History of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA

• 1730 - Fitchburg is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1764 - Fitchburg is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1845 - FITCHBURG. [Pop. 2,604. Inc. 1764.]
  Fitchburg, originally a part of Lunenburg, and including a part of Ashby, was probably named after John Fitch, one of its own citizens at the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Fitchburg
  This town was originally a part of the town of Lunenburg, and wholly included in the grant made to the proprietors of Turkey Hill. It was...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1854 - The Destructive Gate - Its Effects at the East.
  ...In Fitchburg, the large brick engine-house, belonging to the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad Company, was blown over with a tremendous crash, a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Fitchburg
  Fitchburg, a thriving post-town of Worcester co., Mass., 50 miles N.W. of Boston, is the terminus of three important railroads, has 2 banks and 1...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1872 - Fitchburg is incorporated as a city
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
•  1887 - HORSE CAR ACCIDENT. A PANIC ON A STREET RAILWAY RESULTS FATALLY.
  Fitchburg, Mass., July 5. - (Special Telegram to the Bee) -- A terrible accident occurred yesterday afternoon of the Fitchburg horse railroad in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1889 - A Narrow Escape.
  George E. Hayward narrowly escaped being crushed by the falling of a gravel roof about 6 p.m., Friday. The wooden ell of the brick building, 337 and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Fitchburg Massachusetts, 1890
  FITCHBURG is a flourishing manufacturing city, the semi-capital of Worcester County, situated in its northeasterly section, 50 miles from Boston by...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1893 - Fire
  Fire caught on W. A. Garno's boiler and engine house, probably from the furnace, about 9 p. m., Saturday, and an alarm was rung in from Box 37, to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Fitchburg
  Fitch'burg, a city and one of the capitals of Worcester co., Mass., on the Nashua River, 50 miles W.N.W. of Boston, and 26 miles N. of Worcester. It...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Summer St. Fire Station
  
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  Depot
  
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  Depot Square
  
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  High School
  
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  Pearl Hill from Blossom St., Fitchburg, Mass., 1905
  
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  Main Street, looking East, 1906
  
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  Post Office, 1906
  
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  Wallace Library and Art Museum
  First Baptist Church (1906)
  
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  Day Street and First Universalist Church, 1907
  
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  The Lawn and Cafe Whalom Park, Fitchburg, Mass., 1907
  
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  The Lake, Whalom Park, Fitchburg, Mass., 1908
  
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  The Upper Common, 1908
  
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  Main Street from Depot Square
  
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  Swedish Lutheran Church, 1909
  
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  Bird's Eye View of Fitchburg, Mass.
  
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  Cleghorn, Fitchburg, Mass., 1910
  
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  Garage. Corner of Elm and Prichard Sts.
  
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  Highland Avenue, 1910
  
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  County Jail
  
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  Police Station No. 1
  
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  Rollstone Hill - Cleghorn, Fitchburg, Mass.
  
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  B. & M. Railroad Tracks from Kimball St. Foot Bridge, 1910
  
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  Fitchburg, Mass., Wachusett Lake and Mountain, 1910
  
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  Prospect Street looking North (1911)
  
•  1912 - WRECK ON BOSTON & MAINE.
  Two Killed When Engine and Train Have a Collision.
  
  FITCHBURG, Mass., Nov. 16. - One railroad employe[sic] was killed, another probably fatally...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Christ Church, Episcopal, 1914
  
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  Orswell Mills, West Fitchburg, Mass., 1914
  
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  Central Fire Station, 1915
  
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  Burbank Hospital
  
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  Y.M.C.A. Building, 1915
  
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  Fitchburg State Normal School (1915)
  
• 1916
  Fitchburg, a city and one of the capitals of Worcester co. Mass., on the Nashua River, 50 miles WNW. of Boston, and on the Boston and Maine and the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Hastings Hall
  
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  State Teachers' College
  
•  1927 - Flood
  ...A railroad accident was averted at Fitchburg, Mass., early today when police flagged a Boston and Main train after discovering a washout...
  The Oelwein Daily Register
  Iowa
  November 4, 1927
  
  
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  Main St. Looking East from Upper Common
  
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  Main Street, 1946
  
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  Crocker Burbank Paper Mill
  
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  St. Bernard High School
  St. Bernard's Church
  1955