HISTORY - TIMELINE
1609-1779 ~ 1781-1807 ~ 1808-1827 ~ 1828- 1840 ~ 1841-1850 ~ 1851-1865 ~ 1865-1866
BACK TO SOMERS MUSEUM
William Henry Harrison - John Tyler - President of United States.
Town Board begins campaign for extensive improvements for Somers roads.
Harlem Railroad decides to bypass Somers.
City of New York begins developing reservoirs in area.
Pines Bridge destroyed by flood.
[William Henry Harrison catches pneumonia during his inauguration, dies April 4; John Tyler sworn in as President April 6; Horace Greeley start New York Tribune; First wagon train to Oregon from Kansas; Edgar Allan Poe's (1) (2) "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" published; world's first detective story]
Croton Dam completed in Yorktown. (1) (2) (3) (4)
St. Luke's church consecrated.
Lewis B. Lent is named business agent of circus firm of June, Angevine and Crane, Inc.
[Webster-Ashburton treaty (1) (2) (3) fixes northeast U.S. boundary; NY Philharmonic Society founded; P.T. Barnum opens his American Museum; Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of Secretary of War, and two others hanged for mutiny on board U.S.S. Somers; Sulphuric ether first used to produce anaesthesia]
Ruth Tompkins, founder of Somers Library, is born.
[First electric telegraph opens between Washington and Baltimore; First private hotel bath and first bridal suite introduced in New York City]
James Knox Polk - President of United States
Hachaliah Bailey dies at age 70 from kick of vicious horse while on visit to
Somers Sept. 2.
Roman Catholic parish is organized.
Post road from Elephant Hotel to Peekskill improved.
[U.S. Naval Academy established at Annapolis, MD; First baseball club, the Knickerbockers (1) (2), organized by NYC fireman Alexander Cartwright; Andrew Jackson dies at 78]
Portion of Somers, including Pines Bridge, annexed to New Castle.
Application for road from Lovell Street to Upper Warren Street denied.
Presbyterian Church at Croton Falls incorporated.
[U.S. declares war on Mexico; Elias Howe (1) (2) patents sewing machine; U.S./British Northwest Territory boundary set at 44th parallel by Oregon Treaty (1) (2) ; Donner Pass disaster]
Harlem Railroad reaches Croton Falls.
Delavan, Wisconsin Winter Circus starts operations through purchase of 1,000 acres of land by Seth B. Howes and Edmund Mabie of Putnam County.
Somers' decline begins.
Presbyterian Church at Croton Falls builds church on west side of Croton River, between river and present-day Route 100.
[Sale of adhesive postage stamps approved; Mormon settle in Utah (1) (2); American Medical Society organized; Smithsonian Institution formally dedicated]
Road from Somers hamlet to Purdy's Station laid out.
[Mexican War ends, gives U.S. vast new territory in West; Washington Monument (1) (2) cornerstone laid July 4; Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill (1) (2) (3) near Sacramento, CA; "Communist Manifesto" published by Marx and Engels]
Zachary Taylor - President of United States
Great Showmen's Ball held in Elephant Hotel, Feb. 22.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is erected off Rte. 22 south of what is now Croton Falls.
Croton Turnpike becomes a free road.
Gerard Crane builds Stone House; Thaddeus Crane dies.
[California Gold Rush; First woman medical doctor - Elisabeth Blackwell (1) (2) ; Safety pin patented]
Millard Fillmore - President of United States.
Brick Methodist Church disbanded; proceeds of property sale got to Methodist Episcopal Society at Purdy's Station.
Most drovers using steamboats instead of sloops on Hudson.
New iron bridge erected at Goldings Bridge.
[President Taylor dies of typhus July 9; Millard Filmore sworn in as President July 10; Compromise of 1850 temporarily eases sectional discord over slavery extension; Levi Strauss introduces canvas pants; Isaac Singer improves sewing machine; Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes "Scarlet Letter; (1)" U.S. and Great Britain agree to projected canal across North America; Flogging outlawed in Navy and Merchant Marine because of U.S.S. Somers incident; Barnum introduces Jenny Lind]
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