Timeline of Montgomery, Alabama
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
19th century
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- 1819 - Montgomery incorporated.[1]
- 1821
- Montgomery Republican newspaper begins publication.[2]
- Franklin Society founded.[3]
- 1824 - Presbyterian church[4] and Montgomery Light Infantry[3] established.
- 1828 - Alabama State Library headquartered in Montgomery.[5]
- 1833 - Montgomery Advertiser newspaper in publication.[citation needed]
- 1847 - Sons of Temperance formed.[3]
- 1850 - Lehman Brothers in business.
- 1851 - Alabama State Capitol built.
- 1861
- February: Montgomery becomes capital of the Confederate States of America; First White House of the Confederacy established; Jefferson Davis sworn in as president.[6]
- May 21: Confederate capitol relocated from Montgomery to Richmond, Virginia.[7]
- 1864 - Atlanta-Montgomery railroad destroyed by Union forces.[7]
- 1867 - Swayne School built.[4]
- 1870 - Population: 10,588.[4]
- 1873 - Chamber of Commerce established.[citation needed]
- 1877 - Second Colored Baptist Church established.
- 1887 - Normal School for Colored Students opens.
- 1889 - Hale Infirmary founded.[5]
- 1898 - Confederate monument dedicated.[4]
- 1899 - Montgomery Library Association organized.[8]
- 1900 - Population: 30,346.[4]
20th century
- 1901 - Alabama Department of Archives and History headquartered in Montgomery.[8]
- 1902 - St. Margaret's Hospital founded.[5]
- 1907 - Bell Building constructed.
- 1910
- Wright Flying School begins operating.[9]
- William Gunter becomes mayor.[4]
- 1913 - Rotary Club of Montgomery organized.[10]
- 1914 - Empire Theater built.[11]
- 1916 - Commission form of government adopted.[4]
- 1926
- Junior League of Montgomery organized.[12]
- Scottish Rite Temple constructed.[13]
- 1927 - Jefferson Davis Hotel built.
- 1929
- Municipal airport begins operating.[14]
- State Teachers College active.
- 1930
- WSFA radio begins broadcasting.[15]
- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts established.
- 1938
- Coca-Cola bottling facility in operation.[14]
- WCOV radio begins broadcasting.[15]
- 1940
- Population: 78,084.
- Veterans hospital begins operating.[14]
- 1941 - Mayor William Gunter dies.[1]
- 1942 - Montgomery Bible College founded.[13]
- 1946 — A devastating and deadly tornado struck the western portion of the city. The tornado killed 26 people, injured 293 others, and caused a city-wide blackout which lasted for hours.[16][17]
- 1947 - Alabama Historical Association headquartered in city.[citation needed]
- 1948 - U.S. Maxwell Air Force Base established.[13]
- 1949 - City of Montgomery Library established.
- 1950 - Population: 106,525.
- 1953 - WCOV-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[18]
- 1954 - WSFA television begins broadcasting.[18]
- 1955 - December 1: Rosa Parks arrested; Montgomery bus boycott begins.
- 1956 - December 20: Racial segregation lawsuit Browder v. Gayle verdict takes effect; bus boycott ends.[19]
- 1960 - Population: 134,393.
- 1961 - May 20: Freedom Riders attacked.[6]
- 1964 - WKAB-TV begins broadcasting.
- 1965
- March 7–25: Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.[6]
- March 25: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "How Long, Not Long" speech.[6]
- 1967
- February 7: Dale's Penthouse fire.[13]
- Auburn University at Montgomery established.
- Alabama Historical Commission headquartered in city.[citation needed]
- 1968 - Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery established.[20]
- 1971 - Southern Poverty Law Center founded.
- 1972 - Montgomery Zoo opens.[21]
- 1977
- Wynnsong 10 cinema in business.[11]
- Emory Folmar becomes mayor.
- 1978 - Montgomery Genealogical Society established.[22]
- 1980 - Population: 177,857.
- 1984 - Masjid Qasim Bilal El-Amin established.[23][24]
- 1985 - Alabama Shakespeare Festival active.
- 1986 - Montgomery Area Food Bank established.[25][26]
- 1989 - Civil Rights Memorial dedicated.
- 1990 - Population: 187,106.
- 1992 - Montgomery County Historical Society organized.[27]
- 1995 - Equal Justice Initiative and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum[20] established.
- 1997 - City website online (approximate date).[28][chronology citation needed]
- 1999 - Bobby Bright becomes mayor.
- 2000 - Population: 201,568.
21st century
- 2005 - Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama factory begins operating.
- 2009
- Todd Strange becomes mayor.
- Sister city agreement established with Pietrasanta, Italy.[29]
- 2010 - Population: 205,764.[30]
- 2011 - Martha Roby becomes U.S. representative for Alabama's 2nd congressional district and Terri Sewell becomes U.S. representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district.[31]
- 2018 - April: National Memorial for Peace and Justice unveiled.
