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1769
Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club

    

1770
Paul Revere engraves the events in King Street.

   
   
    
   

1772
Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip

    

1783
Boston establishes annual July 4 oration

   
    
   

1791
Massachusetts Historical Society founded

    

1799
East India Marine Society established in Salem, Massachusetts

   
    
   

1815
Henry Sargent paints "The Landing of the Fathers"

    

1817
Pres. James Monroe consecrates Bunker Hill battle site

   
    
   

1818
Daniel Wadsworth commissions a portrait of the Charter Oak

1818
John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall

   
    
   

1820
Daniel Webster speaks at Plymouth bicentennial

    

1821
Essex Institute founded

   
    
   

1822
Rhode Island Historical Society founded

    

1823
New Hampshire Historical Society founded

   
    
   

1824
Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth

1824
Lafayette feted in America

   
   

1824
Bunker Hill monument begun

    

1825
Connecticut Historical Society founded

   
    
   

1829
First performance of "Metamora"

    

1830
Monument erected at Fort Griswold

   
    
   

1835
George Robert Twelves Hewes feted in Providence and Boston

1835
Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves.

   
    
   

1836
John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"

1836
William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip

   
   

1836
Eliza Susan Quincy portrays procession at Harvard's 200th Anniversary

   
    

1837
John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm

   
   

1837
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" sung at the dedication of the North Bridge Battle Monument.

    

1842
Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.

   
   
   

1842
Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford

    

1845
New England Historic Genealogical Society Founded

   
    
   

1847
Sarah Hale, ed. of Godey's begins Thanksgiving campaign

    

1848
Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York

   
    
   

1851
Horace Bushnell speaks at Litchfield County Centennial

    

1856
Charter Oak toppled in a wind storm

   
    
   

1858
Winslow Homer illustrates rural New England life. .

1858
Crispus Attucks Day celebrated at African Meeting House

   
    
   

1860
Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"

    

1864
U.S. Sanitary Commission sponsors "Colonial Kitchens"

   
    
   

1866
Peabody Museum founded at Harvard

    

1868
Winslow Homer illustrates life in Lowell Mills

   
   

1868
Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House"

    

1869
American Museum of Natural History founded in New York

   
   

1869
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association founded in Deerfield, Massachusetts

    

1870
Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded

   
   

1870
Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York

1870
Winslow Homer engraving, "The Dinner Horn"

   
    
   

1873
Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.

    

1876
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

   
    
   

1879
The Boston Antiquarian Club rescues the Old State House

1879
Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut"

   
    
   

1880
Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield

    

1881
Nantucket's Coffin House restored

   
   

1881
Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village.

    

1885
Boston proposes a statue of Paul Revere

   
    
   

1887
Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison"

1887
Mass. Historical Society protests Boston Massacre monument

   
    
   

1888
Crispus Attucks Monument dedicated

    

1889
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant

   
    
   

1890
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Founded

1890
Alice Baker returns to Deerfield to restore her ancestral home, Frary House.

   
    
   

1891
Bennington Battle Monument erected

    

1893
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

   
    
   

1895
Eliza Philbrick creates a "Colonial Gown" for a DAR party in Boston

    

1896
Blue and White Society formed in Deerfield

   
    
   

1897
New England Historic Genealogical Society Admits Women

1897
Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Founded

   
    
   

1898
Emily Tyson purchases the 1785 Hamilton House, the setting for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Tory Lover."

    

1900
Old Gaol opened in York, Maine

   
   

1900
Plymouth Blanket Society formed to make "rose blankets"

    

1901
Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House

   
    
   

1903
Elizabeth C. B. Buel , "The Tale of the Spinning Wheel"

    

1904
Wallace Nutting launches a career as a historical entrepreneur

   
   

1904
Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.

    

1905
Paul Revere House saved from demolition

   
   
    
   

1907
Period rooms opened in Essex Institute

    

1908
House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded

   
    
   

1910
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) founded

    

1915
Statue of Anne Hutchinson erected on Beacon Hill

   
    
   

1922
Antiques Magazine launched

    

1926
John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia

   
    
   

1928
A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine

    

1929
Henry Ford funds Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan

   
    
   

1930
Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation

    

1931
Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

   
   

1931
Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan.

1931
Polish Legion of American Veterans chartered.

   
    
   

1935
Yankee magazine founded

1935
Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open

   
   

1935
Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village

    

1942
Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established

   
   

1942
Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site

    

1947
Old Sturbridge Village created

   
   

1947
Plimoth Plantation founded

1947
Shelburne Museum established

   
    
   

1952
Historic Deerfield founded

    

1958
Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH

   
    
   

1959
Statue of Mary Dyer erected on Beacon Hill

    

1972
Harvard dedicates the so-called "Bradstreet Gate" between the Science Center and the Yard.

   
    
   

1987
Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig.

    

1990
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

   
    
   

1997
"National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program" established by the National Park Service.

1997
Irish Hunger Monument erected in Cambridge

   
    
   

1998
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens

    

2001
Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains

   
   

2001
Boston Massacre Memorial included on a new Irish Heritage Trail.

    

2002
Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed.

   
    
   

2003
Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone

    

2004
Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704

   

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