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1800 |
Newburyport Population - 5,946; houses 806 |
1800 |
Captain Edmund Bartlet gave fourteen hundred dollars to improve Mall, which then received the name of "Bartlet Mall" |
1800 |
Town purchases land under Reverend Carey's meetinghouse for $8,000, now Market Square; new meetinghouse completed on Pleasant Street in 1801 |
1800 |
Four stage coaches employed between Boston and Newburyport |
1800 |
Public bathing house opened |
1800 |
New Hill Cemetery established, now known as Highland Cemetery on the corner of Hill and Pond Streets |
1801 |
First Religious Society, Unitarian Church completed on Pleasant Street; meetinghouse in Market Square razed |
1801-1809 |
President of the United States Thomas Jefferson |
1805 |
Court house built on Bartlet Mall |
1805 |
Newburyport turnpike opened |
1805 |
Plum Island turnpike and bridge opened to public |
1808 |
Lighthouses on Plum Island blown down by violent tornado |
1809-1817 |
President of the United States James Madison |
1809 |
Soup houses for relief of poor established in winter |
1809 |
Old wooden Town House, corner of State and Essex Streets, torn down in May |
1810 |
Newburyport population - 7,634 |
1810 |
Brick Town House built on same site - corner of State and Essex Streets |
1810 |
Essex Merrimac Bridge rebuilt, being the first in New England with chain draw |
1811 |
Great Fire May 31, destroying downtown Newburyport |
1811 |
June, Act passed by Town against erecting wooden buildings over ten feet high |
1812 |
War declared June 18, with Great Britain and ends in 1815 |
1813 |
Observatory erected on Lunt's Hill, now March's Hill, to watch the shoreline for enemy ships |
1813 |
Temporary fort erected on Plum Island, summer |
1813 |
Selectmen give notice that a hearse is provided for use of town |
1813 |
British ships of war lying off the harbor, November |
1815 |
Peace with Great Britain announced |
1817-1825 |
President of the United States James Munroe |
1817 |
President Munroe visits Newburyport |
1818 |
Howard Benevolent Society formed; still exists today |
1819 |
West Newbury incorporated |
1820 |
Newburport population - 6,852 |
1820 |
Maine separated from Massachusetts and admitted to Union |
1820 |
Institution for Savings Bank incorporated |
1823 |
Market Hall (firehouse) built |
1824 |
General Marquis de Lafayette visits |
1829-1837 |
President of the United States Andrew Jackson |
1826 |
Caleb Cushing's The History and Present State of the Town of Newburyport published |
1827 |
Special survey of harbor ordered by United States completed; water temporarily deepened on the bar |
1827 |
Newburyport Bridge to Salisbury opened |
1830 |
Newburyport population - 6,375 |
1832 |
Coal coming into general use |
1832 |
William Lloyd Garrison refused a second opportunity of speaking on slavery in Newburyport |
1832 |
Town vote that the law forbidding the erection of wooden buildings (downtown) over ten feet high "is prejudicial to the interests of the town," and ought to be repealed |
1832 |
Plum Island Bridge washed away; 1837 rebuilt |
1835 |
Custom House on Water Street built and designed by Robert Mills |
1835 |
Society for Relief of Aged Females organized; later managed the Wheelwright Home for Aged Women |
1837-1841 |
President of the United States Martin Van Buren (first President of the United States to be born an American citizen, rather than a British subject). |
1838 |
Notifications for town meetings advertised in the Newburyport Herald instead of being "nailed on the First Parish meeting-house," (location now Market Square) |
1839 |
Water pipes laid from Frog Pond to Brown's Square |
1840 |
Newburyport population - 7,161 |
1840 |
Female schools established during the winter season |
1840 |
Band music on Bartlet Mall during the summer evenings |
1840 |
Eastern Railroad opened to Newburyport |
1841 |
President of the United States William Henry Harrison (Harrison delivered a marathon inaugural speech, caught a cold, and died a month later) |
1841-1845 |
President of the United States John Tyler |
1842 |
Oak Hill Cemetery consecrated |
1845 |
Joshua Coffin's History of Ould Newbury, West Newbury, and Newburyport, published |
1845-1849 |
President of the United States James K. Polk |
1846 |
Steamboats on Merrimac in operation |
1846 |
First Directory of Newburyport published, containing 2,162 names |
1847 |
Houses first numbered |
1847 |
Magnetic Telegraph office opened December 25 |
1847 |
A Relic of the Revolutionn, a diary by Charles Herbert of his stay in Mill Prison, Plymouth, England, 1776-1779 |
1849-1850 |
President of the United States Zachary Taylor (died in office) |
1850 |
Newburyport population - 9,572; Boston population - 136,881 |
1850 |
Cornerstone of the new Town Hall (City Hall) on Pleasant Street, laid July 4; completed 1851 |
1850-1853 |
President of the United States Millard Filmore |