec. 8, 1888, page 303
- ^ Electric Railway at Lynn, Mass., Electric Power, January, 1889, page 21
- ^ "FAQs: How did the firm impact the advent of electricity?". J.P. Morgan. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for English High School (498 Essex Street)". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Belcher, Jonathan (31 December 2011). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ "High Rock Park, Tower and Observatory". City of Lynn. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association, Volume 17. National Fire Protection Association. 1923. p. 366. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^ "The Roads Not Taken". www.architects.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ "Interstate 95-Massachusetts (North of Boston Section)". www.bostonroads.com. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ "BLAZE DESTROYS URBAN COMPLEX IN LYNN, MASS". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ^ "City of Lynn, Massachusetts Official Homepage". Archived from the original on July 2001 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Frederick Douglass' 200th Birthday in Lynn" (PDF). Lynn Douglass 200th Committee. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ "Re-Examining Fredrick Douglass's Time In Lynn". Lynn Daily Item / itemlive.com. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ^ Kuzub, Alena (2021-08-18). "Frederick Douglass Park Dedicated". Lynn Daily Item. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Chronology", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl:2027/mdp.39015014440781
Bibliography[]
- Published in the 18th-19th century
- Jedidiah Morse (1797), "Lynn", American Gazetteer, Boston: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews
- Alonzo Lewis (1829), The history of Lynn, Boston: J.H. Eastburn, OCLC 11545142, OL 6905784M
- Alonzo Lewis (1844), The history of Lynn, including Nahant (2nd ed.), Boston: Printed by S. N. Dickinson, OL 24930364M
- Alonzo Lewis; James R. Newhall (1865), History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, Boston: J.L. Shorey, OL 13446280M
- Lynn Directory, 1867. Lynn, Mass.: Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1867.
- City Hall of Lynn, Lynn, Mass.: T. P. Nichols, printer, 1869, OL 14000539M
- "Chronological Table", Centennial Memorial of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, Lynn: Pub. by order of the City Council, 1876
- Proceedings in Lynn, Massachusetts, June 17, 1879: being the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement, Published by order of the City Council, 1880, OCLC 4042721, OL 6905493M
- David Newhall Johnson (1880), Sketches of Lynn: or, the changes of 50 years, Lynn, Mass.: T. P. Nichols, printer, OL 14042347M
- "City of Lynn", Industries of Massachusetts, New York: International Pub. Co., 1886, OCLC 19803267
- Lynn and Surroundings, Lynn, Mass: Lewis & Winship, 1886, OL 14021197M
- Lynn Manual and Essex County Road Book, Lynn, Mass.: E. F. Bacheller, 1888, OL 24157919M
- James R. Newhall (1890), History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, 2, Lynn: G. C. Herbert, OCLC 2882816, OL 13523901M
- Published in the 20th century
- "Lynn", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Benjamin F. Arrington (1922), "City of Lynn", Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, OCLC 1619460
- Atlas of the City of Lynn, Massachusetts. L.J. Richards & Co. 1924 – via State Library of Massachusetts.
- Alan Dawley (1976), Class and Community: the industrial revolution in Lynn, Harvard Studies in Urban History, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674133900
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