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词条 Timeline of Huntsville, Alabama
释义

  1. Prior to 20th century

  2. 20th century

  3. 21st century

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. Bibliography

  7. External links

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

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Prior to 20th century

{{History of Alabama}}
  • 1809 - Town of Twickenham incorporated in U.S. Mississippi Territory.[1]
  • 1811 - Twickenham renamed "Huntsville".[1]
  • 1812 - Green Academy established.[1]
  • 1817
    • Town becomes part of U.S. Alabama Territory.
    • Huntsville Republican newspaper in publication.[4]
  • 1818 - Huntsville social library active.[2]
  • 1819
    • Alabama Territory constitutional convention held in Huntsville.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
    • Town becomes part of new U.S. state of Alabama.
    • Newly formed Alabama Legislature convenes in Huntsville.[1]
  • 1820 - Alabama state capital relocated from Huntsville to Cahaba.[1]
  • 1822 - Maple Hill Cemetery in use (approximate date).
  • 1825 - Southern Advocate and Huntsville Advertiser newspaper in publication.[3]
  • 1840 - Population: 2,496.
  • 1855 - Memphis and Charleston Railroad begins operating.
  • 1860 - Huntsville Depot built.
  • 1862 - Huntsville occupied by Union forces during the American Civil War.{{sfn|Brown|1998}}
  • 1870 - Population: 4,907.
  • 1888 - Old Federal Square U.S. Post Office and Courts built on corner of Randolph St and Green St
  • 1888 - Monte Sano Railroad Workers' House built.
  • 1896 - Oakwood College founded.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1898 - B’nai Israel Synagogue built.[4]
  • 1900 - Population: 8,068.

20th century

  • 1910 - Huntsville Daily Times newspaper begins publication.[3]
  • 1912 - Lyric Theatre in business.[5]
  • 1916 - Carnegie Public Library building opens.[6]
  • 1932 - United States Courthouse and Post Office built.
  • 1935 - Monte Sano State Park established near city.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1937 - WBHP radio begins broadcasting.[7]
  • 1938 - Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge established in vicinity of Huntsville.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1941 - U.S. military Redstone Arsenal begins operating.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1943 - (August) Community Chest, later to becomeUnited Way of Madison County, founded by community leaders
  • 1947 - Keller (automobile) production begins.
  • 1950
    • Area of city: 4 square miles.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}
    • Population: 16,437.
  • 1951 - Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society formed.[8]
  • 1955 - Huntsville Symphony Orchestra formed.
  • 1957 - Lee High School built.
  • 1959 - WAFG-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[9]
  • 1960
    • U.S. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center established.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
    • Area of city: 51 square miles.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}
    • Population: 72,365.
  • 1962 - Arts Council formed.
  • 1964 - Huntsville News begins publication.[10]
  • 1968 - Joe W. Davis becomes mayor.
  • 1969 - Virgil I. Grissom High School established.
  • 1970 - Population: 139,282.
  • 1974 - Oakwood Adventist Academy established.
  • 1975
    • Von Braun Civic Center (convention centre) opens.
    • Madison County Nature Trail established.
  • 1976 - Huntsville Depot museum established.[17]
  • 1982
    • Panoply Arts Festival begins.
    • Alabama Constitution Village museum established.[11]
  • 1984 - Madison Square Mall in business.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}
  • 1986 - Interstate 565 highway constructed.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}
  • 1988 - Steve Hettinger becomes mayor.
  • 1989 - November 1989 tornado outbreak.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1990 - Population: 159,880.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}
  • 1993 - Big Spring Jam (music festival) begins.
  • 1995 - May 18: 1995 Anderson Hills tornado.
  • 1996
    • Loretta Spencer becomes mayor.
    • Huntsville News ceases publication.[10]
  • 1997 - United States Army Aviation and Missile Command headquartered in Huntsville.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}

