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Timeline of Manchester, New Hampshire

Summary

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

Prior to 19th century edit

  • 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 edit

1842 - Ann Bamford begins working in the Underground Railway

20th century edit

21st century edit

Images edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b c Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 664, OCLC 3832886, OL 5812502M
  3. ^ a b c Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  4. ^ Morse 1823.
  5. ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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 2016-04-15.
  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. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ^ American Art Annual, vol. 13, NY: American Federation of Arts, 1916, hdl:2027/nyp.33433019831035
  17. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Hillsborough County". Directory. Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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 1998-12-12 – 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 edit

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
  • "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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "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.
  • 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 edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Manchester, New Hampshire.
  • "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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