History of Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

• 1656 - Fall River is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1803 - Fall River is incorporated
  
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• In 1804 the town name was changed to Troy, named for Troy, New York.
  
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  Old Globe or Durfee Mill
  First Cotton Mill Built in Fall River, 1811
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•  1834 - Fall River vs. Tiverton
  The inhabitants of Fall River, Mass. and Tiverton, R. I. it appears are in a bit of a quarrel. A portion of the line between Massachusetts and Rhode I...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• In 1834 the name changed back to Fall River.
  
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•  1835 - Fall River vs. Tiverton
  A new survey of the line between the town of Fall River, in this State, and Tiverton, in Rhode Island, places the boundary line much further south tha...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - FALL RIVER. [Pop. 6,738. Inc. 1803.]
  Fall River, once a part of Freetown, was called Troy, till 1834, when it was named after the outlet of a large pond, on which its numerous manufac...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Fall River is incorporated as a city
  
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• 1854 - Fall River
  Fall River, an important manufacturing post-town and port of entry of Bristol county, Massachusetts, at the entrance of Taunton river into Mount Hope ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  FALL RIVER, a thriving township and village in Massachusetts, U.S., 51 m. S of Boston, situated on both sides of the Fall, at its entrance into Mount-...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1869 - A shrewd Yankee - a Mr. Packard, of Fall River, Mass. - has shown what can be done in the way of wine and silk culture.
  Some years ago he bought a ranche of two hundred acres in Santa Barbara, at a dollar an acre. He has now 50,000 vines, producing 20,000 gallons of win...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1871 - Sticky Situation
  During the services of a prayer meeting at Fall River, Massachusetts, a messenger came to summon an M. D., who was present, to attend a little boy who...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1877 - LARGE FIRE AT FALL RIVER. BORDEN MILL DESTROYED -- 36,000 SPINDLES STOPPED - THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE - THE LOSS AND INSURANCE
  Fall River, Mass., Nov. 17. - Early this morning Borden City Mill No. 1 was totally destroyed by fire. It was a brick building, erected in 1872, conta...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• June 26, 1879 - Mill Strike
  Strike of the mill operatives at Fall River, Mass., for an increase of wages corresponding to the last reduction: such increase claimed to have been p...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Hargraves Mfg. Co., Soap Makers, Fall River, Mass.
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  Buy your boots & shoes of Preble Bros., 77 Pleasant and 23 So. Main St., Fall River, Mass.
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•  1881 - 4 Drowned
  At Fall River, Mass., yesterday, Wm. Law, a spinner, age 39, and Samuel Varley, a weaver, aged 30, were dragging their sons, John H. Law,a ged 5, and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1881 - Six Rum-Sellers to One Preacher
  The Fall River, (Mass.) News, which is giving the temperance movement considerable aid has figured it out that the beer in this country last year cost...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1886 - RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A WASHED-OUT CULVERT CAUSES DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
  Fall River, Mass., Feb. 13. - News has reached this city that a bad accident occurred on the Old Colony railway, at Asoonet Station. The accident was ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1890 - CAPSIZED IN THE BAY. EIGHT OUT OF TEN BOATERS DROWNED AT FALL RIVER, MASS.
  Fall River, Mass., May 26. - A small boat containing a party of pleasure seekers was capsized in the rough water in the bay yesterday and eight person...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Fall River Massachusetts, 1890
  FALL RIVER, a beautiful manufacturing city and port of entry in the southwest side of Bristol County, lies on the easterly shore of Mount Hope Bay and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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•  1892 - August 4 - Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
  The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
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•  1892 - Loss in the Fall River Fire.
  FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 18 - In the fire on the Staples Coal Company's wharf property, Davel Street, last night a large Chase elevator costing over $1...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1892 - THE BORDEN MURDER. Preparations for the Preliminary Hearing of Lizzie Borden.
  Fall River, Mass., Aug. 22. - Miss Lizzie A. Borden arrived here from the Taunton jail this morning and will be given a preliminary hearing on a charg...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1894 - Wages Reduced
  The effect of two years of democratic ascendency has materialized in the great manufacturing city of Fall River, Mass. The Cotton Manufacturers' Assoc...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Fall River
  Fall River, a city and port of entry of Bristol Co., Mass, is pleasantly situated on the E. bank of the Taunton River, at its mouth, and on Mount Hope...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1896 - Fall River, Mass., Mills.
  Fall River, Mass., October 13. - The American linen mills started yesterday afternoon after a week's shut down on account of a breakdown. The Robeson ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1896 - Weavers Strike
  FALL RIVER, Mass., May 18 - All the weavers of the Hargraves & Parker mills struck to-day, in accordance with a vote passed last week. The cause of tr...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  At Sandy Beach
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  Hotel Mellen, Fall RIver, Mass.
  