21st century

  • 2006 - November 20: 2006 Huntsville bus crash.
  • 2008 - Tommy Battle becomes mayor.
  • 2010
    • February 12: 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting.
    • Population: 180,105.[12]
  • 2014
    • Area of city: 210 square miles.{{sfn|City of Huntsville|2016|ps= City and Context }}
    • Twickenham Square shopping/residential complex built.[13]

See also

  • Huntsville, Alabama history
  • List of mayors of Huntsville, Alabama
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Huntsville, Alabama
  • Timelines of other cities in Alabama: Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2498 |title=Huntsville |work=Encyclopedia of Alabama |author= Greg Schmidt |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation |accessdate= March 3, 2017 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~davpro/databases/index.html |title=American Libraries before 1876 |author= Davies Project |publisher=Princeton University |accessdate= March 3, 2017 }}
3. ^{{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Alabama&city=Huntsville&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington DC |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate= March 3, 2017 }}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.isjl.org/alabama-encyclopedia.html |title= Huntsville, Alabama |work= Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities |publisher= Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life |location=Jackson, Mississippi |accessdate=March 3, 2017 }}
5. ^{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/alabama/huntsville?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Huntsville, AL |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |accessdate= March 3, 2017 }}
6. ^{{cite book |title=American Library Annual, 1917-1918 |year=1918 |location=New York |publisher=R.R. Bowker Co. |chapterurl=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013751220?urlappend=%3Bseq=275 |chapter=Alabama }}
7. ^{{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/183/mode/1up |chapter= Alabama }}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hmchs.org/historicalmarkers.html |title= Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society |accessdate= March 3, 2017 }}
9. ^{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations: Alabama |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/782/mode/2up }}
10. ^{{citation |url=https://congress.gov/congressional-record/1996/03/06/senate-section/article/S1550-1 |title=Goodbye to the Huntsville News |date=March 6, 1996 |work=Congressional Record |location=Washington DC }}
11. ^{{cite book |title=Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada |year=2002 |edition=15th |isbn=0759100020 |author= American Association for State and Local History |chapter=Alabama: Huntsville |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LY0Q5Rv4O3YC |page=18-19 }}
12. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/0137000 |title= Huntsville city, Alabama |work=QuickFacts |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |accessdate=March 3, 2017 }}
13. ^{{citation |title=Discover Huntsville |year=2015 |publisher=Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County |url= http://www.huntsvillealabamausa.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107&Itemid=282 }}

Bibliography

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  • {{cite book

|title= Southern Business Directory
|editor=John P. Campbell
|location=Charleston, SC
|publisher=Press of Walker & James
|year=1854
|chapter=Alabama: Huntsville
|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IRDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA21
}}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = John P. Hunt |publication-place = Pittsburgh, Pa. |author = R.H. Long |title = Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States |publication-date = 1863
|chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/huntsgazetteerof00long#page/38/mode/2up |chapter= Huntsville
}}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = Mobile Register print. |publication-place = Mobile |title = Handbook of Alabama |author =Saffold Berney |publication-date = 1878
|chapterurl = https://archive.org/stream/handbookofalabam01bern#page/82/mode/2up
|chapter = Huntsville
}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Smith & De Land |publication-place = Birmingham, Ala |title = Northern Alabama |publication-date = 1888 |oclc = 4215188

|chapter= Huntsville
|chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/northernalabamah00birm#page/242/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive
}}
  • {{Citation

| title = Encyclopaedia Britannica
| publication-place = New York
| publication-date = 1910
| edition=11th
| oclc = 14782424
| chapter = Huntsville
| chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=XFobAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA955
| ref = {{harvid|Britannica|1910}}
}}
  • {{cite book |author=Edward Chambers Betts |title= Early History of Huntsville, Alabama, 1804-1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GVLFte9PRv0C |year= 1916

