Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts

The following is a timeline of the history of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.

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## 17th-18th century

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* 1629 - Saugus founded. [1] Among the founders — Edmund Ingalls
* 1637 - Saugus renamed to Lynn in honor of Reverend Samuel Whiting (Senior), Lynn's first official minister who arrived from King's Lynn.[2][1]
* 1642 - Saugus Iron Works in business.[1]
* 1644 - Reading separates from Lynn.[1]
* 1720 - Lynnfield burying-ground established.[3]
* 1732 - Saugus burying-ground established.[3]
* 1782 - Lynnfield separates from Lynn.[1]
* 1793 - Post office in operation.[3]
* 1797 - Population: 2,291.[4]

## 19th century

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* 1803 - Floating Bridge constructed on Salem-Boston turnpike.[3]
* 1810 - Population: 4,087.[5]
* 1812 - Eastern Burial-Place established.[3]
* 1814 - Town House built.[6]
* 1815
* Saugus separates from Lynn.[1]
* Social Library formed.[7]

Lyceum building

* 1830 - Lynn Record newspaper begins publication.[8]
* 1838
* Eastern Railroad in operation.[6]
* Lynn Natural History Society formed.[9]
* 1840 - Population: 9,367.[5]
* 1841
* Lyceum building constructed.[10]
* Frederick Douglass moves to Lynn.[11]
* September 28 - Frederick Douglass is thrown off[12] the Eastern Railroad train at Lynn Central Square station for refusing to sit in the segregated coach[13][14][15]
* 1845 Frederick Douglass writes his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave[13] while living in Lynn
* 1847 - High Rock Cottage (also called "Stone Cottage") is built by Alonzo Lewis[16] for Jesse Hutchinson[17]
* 1848 - First High Rock Tower built.[18][17]
* 1850
* May 14 - City of Lynn incorporated.[19][1]
* George Hood becomes mayor.
* Pine Grove Cemetery consecrated.[3]
* 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.[20][21]
* March - Nahant separates from Lynn.[1]
* April - Daniel C. Baker becomes mayor.

Ezra W. Mudge

* 1854 - Lynn Weekly Reporter newspaper begins publication.[8]
* 1855
* Andrews Breed becomes mayor.
* Lynn Library Association organized.[7]
* 1856
* Ezra W. Mudge becomes mayor.
* African Methodist Episcopal Church established.[6]
* 1858
* William F. Johnson becomes mayor.
* Telegraph in service.
* St. Mary's Cemetery consecrated.[3]
* 1859 - Edward S. Davis becomes mayor.
* 1860 - 1860 New England Shoemakers Strike begins in Lynn
* 1861 - Hiram N. Breed becomes mayor.
* 1862
* Peter M. Neal becomes mayor.
* Free Public Library established.[22][1]
* 1863 - Boston & Lynn Horse Railroad begins operating.[23]
* 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.[24]

Music Hall

* 1867
* City Hall dedicated.[25]
* Lynn Transcript newspaper begins publication.[8]
* 1868 - Young Men's Christian Association organized.[10]
* 1870
* Edwin Walden becomes mayor.
* Music Hall opens.[10]
* 1872
* Labor strike by shoemakers.[26]
* James N. Buffum becomes mayor.
* Odd Fellows Hall built.[6]
* Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad chartered.[21]
* 1873
* Jacob M. Lewis becomes mayor.
* Soldiers' Monument installed.[6]
* 1876 - Lynn City Item newspaper begins publication.[8]
* 1877 - Samuel M. Bubier becomes mayor.

St. Stephen's Memorial Episcopal Church

* 1879
* January - George Plaisted Sanderson becomes mayor.
* June - 250th anniversary of settlement.[27]
* 1880 - Lynn Masonic Hall built.
* 1881
* Henry B. Lovering elected mayor.
* Lynn Woods established.[28]
* 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.[29]
* 1888
* March 11–14 Lynn and all of Massachusetts are crippled by the Great Blizzard of 1888[30]
* George C. Higgins becomes mayor.
* Thomson-Houston Electric Company powers the first electric streetcar in Massachusetts:[31] the Highland Circuit of the Lynn & Boston Railway Company[32]
* 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.[33]
* Lynn English High School on Essex Street opens[34]
* 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.[35]
* 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

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Vamp Building Central Square, c. 1920

* 1900 - Population: 68,513.[1]
* 1903
* Henry W. Eastham becomes mayor.
* Vamp Building constructed.
* 1904
* second High Rock Tower constructed [36]
* 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.
* 1910 - Population: 89,336.[1]
* 1911 - William P. Connery, Sr. becomes mayor.
* 1913
* George H. Newhall becomes mayor.
* Chamber of Commerce established.[3]

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.[3]
* 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[37]
* 1926 - Ralph S. Bauer becomes mayor.

Lynn Post Office

* 1928 - An explosion at the Preble Box Toe Company factory kills 20.[38]

Lynn Beach, State Bath House, Lynn, Mass. a postcard from 1930

* 1930
* Population: 102,320.
* J. Fred Manning becomes mayor.

Capitol Diner

* 1933 - United States Post Office–Lynn Main built.
* 1934 - President of the Massachusetts Poetry Society Jeanette Maes is born.
* 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 24 - 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 - Stuart A. Tarr becomes mayor.
* 1952
* Arthur J. Frawley becomes mayor.
* Boston and Maine's Central Square station rebuilt.[35]
* 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.

\- Musician Brian Maes is born.

