Timeline of Manchester, New Hampshire explained

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

Prior to 19th century

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

19th century

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

20th century

• 1906 - Strand Theatre in business in the former Opera House.^[6]
• 1910
  • Population: 70,063.
  • Centennial celebration of city founding.
• 1911 - Adath Yeshurun synagogue built.
• 1912 - Empire Theater built.
• 1913 - Textile Field sports stadium built.
• 1914 - Palace Theatre^[7] and Public Library built.^[8]
• 1922 - Manchester Central High School renamed, adding "Central".
• 1923 - Manchester High School West established.
• 1927 - Manchester Airport established.
• 1929 - Currier Gallery of Art founded.^[9]
• 1932 - New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science (now Southern New Hampshire University) founded.
• 1935 - Amoskeag Mills close.^[10]
• 1942 - Grenier Army Airfield dedicated.
• 1945
  • State Trade School at Manchester founded.^[11]
  • 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.
• 1982 - Manchester School of Technology established.
• 1985 - University of New Hampshire at Manchester established.
• 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Taichung, Taiwan.^[12]
• 1990 - Franco-American Centre founded.
• 1992
  • City Hall Plaza building constructed.
  • Sister city relationship established with Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany.
• 1998
  • City website online (approximate date).^[13]
  • Islamic Society of Greater Manchester founded.^{[14] [15]}
• 1999 - Robert A. Baines becomes mayor.^[16]

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.
• 2006
  • Manchester Daily Express newspaper begins publication.
  • Shooting of a police officer.
• 2010
  • Ted Gatsas becomes mayor.^[17]
  • Population: 109,565.^[18]
• 2018
  • Joyce Craig becomes mayor.^[19]
• 2024
  • Jay Ruais becomes mayor.^[20]

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

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • Book: Index Catalogue of the Manchester City Library . Samuel Newell Bell . Printed by C.F. Livingston . 1863 . .
  • Book: New Hampshire Register . Claremont, NH . Claremont Manufacturing Company . 1872 . Manchester City . https://books.google.com/books?id=4OYWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA150 .
    • Book: Manchester Directory: 1883 . 1882 . Sampson & Murdock . Boston.

Published in the 20th century

• Book: Manchester Directory: 1906 . 1905 . Sampson & Murdock . Boston. .
  • Manchester (New Hampshire) . 17 . 549 - 550 . 1910 . . 1.
    • Book: Manchester Directory . 1921 . Sampson & Murdock . Boston.
• Book: Boston . Houghton Mifflin . . New Hampshire: a Guide to the Granite State . Federal Writers' Project . 1938 . Manchester . 2027/mdp.39015021583557 . Federal Writers' Project . HathiTrust .
• Haebler, Peter. "Nativist Riots in Manchester: An Episode of Know-Nothingism in New Hampshire." Historical New Hampshire 39 (1985): 121–37.
• (fulltext via Open Library)
  • 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

External links

• Web site: Manchester . Digital Collections . University of New Hampshire Library . Durham, NH .
• 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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Notes and References

1. Web site: American Libraries before 1876 . Davies Project . Princeton University . July 29, 2013.
2. Web site: US Newspaper Directory . Washington DC . Chronicling America . Library of Congress . August 27, 2012.
3. Web site: New Hampshire Towns: Manchester . Collections by Subject . Milne Special Collections . University of New Hampshire Library . July 29, 2013 . Durham, NH .
4. Web site: Central High School. central.mansd.org. 2016-04-15.
5. Book: Carpenter Memorial Library ... Dedication Exercises . Manchester City Library . Manchester, N.H. . 1916 .
6. Web site: Movie Theaters in Manchester, NH . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . July 29, 2013 .
7. Web site: Historic Theatre Inventory . Maryland, USA . League of Historic American Theatres . July 29, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130721130121/http://www.lhat.org/historictheatres/theatre_inventory.aspx . July 21, 2013 .
8. Web site: Library History . Manchester City Library . July 29, 2013.
9. Web site: Hillsborough County . Directory . Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire . https://web.archive.org/web/20130517134413/http://www.historicalsocietiesnh.org/drhillsb.htm . 2013-05-17 . Wayback Machine .
10. The Mills and Machinery of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire . John Mayer . . 20 . 1/2 . 69–79 . 1994 . 40968283 .
11. Web site: Manchester Community College . August 27, 2012.
12. Web site: Records of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 1947-present . City of Manchester . December 30, 2014 .
13. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212013221/http://ci.manchester.nh.us/ . City of Manchester . 1998-12-12 . .
14. Web site: History . Islamic Society of Greater Manchester . July 29, 2013.
15. Web site: Manchester, New Hampshire . Directory of Religious Centers . Pluralism Project . Harvard University . July 29, 2013.
16. Web site: Mayor's Biography. City of Manchester, NH. https://web.archive.org/web/20040423135018/http://www.manchesternh.gov/citygov/myr/biography.html. dead. April 23, 2004.
17. Web site: Meet the Mayors . . Washington, DC . March 30, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080627104834/http://www.usmayors.org/meetmayors/mayorsatglance.asp . June 27, 2008 .
18. United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder, 2010 Census figures
19. Web site: Manchester, New Hampshire's 1st Female Mayor Takes Office. January 2, 2018. January 3, 2019. 10 Boston.
20. Web site: Jay P. Ruais inaugurated as Manchester mayor, to lead largest N.H. city in new direction. January 2, 2024. February 28, 2024. The Boston Globe.