Timeline of Waltham, Massachusetts

The following is a timeline of the history of Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.

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Prior to 19th century

• Pre-1703 - Old myth Waltham was first founded by vikings.
• 1703 - Grove Hill Cemetery established.
• 1738 - Town of Waltham incorporated from Watertown, Massachusetts.
• 1755 - Part of Cambridge annexed to Waltham.^[1]
• 1793 - The Vale (residence) built.

19th century

• 1810 - Waltham Cotton and Wool Factory Company formed.^[2]
• 1813 - Boston Manufacturing Company in business.^[3]
• 1820
  • First Congregational Church founded.
  • Manufacturers' Library active.^[4]
  • Waltham Bleachery built.^[5]
• 1827 - Rumford Institute organized.^[6][7]
• 1833 - The Hive newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1835 - Waltham Bank established.^[2]
• 1837 - Methodist Episcopal Church organized.^[9]
• 1849
  • Part of Newton annexed to Waltham.^[1]
  • Christ Episcopal Church built.
• 1851 - Tornado.^[10]
• 1852 - Baptist Church organized.^[9]
• 1853 - Waltham Gas Light Company incorporated.^[6]
• 1854 - American Horologe Company relocates to Waltham.^[11]
• 1856 - Waltham Sentinel newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1857
  • Waltham and Watertown Railroad constructed.^[12]
  • Mount Feake Cemetery established.
  • Waltham Agricultural Library Association formed.^[2]
• 1859 - Town of Belmont separates from Waltham.^[1]
• 1863 - Waltham Free Press begins publication.^[8]
• 1865 - Public Library founded.^[4]
• 1866 - Emmet Literary Association formed.^[9]
• 1870
  • Waltham Horological School established.^[13]
  • Waltham Foundry Co. established.^[14]
• 1876
  • Waltham Weekly Record begins publication.^[8]
  • Davis & Farnum Manufacturing Company in business.^[2]
• 1879 - Leland Home for aged women established.^[1]
• 1880 - Music Hall built.^[2]
• 1881 - Emery Wheel Company in business.^[15]
• 1882 - Parmenter Crayon Company chartered.^[16]
• 1884
  • City of Waltham incorporated.
  • Harrington Block built.
• 1885
  • Board of Trade organized.^[2]
  • Waltham Hospital founded.^[1]
  • Waltham Training School for Nurses established.^[1]
• 1886 - Robert Treat Paine Estate built.
• 1888 - Sesquicentennial.^[17]
• 1890
  • Population: 18,707.^[1]
  • Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded relocates to Waltham.^[18]
• 1891 - O'Hara Waltham Dial Company organized.^[11]
• 1893
  • Waltham Evening News begins publication.^[8]
  • Waltham Manufacturing Company established.^[19]
  • Beaver Brook Reservation and Charles River Reservation established.
• 1894
  • Linden Street Bridge constructed.
  • Waltham Bicycle Park opens.^[19]

20th century

• 1902 - Metz Company in business.
• 1908 - Company F State Armory built.
• 1910 - Population: 27,834.^[1]
• 1915 - Waltham Historical Society incorporated.^[20]
• 1924 - Waltham News Tribune newspaper in publication.^[8]
• 1928 - Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery relocates to Waltham.
• 1933 - First Parish Church rebuilt.
• 1935 - Gore Place Society founded.^[21]
• 1936 - Hovey Players (theatre group) founded.^[22][23]
• 1938 - County Courthouse built.
• 1941 - Waltham Garden Club founded.^[24]
• 1948 - Brandeis University established.
• 1961 - Rose Art Museum founded at Brandeis University.
• 1968
  • Bentley University relocates to Waltham.
  • WBRS on air.
• 1970 - Population: 61,582.
• 1971
  • Waltham Museum established.^[25]
  • Robert Drinan becomes Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district representative.
• 1975 - Aerosmith musical group rents Wherehouse.
• 1976 - Waltham Mills Artists Association open studios begins (approximate date)^[26]
• 1980 - Charles River Museum of Industry established.
• 1982 - Parexel International Corporation headquartered in Waltham.
• 1985 - Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra formed.^[27]
• 1987 - Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes Massachusetts's 8th congressional district representative.
• 1988 - Global Petroleum Corporation headquartered in Waltham (approximate date).^[28]
• 1995 - Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. headquartered in Waltham.
• 1996
  • Lionbridge Technologies Inc. headquartered in Waltham.
  • City website online.^[29][30]
• 1999 - Waltham Land Trust incorporated.^[31]

