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Essex, Mass.
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This chronology lists history of schools, firehouses, churches, mills, and other buildings in Essex. It also lists roads, canal, and railroad activity.
See also the general Essex history, or chronology of Weather phenomona and epidemics
YEAR EVENT 1650 "Latin School" established in Chebacco to prepare youths for Cambridge 1654 Road from Ipswich to Chebacco laid out (little more than a footpath) 1656 First sawmill in Chebacco 1679 Sills laid for a meeting house in Chebacco; work halted by court order. Building raised, despite order, through efforts of the women of the Parish (April)
Building completed (July) following court permission1681 First Meeting House dedicated. Gallery and turret added.
Parsonage built for John Wise, near the Meeting House1687 Spring Street opened when John Cogswell divided his 300 acre grant among his four sons. 1695 Nathaniel Rust, the first schoolmaster, began teaching in a room in his home (now on John Wise Ave.) 1700 In Chebacco were a church, a school, five sawmills, one shipyard, three bridges, and two causeways. 1702 First school house erected (on the common) 1712 Tanning yard established alongside brook, in back of Burying Ground 1718 New (second) Meeting House built on the common 1733 A Pound constructed 1741 School held in a house at the Falls two months each year 1742 School sessions held two months at the Falls, two months on the South side of the River, and two months at the schoolhouse on the Common (an annual arrangement) 1752 Separatists' new meeting house built on site of present Congregational Church 1754 Sixth Parish purchased property on spring Street as location for parsonage for Mr. Cleaveland 1757 First schoolhouse sold; second schoolhouse built on same site. 1761 First schoolhouse at Falls 1774 A pound, built of stone, established. 1779 First schoolhouse built on south side of Chebacco River 1793 New Meeting House constructed on site of third meeting house (present Congregational Church) 1797 Bell cast by Paul Revere installed in meeting house 1800 A new schoolhouse was built as the Falls, on the site of the first one. 1801 A second schoolhouse built on the south side of the river
A new schoolhouse in the North district1809 The Christian Baptist society erected a meeting house on site of present United Methodist Church 1817 New road to Manchester built 1819 Chebacco Parish, separated from the Town of Ipswich by the Massachusetts Legislature; incorporated as the Town of Essex 1821 Essex Canal opened, for moving timbers between the Merrimac and Chebacco Rivers 1824 Engine house built across from congregational church at site of present White Elephant Shop. Engine and equipment purchased by Town. 1834 A new "poor house" built in the town
A bark mill established at the Falls for a tanning business1835 A school house constructed in the center of Essex (now the Shipbuilding Museum) 1836 The Universalist church constructed in the center of Essex 1841 New schoolhouse in the South District 1842 Congregational Meeting House remodeled to provide a second-floor Sanctuary and a first-floor meeting hall. The selectmen occupy an office in the corner of the meeting hall 1845 Schoolhouse built in the East District 1851 New engine house on Thompson Island, near the causeway
New fire engine for the town1854 Horse/ carriage sheds built at Congregational Meeting House 1860 Records indicate operation of four rope-walks in Essex at this time 1864 Hardy's Hall and the engine house at the end of the causeway destroyed by fire 1865 Construction of a new engine house on the causeway 1867 First Essex post office located in Richardson's Hall 1893 Construction of Essex Town Hall; transfer of all Town offices and all Town meetings from the Congregational Meeting House to the new building 1946 Universalist church destroyed by fire. Rebuilt on same site.
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