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History of Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA

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(Romney's Marsh)

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• 1624 - Chelsea is settled
  originally called Winnisimmet
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1739 - Chelsea is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - CHELSEA. [Population, 2,390. Incorporated, 1738.]
  Chelsea (numbered 4) was formerly a part of Boston, and was called Romney's Marsh. Its Indian name was Winnesimet.
  
  The inhabitants were...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Chelsea
  Chelsea, a post-township of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, 5 miles N. E. of Boston. The United States marine hospital in this township has a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1857 - DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION IN CHELSEA - LOSS $50,000.
  From the Boston Traveller.
  
  Thursday night, the city of Chelsea was visited by one of the most destructive fires which has ever taken place there,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1857 - Chelsea is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1859
  CHELSEA, a township in Suffolk co., in Massachusetts, 4 m. NE of Boston. Pop. 2,290.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
• Chelsea Massachusetts, 1890
  CHELSEA is a beautiful and growing city in the northern part of Suffolk County, inhabited largely by people whose daily business is in Boston, — from ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Chelsea
  Chelsea, a city of Suffolk co., Mass, is a northeastern suburb of Boston, and is about 3 miles from the state-house, on the Eastern Railroad. It is...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Washington Ave. (about 1906)
  
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  Soldiers Home and Hospital
  
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  Chelsea Square
  
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  Chelsea Savings Bank
  
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  Chelsea Water Department, 1905
  
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  First National Bank
  
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  Soldiers Home
  
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  Ferry "City of Chelsea"
  
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  Chelsea High School, 1907
  
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  Chelsea Fitz Patrick Library
  
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  Union Park
  
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  First Unitarian Church, 1907
  
•  1908 - BIG FIRE IN CHELSEA CHELSEA, MASS. SWEPT BY A GREAT CONFLAGRATION MANY HAVE TO FLEE FOR LIFE
  Petroleum, Tarred Paper, Old Rags and a Gale Add Fury th(sic) Disaster - Ten Thousand Homeless.
  
  Boston, April 13. - The greatest fire that has...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1908 - WALL KILLS EIGHT. COLLAPSES, CRUSHING WORKMEN, AT CHELSEA, MASS. - 20 MORE INJURED.
  Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 25. - A brick wall forty-five feet high collapsed today in Chelsea Square, burying beneath it some thirty workmen. Eight were...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Ruins of the Great Chelsea Fire, Sunday, April 12, 1908. Frank B. Fay School.
  
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  1908 fire ruins - Odd Fellows Hall and Post Office
  
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  R. S. Frost Hose No. 3, Chelsea Fire Department
  
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  Carey Square, 1909
  
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  Old Ladies Home, 1909
  
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  St. Rose Catholic Church and School
  
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  Armory
  
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  Frost Hospital
  
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  First Methodist Church, 1910
  
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  Chelsea Savings Bank
  
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  Chelsea Trust Company Building and Broadway
  
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  Washington Avenue, 1910
  
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  Williams School, 1910
  
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  Entrance to Chelsea Ferry, 1911
  
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  Broadway, looking North, 1914
  
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  Fire House, Engine 1, 1915
  
• 1916
  Chelsea, a city of Suffolk CO., Mass., is a northeastern Suburb of Boston and is about 3 miles from the state-house, on the Boston and Maine R. It is ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Shurtleff School
  
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  Post Office, 1931