The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Burlington, Vermont, USA
Prior to 19th century edit
- 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 edit
- 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
- Free Press Weekly begins publication.[9]
- Champlain Glass Company established.[4]
- 1829
- 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
- 1848 - Central Vermont Railway began operating (until 1995).[1]
- 1849
- Rutland & Burlington Railroad built.[13][14]
- Central Vermont Railway begins operating.
- 1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.[12]
- 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.[4]
- Burlington Breakwater Lights established.[3]
- 1858
- 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
- 1872
- 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
- Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue built.
- Urban A. Woodbury becomes mayor.
- 1886 - Daniel Webster Robinson House built.
- 1887 - Cathedral of Saint Joseph completed.
- 1888 - Burlington Cotton Mills incorporated.[20]
- 1889
- 1890 - Population: 14,590.[1]
- 1894
- Queen City Cotton Co. incorporated.[20]
- William J. Van Patten becomes mayor.
- Burlington Daily News begins publication.[5]
- Fort Ethan Allen established.[1]
- 1897
- Burlington Masonic Temple built.[1]
- Battery Park established.[21]
- 1900 - Population: 18,640.[1]
20th century edit
- 1902 - Fletcher Free Library re-located.
- 1904 - Strong Theatre opens.[22]
- 1905
- Burlington Electric Department created.
- McIntosh and Crandall engineering company in business.[8]
- 1910 - Population: 20,468.[1]
- 1916 - Union Station operated until 1953.
- 1920 - First aircraft lands at Burlington International Airport.
- 1922
- 1925 - Trinity College founded.[8]
- 1926 - Ira Allen Chapel dedicated.
- 1930 - Flynn Theatre built.[25]
- 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 - Howard Center headquartered in city.
- 1972 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception destroyed by arson.
- 1973 - Burlington International Airport new terminal opens.
- 1977 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception re-built (closed 2018)
- 1978 - Ben & Jerry's in business.
- 1981
- Church Street Marketplace constructed.
- Bernie Sanders becomes mayor.[27]
- 1983 - City government Community and Economic Development Office established.[28]
- 1989
- Outright Vermont founded.
- Peter Clavelle becomes mayor.[16]
- 1990
- Burlington City Arts established.[29]
- Cara Wick designs the flag of Burlington as a school project.
- 1993
- 1998 - City website online.[30]
- 2000 - "Legacy Plan" for development created.[28]
21st century edit
- 2003 - Howard Dean presidential campaign, 2004 headquartered in Burlington.[31]
- 2006 - Bob Kiss becomes mayor.
- 2009 - Vermont Daily News begins publication.
- 2010
- Population: 42,417
- The city-owned Burlington Telecom cable provider is unable to pay the city of Burlington the $17 million it owes. As a result, Moody's downrates the debt for the city to A2, "upper medium". Moody's also downrates the credit rating for Burlington International Airport.[32]
- 2012 - Miro Weinberger becomes mayor.[33]
- 2014 - with the purchase of the Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River electricity comes from 100 percent renewable sources[34]
- 2015 - Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016 headquartered in Burlington.
- 2017 - Owen and Lucas Marchessault win a competition to redesign the former flag of Burlington. Their winning design is the current flag of the city.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Child 1882.
- ^ a b c d Britannica 1878.
- ^ a b c d e f Hemenway 1867.
- ^ a b c d 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, OL 2673435M
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ Thompson, Daniel Pierce (1835). "List of all local and private act passed from 1824 to 1835". Laws of Vermont. Montpelier, Vermont.
- ^ Henry Crocker (1913), History of the Baptists in Vermont, Bellows Falls, Vt.: P.H. Gobie Press, OL 13497208M
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b 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. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Redistricting History". City of Burlington. Archived from the original on August 3, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ^ Rice 1985.
- ^ a b Woodard 2016.
- ^ "History of BCA". Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ^ "City of Burlington, VT Home Page". Archived from the original on 5 December 1998.
- ^ "Contact the Campaign". Dean for America. Archived from the original on January 29, 2004.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ^ AP: 100% of power for Vermont city now renewable
Bibliography edit
- 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
- . 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
- . 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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