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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.
• 1774 - Settlement established.
• 1791
  • March 4: Town becomes part of the State of Vermont.
  • November 3: University of Vermont founded.
  • Burlington becomes shire town of Chittenden County.
• 1797 - Burlington Mercury newspaper begins publication.

19th century

• 1801 - Vermont Sentinel newspaper begins publication.
• 1802 - Court house built.
• 1804 - Grasse Mount built, now a campus building of the University of Vermont
• 1810 - Population: 1,690.
• 1813 - August 2: Town besieged by British forces.
• 1815 - September: University of Vermont begins operating again.
• 1816 - Unitarian Church built.
• 1823 - Methodist Episcopal Church established.
• 1825 - LaFayette visits town.
• 1826 - Champlain Transportation Company founded.
• 1827
  • Free Press Weekly begins publication.
  • Champlain Glass Company established.
• 1829
  • Lyman block built.
  • Burlington High School and Burlington Fire Company incorporated.
• 1830 - Episcopal Society of Burlington founded.
• 1834 - Baptist church established.
• 1842 - Burlington Mechanics' Institute founded.
• 1845 - Winooski Mill Company established.
• 1847
  • E. & E. Lyman in business.
  • Commercial Bank of Burlington and Burlington Savings Bank chartered.
• 1848 - Central Vermont Railway began operating (until 1995).
• 1849
  • Rutland & Burlington Railroad built.
• 1852 - Burlington Lyceum founded.
• 1853 - Medical College established as part of the University of Vermont.
• 1854
  • Town Hall built.
  • Vermont Episcopal Institute incorporated.
• 1856 - Van Sicklen & Walker grocers in business.
• 1857
  • Custom House built.
  • Burlington Breakwater Lights established.

• 1858
  • Marine Hospital built.
  • Burlington Times newspaper begins publication.
• 1862 - University of Vermont library building constructed.
• 1865
  • Burlington chartered as a city; town of South Burlington established.
  • Albert Catlin becomes mayor.
  • Vermont Agricultural College incorporated with the University of Vermont.
  • Home for Destitute Children founded.
• 1866 - St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum incorporated.
• 1867
  • J.M. Henry & Sons in business.
  • Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.
• 1869 - First Methodist Church of Burlington built.
• 1870
  • City market building constructed.
  • E.S. Fullam & Co. in business.
  • Population: 14,387.
• 1872
  • Winooski & Burlington Horse Railroad incorporated.
  • Wells, Richardson & Co. in business.
• 1873
  • Fletcher Free Library established.
  • County courthouse built.
• 1874 - Park House (hotel) in business.
• 1877 - Howard Opera House built (approximate date).
• 1878 - Burlington Commercial School established.
• 1879 - Mary Fletcher Hospital founded.
• 1880 - Population: 11,365.
• 1884 - Burlington Venetian Blind Company incorporated.
• 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.
• 1889
  • St. Mary's academy founded.
  • Baldwin Refrigerator Company established (approximate date).
• 1890 - Population: 14,590.
• 1894
  • Queen City Cotton Co. incorporated.
  • William J. Van Patten becomes mayor.
  • Burlington Daily News begins publication.
  • Fort Ethan Allen established.
• 1897
  • Burlington Masonic Temple built.
  • Battery Park established.
• 1900 - Population: 18,640.

20th century

• 1902 - Fletcher Free Library re-located.
• 1904 - Strong Theatre opens.
• 1905
  • Burlington Electric Department created.
  • McIntosh and Crandall engineering company in business.
• 1910 - Population: 20,468.
• 1916 - Union Station operated until 1953.
• 1920 - First aircraft lands at Burlington International Airport.
• 1922
  • State Tree Nursery relocates from Burlington to Essex.
  • Champlain Valley Fair begins in nearby Essex.
• 1925 - Trinity College founded.
• 1926 - Ira Allen Chapel dedicated.
• 1930 - Flynn Theatre built.
• 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
  • City Council expands to 13 aldermen.
  • Population: 35,531.
• 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.
• 1983 - City government Community and Economic Development Office established.
• 1989
  • Outright Vermont founded.
  • Peter Clavelle becomes mayor.
• 1990
  • Burlington City Arts established.
  • Cara Wick designs the flag of Burlington as a school project.
• 1993
  • City Council expands to 14 councilors.
  • Population: 39,127.
• 1998 - City website online.
• 2000 - "Legacy Plan" for development created.

21st century

• 2003 - Howard Dean presidential campaign, 2004 headquartered in Burlington.
• 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.
• 2012 - Miro Weinberger becomes mayor.
• 2014 - with the purchase of the Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River electricity comes from 100 percent renewable sources
• 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

• Burlington history
• Burlington, Vermont metropolitan area
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Chittenden County, Vermont

References

1. ^ Britannica 1910.
2. ^ Child 1882.
3. ^ Britannica 1878.
4. ^ Hemenway 1867.
5. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ "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. ^ 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. ^ "Redistricting History". City of Burlington. Archived from the original on August 3, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
27. Rice 1985.
28. ^ 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

External links

• Thomas Visser (ed.). "HP 206 Researching Historic Structures and Sites Projects". University of Vermont, Historic Preservation Program.
• Items related to Burlingon, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
• Images related to Burlington, Vermont, various dates (via New York Public Library)
• Items related to Burlington, Vermont, various dates (via U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos division)

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General	Buildings Climate Flag Government History (timeline) Mayors Media Notable people Transportation
Economy	Bruegger's Burlington International Airport Burton Snowboards Green Mountain Transit (GMT) Church Street Marketplace Burlington Town Center Creston Electric Instruments Dan's Chocolates Gardener's Supply Company Interstate highways I-89 I-189 Lake Champlain Transportation Company Rhino Foods Seventh Generation Inc.
Education	Burlington College Burlington High School Burlington School District Champlain College Rock Point School Trinity College (defunct) University of Vermont University of Vermont Medical Center
Sports	Green Mountain Roller Derby Vermont Catamounts Gutterson Fieldhouse Vermont City Marathon Vermont Lake Monsters Centennial Field Vermont Lumberjacks
Culture	Battery Park The BCA Center Burlington Memorial Auditorium Champ Champlain Valley National Heritage Area ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain House of LeMay Island Line Trail Little Jerusalem Maypo Phish Religion in Burlington Fleming Museum Vermont Mozart Festival

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