}}
  • {{cite book|author=Thomas McAdory Owen |title=History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography |year=1921|publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company |volume=1

|chapter= Huntsville
|chapterurl= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015078279430?urlappend=%3Bseq=742
|pages=
| ref = {{harvid|Owen|1921}}
}}
  • {{Citation |publication-place = New York |publisher=Hastings House |title = Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South |series=American Guide Series |author = Federal Writers' Project |publication-date = 1941

|chapter= Huntsville
|chapterurl= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4469723?urlappend=%3Bseq=274 |via= HathiTrust
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}}
  • {{citation |title=Huntsville Historical Review |publisher=Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society |issn=1048-3152

}} 1971-

  • {{cite book |author=Sarah Huff Fisk |title= Civilization Comes to Big Spring: Huntsville, Alabama 1823 |publisher= Pinhook |year= 1997

}}
  • {{cite book

|author=Lynda Brown
|title=Alabama History: an Annotated Bibliography |year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-28223-2
|chapter=Chronology
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FkBQbq2Rv4AC |display-authors=etal
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}}
  • {{cite journal |author= Trimble |title=Early Aviation in Rocket City, U.S.A. |journal= Alabama Review |issn=0002-4341 |volume=57 |year=2004

}}
  • {{cite journal |author= Christine Dee |title=Trying James Hickman: The Politics of Loyalty in a Civil War Community |journal= Alabama Review |volume=58 |year=2005

}}
  • {{citation |editor= Ranee G. Pruitt |title= Eden of the South: A Chronology of Huntsville, Alabama 1805-2005 |publisher= Huntsville-Madison County Public Library |year= 2005 }}
  • {{cite book

|author=Paul T. Hellmann
|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States
|year= 2006
|publisher=Taylor & Francis
|isbn=1-135-94859-3
|chapter= Alabama: Huntsville
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC
|page= 13
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}}
  • {{cite journal |author= Whitney Adrienne Snow |title= Cotton Mill City: The Huntsville Textile Industry, 1880-1989 |journal= Alabama Review |volume=63 |year=2010

}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://huntsvillehistorycollection.org |title= Huntsville History Collection |editor=Deane K. Dayton }} 2011- (Local wiki)
  • {{cite book |series=Images of America |title= Huntsville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st6d6k425j0C |location= Charleston, S.C. |publisher= Arcadia |ISBN= 978-0-73859-891-8 |year= 2013

}}
  • {{citation

|title=The Big Picture |url=http://bigpicturehuntsville.com/plan/ |year=2016 |publisher=City of Huntsville
| ref = {{harvid|City of Huntsville|2016}}

}}. (City plan)

{{refend}}

External links

{{Commons category|Huntsville, Alabama}}
  • {{cite web

|url=http://guides.hmcpl.org/content.php?pid=667009 |title=Genealogy, History and Archives |work=Research Guides |publisher=Huntsville-Madison County Public Library }}
  • Items related to Huntsville, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • {{cite web

|publisher=Birmingham Public Library |url=http://www.bplonline.org/virtual/subjects/Default.aspx?s_page=117&s_section=236 |title=Selected Resources for Alabama Counties: Madison County }}
  • {{cite web

|title=Education Resources |editor=Kelly Hamlin |url=http://huntsvillehistorycollection.org/hh/index.php?title=History_Outreach_Program_for_Educators_(HOPE) |work=Huntsville History Collection }} (Annotated list of links)
  • {{cite web

|url= http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/collection/photo!records!quarterly!register!adah!voices!wpa!dictionary!splc/searchterm/Huntsville%20(Ala.)/field/subjec/mode/exact/conn/and/rmcoll/splc/order/nosort/ad/asc |title=Digital Collections |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives and History |location=Montgomery }} (Materials related to Huntsville, Ala.)
  • {{cite web

|url=http://www.alabamamosaic.org/vufind/Search/Home?lookfor=huntsville&type=all&submit=Find |work=Alabama Mosaic |publisher= Alabama Commission on Higher Education, Network of Alabama Academic Libraries |title= (Huntsville) }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.archives.alabama.gov/hrb/search.cfm |title=(City: Huntsville) |work= Alabama Repositories Directory |publisher=Alabama Department of Archives & History |quote=A listing of public entities and private organizations holding historical records, artifacts, and other cultural heritage materials }}
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