page_title: Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: Detail of: Plan of the city of Lynn Mass. from actual surveys Publisher: McIntyre, H. (Henry) Date: 1852 Location: Lynn (Mass.)
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.
context_section_description: 1803 - Floating Bridge constructed on Salem-Boston turnpike.
  1810 - Population: 4,087.
  1812 - Eastern Burial-Place established.
  1814 - Town House built.
  1815
  Saugus separates from Lynn.
  Social Library formed.
  1830 - Lynn Record newspaper begins publication.
  1838
  Eastern Railroad in operation.
  Lynn Natural History Society formed.
  1840 - Population: 9,367.
  1841
  Lyceum building constructed.
  Frederick Douglass moves to Lynn.
  September 28 - Frederick Douglass is thrown off the Eastern Railroad train at Lynn Central Square station for refusing to sit in the segregated coach
  1845 Frederick Douglass writes his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave while living in Lynn
  1848 - First High Rock Tower built.
  1850
  City of Lynn incorporated.
  George Hood becomes mayor.
  Pine Grove Cemetery consecrated.
  1851 - First High School built.
  1852
  May - Swampscott separates from Lynn.
  June - Benjamin Franklin Mudge becomes mayor.
  1853
  February - Saugus Branch Railroad opens for passengers with four stations in Lynn. Lynn's Andrews Breed is the railroad's first superintendent.
  March - Nahant separates from Lynn.
  April - Daniel C. Baker becomes mayor.
  1854 - Lynn Weekly Reporter newspaper begins publication.
  1855
  Andrews Breed becomes mayor.
  Lynn Library Association organized.
  1856
  Ezra W. Mudge becomes mayor.
  African Methodist Episcopal Church established.
  1858
  William F. Johnson becomes mayor.
  Telegraph in service.
  St. Mary's Cemetery consecrated.
  1859 - Edward S. Davis becomes mayor.
  1860 - New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 begins in Lynn
  1861 - Hiram N. Breed becomes mayor.
  1862
  Peter M. Neal becomes mayor.
  Free Public Library established.
  1863 - Boston & Lynn Horse Railroad begins operating.
  1865
  April 19 - original High Rock Tower destroyed by fire
  1866
  Roland G. Usher becomes mayor.
  Mary Baker Eddy experiences the fall in Lynn, believed by Christian Scientists to mark the birth of their religion.
  1867
  City Hall dedicated.
  Lynn Transcript newspaper begins publication.
  1868 - Young Men's Christian Association organized.
  1870
  Edwin Walden becomes mayor.
  Music Hall opens.
  1872
  Labor strike by shoemakers.
  James N. Buffum becomes mayor.
  Odd Fellows Hall built.
  Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad chartered.
  1873
  Jacob M. Lewis becomes mayor.
  Soldiers' Monument installed.
  1876 - Lynn City Item newspaper begins publication.
  1877 - Samuel M. Bubier becomes mayor.
  1879
  January - George Plaisted Sanderson becomes mayor.
  June - 250th anniversary of settlement.
  1880 - Lynn Masonic Hall built.
  1881
  Henry B. Lovering elected mayor.
  Lynn Woods established.
  St. Stephen's Memorial Episcopal Church built.
  Saint Mary's Boys High School established.
  1882 - Lynn's Henry B. Lovering is elected to the United States House of Representatives.
  1883
  William L. Baird becomes mayor.
  Thomson-Houston Electric Company in business.
  1885
  John R. Baldwin becomes mayor.
  G.A.R. Hall built.
  1886 - George D. Hart becomes mayor.
  1887
  English High School established.
  Henry Cabot Lodge becomes Massachusetts's 6th congressional district representative.
  1888
  March 11-14 Lynn and all of Massachusetts are crippled by the Great Blizzard of 1888
  George C. Higgins becomes mayor.
  Thomson-Houston Electric Company powers the first electric streetcar in Massachusetts: the Highland Circuit of the Lynn & Boston Railway Company
  1889
  Asa T. Newhall becomes mayor.
  A fire sweeps through the downtown, destroying a large swath of commercial and retail space.
  1890 - Fabens Building and Tapley Building constructed.
  1891
  E. Knowlton Fogg becomes mayor.
  Lynn Bank Block and Mowers' Block built.
  1892
  Elihu B. Hayes becomes mayor.
  General Electric formed by a merger of Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York and Thomson-Houston Electric Company of Lynn.
  Lynn English High School on Essex Street opens
  Lynn Classical High School opened.
  1893 - Lynn Armory built.
  1894 - Charles E. Harwood becomes mayor.
  1895 - Boston and Maine's Central Square station rebuilt.
  1896
  Eugene A. Besson becomes mayor.
  Post Office built.
  1897
  Walter L. Ramsdell becomes m
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