  Fall River's leading hotel. Air conditioned. Grille, cocktail lounge, delicious food, choice liquor. E. J. Pontiff, Mgr
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  First Congregational Church, Fall River, Mass.
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  City Hall, Fall River, Mass.
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  New Union Hospital, Fall River, Mass.
  
  "The Union Hospital was erected on the corner of Prospect and Hanover Streets in 1908 and merged two previously established institutions: the Fall River Hospital which occupied the Valentine estate on... Read MORE...
  
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  The Water Tower, Fall River, Mass.
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  St. Patrick's Church and Rectory, Fall River, Mass.
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  Fall River, Mass. Railway Station.
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  North Main Street looking N., Fall River, Mass.
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•  1904 - ENDANGERS THOUSANDS - Mill Proprietors at Fall River, Mass., May Decide to Close their Mills - 40,000 Employees
  Fall River, Mass., May 3. - Reports from many of the corporations which have been shutting down their cotton mills two days each week indicate that th...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1904 - Wages to Be Reduced
  Fall River, Mass., July 14. - It was practically settled today that a general reduction of wages in the cotton mills of fall River would be ordered to...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Bedford Street
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  Highland Avenue, looking North
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  High School, 1905
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  View South-West from High School, 1906
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  Old Folks' Home, 1906
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  St. Mary's Cathedral
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  Y.M.C.A. Building, 1907
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•  1908 - KILLS HERSELF AND TWO SMALL CHILDREN
  Mother Turns on Gas in Kitchen of Home While Husband is Asleep Up Stairs.
  
  FALL RIVER, Mass., March 22. - Mrs. Joseph Terrien, twenty-five years of ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Chace Mills
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  Court House, 1908
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  Quequechan Club
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  The most up-to-date Bottling Plant in the Country
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  Armory, M.V.M.
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  Barnard Mills
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  Border City School
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  Boys' Club
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  The Highland Hospital
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  Marshall's Hat Factory
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  North Main Street, looking South
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  Pleasant Street, at Flint Village
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  Slade's Ferry Bridge
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  South Park
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  St. Mathews Church
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  1811-1911 Cotton Centennial Carnival
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•  1913 - MANY IN CLOTH STEAL
  Fall River (Mass.) Mills Systematically Robbed by Operatives.
  Fall River, Mass., Nov. 28. - Investigation into alleged wholesale thefts from the Amer...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1916 - $2,000,000 FIRE AT FALL RIVER
  Apartment Hotel and Retail Stores Razed in Massachusetts Town
  
  FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 16. - Estimates by owners of property and proprietors of stor...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1916
  Fall River, a city and port of entry of Bristol co., Mass., is pleasantly situated on the E. bank of the Taunton River, at its mouth, and on Mount Hop...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1918 - Fall River and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919
  "In a sense, Fall River was caught between the anvil and the stone in the fall of 1918. Boston – epicenter of the influenza epidemic – was just 50 mil...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  North Main Street
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  Printing Works
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•  1926 - Baptist Temple Burned At Fall River Today
  Fall River, Mass., April 14, - (AP) - The Baptist Temple, situated in the center of the city, was destroyed by fire early today with loss estimated at...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1928 - FALL RIVER BUSINESS AREA BURNS. SIX BLOCKS DESTROYED WITH LOSS EXCEEDING $15 MILLION. ENTIRE CITY MENACED. FIREMEN FROM AS FAR AS PROVIDENCE, BOSTON AID FIGHT.
  Fall River, Mass., Feb. 3. (AP) - The business district of this city, one of New England's greatest mill centers, lays in ruins today. Only a few gaun...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Post Office
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  The Bar of the Falcon Room, Hotel Mellen
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  South Main Street, Looking South
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•  1944 - HURRICANE HITS NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND COASTS. HIGH WINDS LASH JERSEY, LONG ISLAND.
  ...Nearly all of Fall River, in southeastern Massachusetts, was in darkness and the Eastern Mass. Railway ordered its busses off the streets. Numerous...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  St. Anne's School
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