Timeline of Burlington, Vermont

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Burlington, Vermont, USA

Prior to 19th century

  • 1763 - Town charter granted by the British Province of New Hampshire.[1]
  • 1774 - Settlement established.[1]
  • 1791
    • March 4: Town becomes part of the State of Vermont.
    • November 3: University of Vermont founded.[2][3]
    • Burlington becomes shire town of Chittenden County.[4]
  • 1797 - Burlington Mercury newspaper begins publication.[5]

19th century

  • 1801 - Vermont Sentinel newspaper begins publication.[5]
  • 1802 - Court house built.[4]
  • 1804 - Grasse Mount built, now a campus building of the University of Vermont
  • 1810 - Population: 1,690.[6]
  • 1813 - August 2: Town besieged by British forces.
  • 1815 - September: University of Vermont begins operating again.[2]
  • 1816 - Unitarian Church built.
  • 1823 - Methodist Episcopal Church established.[7]
  • 1825 - LaFayette visits town.[2]
  • 1826 - Champlain Transportation Company founded.[8]
  • 1827
  • 1829
    • Lyman block built.[2]
    • Burlington High School and Burlington Fire Company incorporated.[10]
  • 1830 - Episcopal Society of Burlington founded.[8]
  • 1834 - Baptist church established.[11]
  • 1842 - Burlington Mechanics' Institute founded.[12]
  • 1845 - Winooski Mill Company established.[4]
  • 1847
    • E. & E. Lyman in business.[2]
    • Commercial Bank of Burlington and Burlington Savings Bank chartered.[2]
  • 1848 - Central Vermont Railway began operating (until 1995).[1]
  • 1849
    • Rutland & Burlington Railroad built.[13][14]
  • 1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.[12]
  • 1853 - Medical College established as part of the University of Vermont.[2]
  • 1854
    • Town Hall built.[4]
    • Vermont Episcopal Institute incorporated.[2]
  • 1856 - Van Sicklen & Walker grocers in business.[2]
  • 1857
    • Custom House built.[4]
    • Burlington Breakwater Lights established.[3]
  • 1858
    • Marine Hospital built.[2]
    • Burlington Times newspaper begins publication.[5]
  • 1862 - University of Vermont library building constructed.[2]
  • 1865
    • Burlington chartered as a city;[1] town of South Burlington established.[15]
    • Albert Catlin becomes mayor.[16]
    • Vermont Agricultural College incorporated with the University of Vermont.[2][3]
    • Home for Destitute Children founded.[2]
  • 1866 - St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum incorporated.[2]
  • 1867
    • J.M. Henry & Sons in business.[2]
    • Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.[1]
  • 1869 - First Methodist Church of Burlington built.
  • 1870
    • City market building constructed.[2]
    • E.S. Fullam & Co. in business.[2]
    • Population: 14,387.[3]
  • 1872
    • Winooski & Burlington Horse Railroad incorporated.[17]
    • Wells, Richardson & Co. in business.[2]
  • 1873
    • Fletcher Free Library established.[18]
    • County courthouse built.[2]
  • 1874 - Park House (hotel) in business.[2]
  • 1877 - Howard Opera House built (approximate date).[2]
  • 1878 - Burlington Commercial School established.[2]
  • 1879 - Mary Fletcher Hospital founded.[1]
  • 1880 - Population: 11,365.[1]
  • 1884 - Burlington Venetian Blind Company incorporated.[19]
  • 1885
  • 1886 - Daniel Webster Robinson House built.
  • 1887 - Cathedral of Saint Joseph completed.
  • 1888 - Burlington Cotton Mills incorporated.[20]
  • 1889
    • St. Mary's academy founded.[1]
    • Baldwin Refrigerator Company established (approximate date).[8]
  • 1890 - Population: 14,590.[1]
  • 1894
  • 1897
  • 1900 - Population: 18,640.[1]

