Timeline of Burlington, Vermont
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Burlington, Vermont, USA
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Prior to 19th century
- 1765 - 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]
- Burlington becomes shire town of Chittenden County.[3]
- 1797 - Burlington Mercury newspaper begins publication.[4]
19th century
- 1801 - Vermont Sentinel newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1802 - Court house built.[3]
- 1810 - Population: 1,690.[5]
- 1813 - August 2: Town besieged by British forces.
- 1815 - September: University of Vermont begins operating again.[2]
- 1823 - Methodist Episcopal Church established.[6]
- 1825 - LaFayette visits town.[2]
- 1826 - Champlain Transportation Company founded.[7]
- 1827
- Free Press Weekly begins publication.[8]
- Champlain Glass Company established.[3]
- 1829
- 1830 - Episcopal Society of Burlington founded.[7]
- 1834 - Baptist church established.[10]
- 1842 - Burlington Mechanics' Institute founded.[11]
- 1845 - Winooski Mill Company established.[3]
- 1847
- 1849
- Rutland & Burlington Railroad built.[12][13]
- Central Vermont Railway begins operating.
- 1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.[11]
- 1853 - Medical College established as part of the University of Vermont.[2]
- 1854
- 1856 - Van Sicklen & Walker grocers in business.[2]
- 1857 - Custom House built.[3]
- 1858
- 1862 - University of Vermont library building constructed.[2]
- 1865
- 1866 - St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum incorporated.[2]
- 1867 - J.M. Henry & Sons in business.[2]
- 1869 - First Methodist Church of Burlington built.
- 1870
- 1872
- 1873
- 1874 - Park House (hotel) in business.[2]
- 1877 - Howard Opera House built (approximate date).[2]
- 1878 - Burlington Commercial School established.[2]
- 1880 - Population: 11,365.[1]
- 1884 - Burlington Venetian Blind Company incorporated.[18]
- 1885 - Urban A. Woodbury becomes mayor.
- 1888 - Burlington Cotton Mills incorporated.[19]
- 1889
- 1890 - Population: 14,590.[1]
- 1894
- Queen City Cotton Co. incorporated.[19]
- William J. Van Patten becomes mayor.
- Burlington Daily News begins publication.[4]
- 1897
- Burlington Masonic Temple built.
- Battery Park established.[20]
- 1900 - Population: 18,640.[1]
20th century
- 1904 - Strong Theatre opens.[21]
- 1905
- Burlington Electric Department created.
- McIntosh and Crandall engineering company in business.[7]
- 1922
- 1925 - Trinity College founded.[7]
- 1930 - Flynn Theatre built.[24]
- 1948 - U.S. Coast Guard Station Burlington established on Juniper Island.
- 1953 - Ethan Allen Air Force Base activated.
- 1964 - Burlington High School moves to current location; as part of a major realignment of the city's schools, Edmunds Elementary opens on the former campus replacing Adams (sold off and repurposed as office space) and Converse (demolished in urban renewal) schools.
- 1967
- 1969 - HowardCenter headquartered in city.
- 1973 - Burlington International Airport new terminal opens.
- 1977 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.
- 1978 - Ben & Jerry's in business.
- 1981
- Church Street Marketplace constructed.
- Bernie Sanders becomes mayor.[26]
- 1983 - City government Community and Economic Development Office established.[27]
- 1989
- Outright Vermont founded.
- Peter Clavelle becomes mayor.[15]
- 1990 - Burlington City Arts established.[28]
- 1993
- 1998 - City website online.[29]
- 2000 - "Legacy Plan" for development created.[27]
21st century
- 2003 - Howard Dean presidential campaign, 2004 headquartered in Burlington.[30]
- 2006 - Bob Kiss becomes mayor.
- 2009 - Vermont Daily News begins publication.
- 2010 - Population: 42,417.
- 2012 - Miro Weinberger becomes mayor.[31]
- 2014 - with the purchase of the Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River electricity comes from 100 percent renewable sources[32]
- 2015 - Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016 headquartered in Burlington.
See also
- Burlington history
- Burlington, Vermont metropolitan area
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Chittenden County, Vermont
- Timeline of Vermont[33]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Child 1882.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hemenway 1867.
- 1 2 3 4 Charles S. Forbes (August 1905). "History of Vermont Newspapers". The Vermonter. 11 (1).
- ↑ Morse 1823.
- ↑ C. A. Castle (1903), History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Free Press Association
- 1 2 3 4 5 Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library. "Finding Aids". Burlington: University of Vermont. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "List of all local and private act passed from 1824 to 1835". Laws of Vermont. Montpelier, Vermont. 1835.
- ↑ Henry Crocker (1913), History of the Baptists in Vermont, Bellows Falls, Vt.: P.H. Gobie Press
- 1 2 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Rutland Railroad Archives at Middlebury College". Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Vermont Timeline". Barre, VT: Vermont Historical Society. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ Appleton 1870.
- 1 2 "Mayors of Burlington, 1865-present". City of Burlington. Archived from the original on August 27, 1999.
- ↑ "Street Railway Supplement", Commercial and Financial Chronicle, NY, March 9, 1895
- ↑ "Fletcher Free Library", Report of the Board of Library Commissioners of Vermont, 1896
- ↑ Auld 1894.
- 1 2 Blue Book Textile Directory of the United States and Canada. 1901.
- ↑ Charter 1897.
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Burlington, VT". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "History of Forestry in Vermont". State of Vermont, Department of Forests Parks & Recreation. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "About Us". Essex Junction, VT: Champlain Valley Exposition, Inc. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 "Redistricting History". City of Burlington. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ Rice 1985.
- 1 2 Woodard 2016.
- ↑ "History of BCA". Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "City of Burlington, VT Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Contact the Campaign". Dean for America. Archived from the original on January 29, 2004.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ AP: 100% of power for Vermont city now renewable
- ↑ Federal Writers’ Project 1937, p. 371: "Chronology"
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
- "Burlington". Walton's Vermont Register. Claremont Manufacturing Company. 1866.
- 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". 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
- 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. Address book of Burlington, Vermont: 1904-5. Burlington.
- Charles Edwin Allen (1905), About Burlington, Vermont, Burlington: Shanley
- "Burlington", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- "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. JSTOR 3234575.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Burlington, Vermont", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
- Published in the 21st century
- James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (ed.), "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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Coordinates: 44°28′33″N 73°12′43″W / 44.475833°N 73.211944°W
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