- 2019 - Steven Reed becomes mayor.
- 2020 - Population: 200,603.[32]
- Montgomery records highest homicides total.[33]
- 2021 - Montgomery records highest homicide rate in history. At 77 homicides.
- 2023 - On August 6, 2023, a violent brawl largely along racial lines occurs when three White men attack a Black co-captain of the Harriott II riverboat on a dock in Riverfront Park.[34]
See also
- History of Montgomery, Alabama
- List of mayors of Montgomery, Alabama
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Alabama
- Timelines of other cities in Alabama: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Tuscaloosa
References
- ^ a b Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ a b c Benton 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g Owen 1921.
- ^ a b c Thomas M. Owen, ed. (1907). Alabama Official and Statistical Register. State of Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- ^ a b c d "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved November 1, 2014
- ^ a b Brown 1998.
- ^ a b American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
- ^ Julie Hedgepeth Williams (2010). Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910. NewSouth Books. ISBN 978-1-60306-093-6.
- ^ Who's who in the Montgomery Alabama Rotary Club, 1916
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Montgomery, AL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ "History". Junior League of Montgomery. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ a b c d Hellmann 2006.
- ^ a b c Newton 2010.
- ^ a b Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Alabama", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
- ^ Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993). Significant tornadoes, 1680–1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, Vermont: Environmental Films. pp. 922–925. ISBN 1-879362-03-1.
- ^ F. C. Pate (United States Weather Bureau) (October 1946). "The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 27 (8). American Meteorological Society: 462–464. JSTOR 26257954. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ a b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Alabama", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
- ^ Robert L. Harris Jr.; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (2013). "Chronology". Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51087-5.
- ^ a b American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Alabama: Montgomery". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0759100020.
- ^ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ^ "Montgomery Genealogical Society". Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ "Masjid Qasim Bilal El-Amin". Montgomery, AL. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ Pluralism Project. "Birmingham, Alabama". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ "Montgomery Area Food Bank". Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ "Alabama Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
- ^ "Montgomery County Historical Society". Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^ "Welcome To Montgomery, Alabama". Archived from the original on 1997-04-22 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Montgomery now has a sister city", WSFA, April 29, 2009
- ^ "Montgomery city, Alabama". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
- ^ "Alabama". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2011. ISBN 9780160886539.
- ^ "Montgomery city, Alabama : Population". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
- ^ "'68 was too high': Montgomery police chief addresses 2020 homicide rate". WSFA 12 News. Ashley Bowerman. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
- ^ Bella, Timothy (2023-08-09). "Men charged in Montgomery brawl had been 'trouble' for riverboat, captain says". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Montgomery City Directory. Advertiser Book and Job Printing Office. 1859.
- Code of the City of Montgomery, Montgomery, Ala: Gaines & Smith, printers, 1861, OCLC 5390201, OL 6531215M
- R.H. Long (1863), "Montgomery", Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States, Pittsburgh, Pa.: John P. Hunt
- Directory of the City of Montgomery. Perry & Smith. 1866 – via Internet Archive.
- Jesse D. Beale; S. H. Phelan (1878). City Directory and History of Montgomery, Alabama. T.C. Bingham – via HathiTrust. (includes "A Brief History of Montgomery" by M.P. Blue)
- Berney, Saffold (1878), "Montgomery", Handbook of Alabama, Mobile: Mobile Register print.
- M. P. Blue, Churches of the City of Montgomery, Montgomery, 1878.
- McCall (1885). Sketch, historical and statistical, of the city of Montgomery.
- "Montgomery", Northern Alabama, Birmingham, Ala: Smith & De Land, 1888, OCLC 4215188
- "Montgomery", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899
- Published in the 20th century
- Montgomery (Ala (1902). Code of Ordinances of the City Council of Montgomery.
- "Montgomery", The United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- Tintgail Club (1920), Official guide to the city of Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery: Paragon Press, OL 24158387M
- Thomas McAdory Owen (1921). "Montgomery". History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. 2. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 1037–1040. hdl:2027/mdp.39015078279422.
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Montgomery", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, hdl:2027/uc1.b4469723
- Code of the city of Montgomery, Alabama, 1952 – via Hathi Trust.
- Clanton W. Williams. The Early History of Montgomery and Incidentally of the State of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1976
- Brown, Lynda; et al. (1998). "Chronology". Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28223-2.
- Published in the 21st century
- J. Mills Thornton (2002). "Montgomery". Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. University of Alabama Press. pp. 20–140. ISBN 978-0-8173-1170-4.
- Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Alabama: Montgomery". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. p. 16+. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
- Wesley Phillips Newton (2010). Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5632-3.
- Jeffrey C. Benton (2013). Respectable and Disreputable: Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery. NewSouth Books. ISBN 978-1-60306-229-9.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Montgomery, Alabama.
- Mary Ann Oglesby Neeley. "Montgomery". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation.
- Items related to Montgomery, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- "(City: Montgomery)". Alabama Repositories Directory. Alabama Department of Archives & History.
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