21st century

• 2003 - Raytheon Company and Roving Software Inc. headquartered in Waltham.
• 2004
  • Jeannette A. McCarthy becomes mayor.^[32]
  • Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism nonprofit established.^[33]
• 2006 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. headquartered in Waltham.
• 2007
  • PerkinElmer, Inc. headquartered in Waltham.
  • Waltham Symphony Orchestra formed.
• 2010 - Population: 60,632.
• 2011
  • A triple homicide occurs on September 11.^[34]
  • Steampunk City festival begins.^[35]
• 2013 - Katherine Clark becomes Massachusetts's 5th congressional district representative.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Waltham, Massachusetts
• History of Watertown, Massachusetts

other cities in Massachusetts

• Timeline of Boston
• Timeline of Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Gloucester, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Haverhill, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Lawrence, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Lowell, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts
• Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Newburyport, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Salem, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Somerville, Massachusetts
• Timeline of Worcester, Massachusetts

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Barry 1887.
3. Robert F. Dalzell Jr. (1987). Enterprising elite: the Boston Associates and the world they made. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674257650.
4. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
5. "Gleason's Pictorial". 1853.
6. Massachusetts Register. 1856.
7. "Rumford Institute Records, 1826-1887". OCLC WorldCat.
8. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
9. Greenough 1882.
10. Charles Brooks (1852). "The tornado of 1851, in Medford, West Cambridge and Waltham, Middlesex County, Mass". Boston: J. M. Usher. OCLC 1835870.
11. Eaton 1906.
12. Henry Varnum Poor (1860). "History of the railroads and canals of the United States". New York: J.H. Schultz. OCLC 11435390.
13. "Waltham Horological School". Jewelers Review. April 12, 1899.
14. International Pub. Co. 1887.
15. Illustrated Boston 1889.
16. "Obituary: Zenas Parmenter". American Stationer. July 1891.
17. Sesqui-Centennial 1888.
18. "asylumprojects.org".
19. Waltham Museum Inc. "Charles H. Metz and the Waltham Manufacturing Collection: Finding Aid and Inventory" (PDF).
20. "List of Historical Societies in Massachusetts". Old-Time New England. July 1921.
21. "Gore Place". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
22. "History". Waltham: Hovey Players. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
23. "Member Directory". Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
24. "Waltham Garden Club". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
25. "Waltham Museum Inc.". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
26. Boston Globe - Oct 30, 1996
27. "Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
28. Waltham City Directory, 1987–1988, p. 130 – via Waltham Public Library, Global Petroleum Corp.
29. "City of Waltham". Archived from the original on January 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
30. "Waltham Relaunches Official Web Site", Daily News Tribune, June 2, 2002 – via Waltham Public Library
31. "Waltham Land Trust". Retrieved September 28, 2012.
32. "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
33. "Massachusetts". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
34. "Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder". Forward. September 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
35. "Watch City Festival". Retrieved September 28, 2012.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Charles Alexander Nelson (1879). "Waltham, past and present; and its industries". Cambridge: J. Ford & Son, printers.
• Directory of ... Waltham and Watertown. W.A. Greenough & Co. 1882.
• Ephraim L. Barry (1887). "City of Waltham, Massachusetts". Waltham Board of Trade.
• "City of Waltham". Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of Eastern Massachusetts. New York: International Pub. Co. 1887. OCLC 12950135.
• Proceedings at the Celebration of the Sesqui-Centennial of the Town of Waltham, held in Music Hall, on Monday, January 16th, 1888.
• "City of Waltham". Illustrated Boston: the Metropolis of New England (2nd ed.). New York: American Publishing and Engraving Co. 1889.
• Daniel P. Toomey (1892). "Waltham". Massachusetts of Today. Boston: Columbia Publishing Company.
• "Waltham". Anthony's standard business directory and reference book of Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, Lexington, Belmont, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Massachusetts. Anthony Publishing Co. 1898.

Published in the 20th century

• Percival R. Eaton (May 1906). "Works of the Watch City". New England Magazine.
• "Waltham", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Waltham", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Cambridge: Riverside Press

External links

• "Key dates in the history of Waltham, Massachusetts". City of Waltham Community Home Page.
• Items related to Waltham, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
• Images related to Waltham, Mass., various dates (via US Library of Congress)
• Images related to Waltham, various dates (via Boston Public Library)

Images

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  Waltham, 1793

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  Waltham Bank currency, 1862

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  Waltham Sentinel, 1864

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  Map of Waltham, 1877

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  Advertisement, Parment Crayon Co., 1892

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  Advertisement for Metz Co., 1910

Coordinates: 42°22′50″N 71°14′06″W / 42.380596°N 71.235005°W