Timeline of Manchester, New Hampshire

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.

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

• 1722 - John Goffe settles in Old Harry's Town, in the British Province of New Hampshire. ^[1]
• 1723 - A cabin was built and gradually a small settlement grew up. ^[1]
• 1727 - Tyngstown (or “Tyng’s Township”) established.
• 1736 - The first sawmill was erected. ^[1]
• 1751 - Tyngstown rechartered as "Derryfield." ^{[2] [1]}
• 1788 - Province becomes part of the State of New Hampshire.
• 1796 - Derryfield Social Library founded. ^[3]

19th century

• 1807 - Canal built by Samuel Blodgett.
• 1810
  • Derryfield renamed "Manchester." ^{[2] [1]}
  • Amoskeag Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company incorporated.
• 1823 - Population: 761. ^[4]
• 1839
  • Amoskeag Representative newspaper begins publication. ^[5]
  • First Congregational Society incorporated. ^[6]
  • First Baptist Church organized. ^[6]
• 1840 - Population: 3,235. ^[1]
• 1841
  • First Unitarian Church built. ^[7]
  • Valley Cemetery laid out.
• 1842 - Ann Bamford begins working in the Underground Railway
• 1843 - Mennell's Circulating Library in business (approximate date). ^[3]
• 1844 - Manchester Athenaeum established. ^[3]
• 1846
  • City incorporated. ^{[2] [1]}
  • Manchester High School established. ^[8]
• 1849 - Manchester and Lawrence Railroad begins operating. ^[9]
• 1850
  • Manchester Daily Mirror newspaper begins publication. ^[5]
  • City Missionary Society established. ^[6]
• 1851 - City hosts state fair. ^[10]
• 1852 - Manchester Gas Light Co. established. ^[6]
• 1854
  • Manchester City Library established. ^{[11] [12]}
  • Manchester Locomotive Works formed.
• 1855 - First Presbyterian Church organized. ^[6]
• 1860 - Population: 8,841. ^[1]
• 1863 - Union Leader newspaper begins publication.
• 1869
  • Hillsborough County seat relocated to Manchester from Amherst.
  • Cathedral of St. Joseph founded.
  • St. Joseph Cemetery in operation.
• 1870
  • Turnverein organized. ^[6]
  • Population: 23,509. ^[13]
• 1874 - Ash Street School built.
• 1875 - Women's Aid Home organized. ^[6]
• 1880
  • Manchester Opera House Company organized. ^[6]
  • Ste. Marie Church founded.
  • Population: 33,592. ^[1]
• 1883 - Union Publishing Co. incorporated. ^[6]
• 1885 - Young People's Christian Union organized. ^[6]
• 1886 - Devonshire Mills incorporated. ^[6]
• 1887
  • People's Baptist Church organized. ^[6]
  • Novelty Advertising Co. incorporated. ^[6]
• 1889 - Saint Anselm College established in neighboring Goffstown.
• 1890
  • Elliot Hospital founded.
  • Population: 44,126. ^[1]
• 1891 - Swedish Baptist Church organized. ^[6]
• 1892
  • Beech Street Grounds baseball stadium in operation.
  • Sacred Heart Hospital founded.
• 1893 - Stark Park dedicated. ^[14]
• 1894
  • Manchester Children's Home organized. ^[6]
  • Eureka Shoe Co. incorporated. ^[6]
• 1895
  • Manchester Historical Association established. ^[15]
  • Varick Park sports complex in operation.
• 1897 - Weston Observatory built.
• 1898
  • Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences founded. ^{[16] [1]}
  • Manchester Camera Club organized. ^[6]
• 1900 - Population: 56,987. ^[1]