* 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.[8]
* 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[39][40]
* 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[41]
* 1982 - Lynn Sailors relocate to Burlington, Vermont.
* 1986 - Albert V. DiVirgilio becomes mayor.
* 1990 - The Bay State Titans, a semi-pro football team, is established. The team's Defensive Tackle, Eric Swann, would be selected with the sixth overall pick in the 1991 NFL draft.
* 1992
* Patrick J. McManus becomes mayor.
* Central Square - Lynn MBTA station rebuilt.[35]
* 1999 - New Lynn Classical High School building opened.

## 21st century

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* 2001 - City website online (approximate date).[42]
* 2002 - Edward J. Clancy, Jr. becomes mayor.
* 2003 - North Shore Spirit baseball team begins play.

\- Madeline Maes is born.

* 2004 - Regina Maes is born.
* 2005 - Manning Bowl is demolished and replaced by Manning Field.
* 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 - KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate (High School) holds its first class.
* 2012 - KIPP Academy Lynn opens doors the Highlands.
* 2014 - Seasonal ferry service to/from Boston is established

Downtown Lynn and the MBTA Lynn station 2015 Downtown Lynn in 2016

* 2016 - Ferry service is suspended
* 2017 - Ferry service resumes
* 2018
* 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass is celebrated throughout the year[43][44]
* 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.[45]
* 2022
* January 3: Jared C. Nicholson is sworn in as the 58th Mayor

## See also

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* 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
* History of Massachusetts

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica 1910.
2. ^ "A BRIEF HISTORY OF LYNN". About Lynn. City of Lynn. Retrieved December 1, 2021. "When the first official minister, Samuel Whiting, arrived from King's Lynn, England, the new settlers were so excited that they changed the name of their community to Lynn in 1637 in honor of him."
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Arrington 1922.
4. ^ Morse 1797.
5. ^ a b Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
6. ^ a b c d e Industries of Massachusetts 1886.
7. ^ a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
8. ^ a b c d e "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
9. ^ "Lynn Natural History Society". Magazine of Horticulture. Boston, Mass.: Hovey & Co. October 1843.
10. ^ a b c Newhall 1890.
11. ^ "Frederick Douglass Chronology". Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. U.S. National Park Service. Archived from the original on December 26, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
12. ^ The full text of Page:My Bondage and My Freedom (1855).djvu/411  at Wikisource
13. ^ a b "Frederick Douglass Chronology - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
14. ^ "Transportation Protests: 1841 to 1992". www.civilrightsteaching.org. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
15. ^ "Resistance to the Segregation of Public Transportation in the Early 1840's". primaryresearch.org. March 10, 2009. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
16. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for High Rock Cottage". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
17. ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for High Rock Tower, High Rock Cottage, Daisy Cottage". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
18. ^ "High Rock Park". City of Lynn. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
19. ^ City of Lynn Massachusetts Semi-Centennial of Incorporation. Celebration Committee / Whitten & Cass, Printers. 1900. p. 63. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
20. ^ Carlson, Stephen P. (1980). All Aboard!. Saugus, Massachusetts: Stephen P. Carlson.
21. ^ 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.
22. ^ Lynn Public Library. "About our library". Archived from the original on October 4, 2006. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
23. ^ Johnson 1880.
24. ^ Fraser, Caroline (1999). God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church. Henry Holt and Company. p. 52\. ISBN 978-0805044317.
25. ^ Nichols 1869.
26. ^ Aaron Brenner; Benjamin Day; Immanuel Ness, eds. (2015) [2009]. "Timeline". Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45707-7.
27. ^ Anniversary 1880.
28. ^ "Lynn Woods Reservation". City of Lynn. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
29. ^ W.H. Michael (1889). "Massachusetts". Official Congressional Directory: Fiftieth Congress (2nd ed.). Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
30. ^ "March 11, 1888, Blizzard Shuts Down Massachusetts". Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. March 11, 1888. Retrieved January 18, 2020. "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."
31. ^ The Thomson-Houston Road at Lynn, Mass., The Electrical World, Dec. 8, 1888, page 303
32. ^ Electric Railway at Lynn, Mass., Electric Power, January, 1889, page 21
33. ^ "FAQs: How did the firm impact the advent of electricity?". J.P. Morgan. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
34. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for English High School (498 Essex Street)". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
35. ^ a b c Belcher, Jonathan (December 31, 2011). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
36. ^ "High Rock Park, Tower and Observatory". City of Lynn. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
37. ^ Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association, Volume 17. National Fire Protection Association. 1923. p. 366. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
38. ^ "John Coleman Dies, 20th in Lynn Blast". The Boston Daily Globe. November 25, 1928.
39. ^ "The Roads Not Taken". www.architects.org. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
40. ^ "Interstate 95-Massachusetts (North of Boston Section)". www.bostonroads.com. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
41. ^ "BLAZE DESTROYS URBAN COMPLEX IN LYNN, MASS". New York Times. November 29, 1981. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
42. ^ "City of Lynn, Massachusetts Official Homepage". Archived from the original on July 23, 2001 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
43. ^ "Frederick Douglass' 200th Birthday in Lynn" (PDF). Lynn Douglass 200th Committee. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
44. ^ "Re-Examining Fredrick Douglass's Time In Lynn". Lynn Daily Item / itemlive.com. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
45. ^ Kuzub, Alena (August 18, 2021). "Frederick Douglass Park Dedicated". Lynn Daily Item. Retrieved August 20, 2021.

## Bibliography

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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, vol. 2, Lynn: G. C. Herbert, OCLC 2882816, OL 13523901M

Published in the 20th century

* "Lynn" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 172.
* 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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