20th century

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Child 1882.
  3. ^ a b c d Britannica 1878.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Hemenway 1867.
  5. ^ a b c d Charles S. Forbes (August 1905). "History of Vermont Newspapers". The Vermonter. 11 (1).
  6. ^ Morse 1823.
  7. ^ C. A. Castle (1903), History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Free Press Association, OL 2673435M
  8. ^ a b c d e Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library. "Finding Aids". Burlington: University of Vermont. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  9. ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  10. ^ Thompson, Daniel Pierce (1835). "List of all local and private act passed from 1824 to 1835". Laws of Vermont. Montpelier, Vermont.
  11. ^ Henry Crocker (1913), History of the Baptists in Vermont, Bellows Falls, Vt.: P.H. Gobie Press, OL 13497208M
  12. ^ a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  13. ^ "Rutland Railroad Archives at Middlebury College". Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  14. ^ "Vermont Timeline". Barre, VT: Vermont Historical Society. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  15. ^ Appleton 1870.
  16. ^ a b "Mayors of Burlington, 1865-present". City of Burlington. Archived from the original on August 27, 1999.
  17. ^ "Street Railway Supplement", Commercial and Financial Chronicle, NY, March 9, 1895
  18. ^ "Fletcher Free Library", Report of the Board of Library Commissioners of Vermont, 1896
  19. ^ Auld 1894.
  20. ^ a b Blue Book Textile Directory of the United States and Canada. 1901.
  21. ^ Charter 1897.
  22. ^ "Movie Theaters in Burlington, VT". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  23. ^ "History of Forestry in Vermont". State of Vermont, Department of Forests Parks & Recreation. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  24. ^ "About Us". Essex Junction, VT: Champlain Valley Exposition, Inc. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  25. ^ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  26. ^ a b c d "Redistricting History". City of Burlington. Archived from the original on August 3, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  27. ^ Rice 1985.
  28. ^ a b Woodard 2016.
  29. ^ "History of BCA". Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  30. ^ "City of Burlington, VT Home Page". Archived from the original on 5 December 1998.
  31. ^ "Contact the Campaign". Dean for America. Archived from the original on January 29, 2004.
  32. ^ Briggs, John (10 August 2010). "Burns leaving Burlington Telecom". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. pp. 1A, 5A. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010.
  33. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  34. ^ AP: 100% of power for Vermont city now renewable

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century
  • Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Burlington", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
  • Zadock Thompson (1824), "Burlington", A Gazetteer of the State of Vermont, E. P. Walton, OCLC 5276863
  • John Hayward (1857), "Burlington, Vt.", New England Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Boston: Otis Clapp, OCLC 3441657
  • Walton, Joseph Soper (1866). "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont Manufacturing Company. hdl:2027/wu.89063116057.
  • Abby Maria Hemenway, ed. (1867), "Burlington", Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Burlington, Vt.: A.M. Hemenway
  • "Burlington, Vt.", Appleton's Handbook of American Travel: Northern and Eastern Tour, New York: D. Appleton, 1870
  • "Burlington (1.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (9th ed.). 1878. p. 550.
  • "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1877. + 1879 ed.
  • "City of Burlington". Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont. NY: Hamilton Child. 1882.
  • Burlington, Vt. as a Manufacturing, Business, and Commercial Center. Burlington Board of Trade. 1889.
  • "Industries and Wealth of Burlington". Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Vermont. NY: American Publishing and Engraving Co. 1891.
  • Joseph Auld (1894), Picturesque Burlington, Burlington, Vt: Free Press Association, OL 14034397M
  • Charter & Revised General Ordinances of the City of Burlington, Vt. 1897.
  • Charles S. Forbes (1900). "Twentieth Century Burlington". The Vermonter. 5.
Published in the 20th century
  • Katharine Lord (1904). Address book of Burlington, Vermont: 1904-5. Burlington: F. L. Lane & Company.
  • Charles Edwin Allen (1905), About Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Shanley
  • "Burlington (Vermont)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 837–838.
  • "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. 1910.
  • Federal Writers’ Project (1937). "Burlington". Vermont: a Guide to the Green Mountain State. American Guide Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. + Chronology
  • Tom W. Rice (1985). "Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont". Polity. 17 (4): 795–806. doi:10.2307/3234575. JSTOR 3234575. S2CID 153889856.
  • George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Burlington, Vermont", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
Published in the 21st century
  • James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, ed. (5 April 2017), "City Makers: American Futures", The Atlantic (series of articles about Burlington, Vt.), 2014-
  • Colin Woodard (November 17, 2016), "America's First All-Renewable-Energy City", Politico

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