20th century

• 1906 - Strand Theatre in business in the former Opera House. ^[17]
• 1910
  • Population: 70,063. ^[1]
  • Centennial celebration of city founding. ^[18]
• 1911 - Adath Yeshurun synagogue built. ^[19]
• 1912 - Empire Theater built. ^[17]
• 1913 - Textile Field sports stadium built.
• 1914 - Palace Theatre ^[20] and Public Library built. ^[21]
• 1922 - Manchester Central High School renamed, adding "Central".
• 1923 - Manchester High School West established.
• 1927 - Manchester Airport established.
• 1929 - Currier Gallery of Art founded. ^[22]
• 1932 - New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science (now Southern New Hampshire University) founded.
• 1935 - Amoskeag Mills close. ^[23]
• 1942 - Grenier Army Airfield dedicated.
• 1945
  • State Trade School at Manchester founded. ^[24]
  • Utility Worker's Credit Union formed.
• 1950 - Zimmerman House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• 1954 - WMUR begins broadcasting.
• 1960 - Manchester Memorial High School opens.
• 1963 - John F. Kennedy Memorial Coliseum opens.
• 1964 - The Derryfield School established.
• 1966 - Grenier Air Force Base closes.
• 1971 - McIntyre Ski Area opens.
• 1972 - Hampshire Plaza building constructed.
• 1973 - Manchester Transit Authority founded.
• 1974 - New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra formed.
• 1977 - Mall of New Hampshire opens.
• 1980 - Population: 90,936. ^[25]
• 1982 - Manchester School of Technology established.
• 1985 - University of New Hampshire at Manchester established.
• 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Taichung, Taiwan. ^[26]
• 1990 - Franco-American Centre founded. ^[22]
• 1992
  • City Hall Plaza building constructed.
  • Sister city relationship established with Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany.
• 1998
  • City website online (approximate date). ^{[27] [ chronology citation needed ]}
  • Islamic Society of Greater Manchester founded. ^{[28] [29]}
• 1999 - Robert A. Baines becomes mayor. ^[30]

21st century

• 2000
  • Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Manchester campus opens.
  • Holy Family Academy established.
• 2001
  • Civic arena opens.
  • Hippo newspaper begins publication.
• 2005
  • Fisher Cats Ballpark opens.
  • Segway Fest held.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2006
  • Manchester Daily Express newspaper begins publication.
  • Murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer.
• 2010
  • Ted Gatsas becomes mayor. ^[31]
  • Population: 109,565. ^[32]
• 2018 - Joyce Craig becomes mayor. ^[33]
• 2024 - Jay Ruais becomes mayor. ^[34]

Images

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  Military parade, Manchester, 1874
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  Map of Manchester, 1876
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  Merrimack River flood, 2005
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  Candidate Hillary Clinton in Manchester, 2007
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  Currier Museum renovated, 2008

