HISTORY - TIMELINE
1609-1779 ~ 1781-1807 ~ 1808-1827 ~ 1828- 1840 ~ 1841-1850 ~ 1851-1865 ~ 1865-1866
BACK TO SOMERS MUSEUM
Somers residents Charle and James Wright join their menagerie with their Somers neighbor J. Purdy Brown's circus outside of Charleston, S.C.
[Congress passes major tariff act, called by southern critics "Tariff of Abominations;" Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary of the English language]
Andrew Jackson - President of United States.
Methodist Episcopal brick church built in Somers hamlet.
Somers showman Benjamin Brown tours Caribbean with menagerie and circus.
[Mormon Church founded; "Tom Thumb" steam locomotive starts operations; Nation's first railroad - Baltimore and Ohio - is chartered;
Robert L. Stevens invents T-rails for railways.]
New York and Harlem Railroad chartered.
[Cyprus McCormick demonstrates reaper; "America" written and played for first time; Tripoli monument (1) (2) moved to West terrace of capitol; chloroform synthesized]
Another cholera epidemic. (1) (2) (3) (4)
The elephant Columbus is sold to J.P. and William Howe & Co., NY menagerie.
New York City selects Croton River as source of water.
[South Carolina nullifies tariff law (1) (2); Pres. Jackson proclaims "No state can secede from the Union;" Black Hawk Indian war; World's first streetcar starts operating on lower 4th Ave. in New York City; First Asiatic cholera epidemic starts in New York City]
Congregational Church reorganized as Presbyterian Church
Luther Kinnicutt, Revoluationary War spy, dies.
[Congress passes compromise Tariff Act (1) (2); Photography invented (1) (2)]
Somers' popular showman J. Purdy Brown dies suddenly in Mobile, Al on June 6.
Presbyterian Church purchases property opposite church for new parsonage.
[Currier and Ives (1) (2) - "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" - start operations; John Deere (1) produces America's first steel plow]
Nine Somers menageries combine to form Zoological Institute at Elephant Hotel on January 14.
Episcopalians break ties with Presbyterians and form St. Luke's.
Benjamin Brown goes to Africa for giraffes.
Warren Street laid out.
Enoch Crosby, Revolutionary War spy, dies.
[Protestant missionaries tell Easterners of Oregon's wonders; Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph]
Phineas T. Barnum of Bethel, CT joins Aaron Turner Circus as ticket seller, secretary and treasurer at $40/month plus fifth of profits.
Hachaliah Bailey sells Elephant Hotel to Somers showman Gerard Crane and moves to Virginia.
Union Society sells parsonage property.
[Alamo captured by Mexicans; McGuffey (1) publishes First and Second Reader(1)(2) ]
Martin Van Buren - President of United States.
Tomahawk Chapel built by Methodist Protestant Church
Financial panic causes dissolution of Zoological Institute.
Gerard Crane sells Elephant Hotel to Horace Bailey.
(National financial depression; Mt. Holyoke, first women's college, opens; P.T. Barnum shows Joyce Heth, 46 pound, 161 year old woman, convinces public she brought George Washington into the world]
Old and New schools of Presbyterians formed. Old school retains Union Meeting House and parsonage; Nw School meets in nearby Methodist Church. Later, Old School loses Union Meeting House and forms congregation in Croton Falls.
Hachaliah Bailey, with son, Lewis, purchases old Virginia mansion Maury.
[Underground Railroad established (1) (2) (3) (4)]
Farmes and Drovers Bank of Somers organized.
Isaac Bedell is able to operate mills in South Somers because of inheritance and purchases; areas becomes known as Bedell's Mills
[Charles Goodyear patents rubber vulcanizing; First baseball diamond laid out in Cooperstown, NY]
Somers' population 2,100.
Benjamin Brown goes to Londong to work with lion tamer Van Amburgh.
Section of Pines Bridge Rd. between Rte. 35 & Mekeel St. laid out.
Move to have 4 Northern Westchester towns annexed to Putnam County fails.
[Missouri population triples in 10 years; railroad (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) development begins; first moon photograph (1)]
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