See also

• Manchester history
• List of mayors of Manchester, New Hampshire
• Neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 664, OCLC   3832886, OL   5812502M
3. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
4. Morse 1823.
5. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
6. Sampson 1905.
7. Milne Special Collections. "New Hampshire Towns: Manchester". Collections by Subject. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Library. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
8. "Central High School". central.mansd.org. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
9. Henry Varnum Poor (1860), History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States, New York: J.H. Schultz, OCLC   11435390, OL   13555505M
10. "State Fair at Manchester", New York Times, October 10, 1851
11. Carpenter Memorial Library ... Dedication Exercises. Manchester, N.H.: Manchester City Library. 1916.
12. Bell 1863.
13. Appleton 1872.
14. Charles H. Bartlett (1893), Dedication of Stark Park by the City of Manchester, N.H., Manchester, N.H: Printed by J.B. Clarke Co., OL   14003068M
15. Manchester Historic Association (1897), Collections, Manchester, N.H, OL   14001102M
16. American Art Annual, vol. 13, NY: American Federation of Arts, 1916, hdl:2027/nyp.33433019831035
17. "Movie Theaters in Manchester, NH". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
18. Centennial 1910.
19. Stahl 1995.
20. "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
21. "Library History". Manchester City Library. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
22. "Hillsborough County". Directory. Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire. Archived from the original on May 17, 2013 – via Wayback Machine.
23. John Mayer (1994). "The Mills and Machinery of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire". IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology . 20 (1/2): 69–79. JSTOR   40968283.
24. "Manchester Community College" . Retrieved August 27, 2012.
25. United States Census Bureau (1984), County and City Data Book, 1983, Statistical Abstract, Washington DC, OL   14997563M
26. "Records of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 1947-present". City of Manchester. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
27. "City of Manchester". Archived from the original on December 12, 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
28. "History". Islamic Society of Greater Manchester. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
29. Pluralism Project. "Manchester, New Hampshire". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
30. "Mayor's Biography". City of Manchester, NH. Archived from the original on April 23, 2004.
31. "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
32. United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder, 2010 Census figures
33. "Manchester, New Hampshire's 1st Female Mayor Takes Office". 10 Boston. January 2, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
34. "Jay P. Ruais inaugurated as Manchester mayor, to lead largest N.H. city in new direction". The Boston Globe. January 2, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Manchester", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• Samuel Newell Bell (1863). Index Catalogue of the Manchester City Library. Printed by C.F. Livingston.
• "Manchester", Appletons' Hand-Book of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1872
• "Manchester City". New Hampshire Register. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1872.
• Maurice D. Clarke (1875), Manchester: a Brief Record of its Past and a Picture of its Present, Manchester, N.H.: J.B. Clarke, OL   23317139M
• Pocket Business Directory and Industrial and Social Statistics of the City of Manchester, N.H., 1879, Manchester: Temple & Farrington, 1879, OL   23367208M
• Manchester Directory: 1883. Boston: Sampson & Murdock. 1882.
• "City of Manchester", Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of New Hampshire, New York: International Pub. Co., 1887
• George Fox Bacon (1891), Manchester and its Leading Business Men, Boston: Mercantile Publishing Co., OL   23365091M
• 1846 Semi-Centennial Compendium of Historical Facts, Manchester, N.H.: Frank H. Challis, 1896, OL   13988380M
• Contributions to the History of Derryfield, New Hampshire: a Paper Read Before the Manchester Historic Association, Manchester, N.H.: William Ellery Moore, 1896, OL   14050532M

Published in the 20th century

• Manchester Directory: 1906. Boston: Sampson & Murdock. 1905.
• "Manchester", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC   02338437 – via Internet Archive
• "Manchester (New Hampshire)"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 549–550.
• Manchester Historic Association (1910), Centennial Celebration of Manchester, N.H., Manchester NH, OCLC   7811124, OL   23285372M
• "Manchester", Handbook of New England, Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1916, OCLC   16726464
• Manchester Directory. Boston: Sampson & Murdock. 1921.
• Federal Writers' Project (1938). "Manchester". New Hampshire: a Guide to the Granite State. American Guide Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. hdl:2027/mdp.39015021583557 – via HathiTrust.
• Haebler, Peter. "Nativist Riots in Manchester: An Episode of Know-Nothingism in New Hampshire." Historical New Hampshire 39 (1985): 121–37.
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Manchester, New Hampshire", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL   1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
• David G. Stahl (Fall–Winter 1995), "Becoming American: Manchester's Jewish Community", Historical New Hampshire, New Hampshire Historical Society
• Hareven, Tamara K., and Randolph Langenbach. Amoskeag: Life and work in an American factory-city (UPNE, 1995) The Amoskeag textile factory in Manchester was the largest in the world; this is the story of its workers. online

Published in the 21st century

• "New Hampshire: Manchester", New England (3rd ed.), Lonely Planet, 2002, p. 476+, OL   24765202M

External links

• "Manchester". Digital Collections. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Library.
• Items related to Manchester, New Hampshire, various dates (via U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
• Digitized annual reports of the Town of Manchester, various dates (via Internet Archive)
• Works related to Manchester, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).

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