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"Satucket Path" become a well-worn trail used by native
americans |
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Governor Bradford delineates the boundaries between Plymouth
Colony and Masschusetts Bay Colony are designated and labled as the
"Patent Line" or "Old Colony Line". The line is the border of
present day Abington and Weymouth and the separation point of
Plymouth County and Norfolk County |
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Myles Standish, Constant Southworth, and Samuel Nash, purchased
a small portion of the 196 square-mile “Bridgewater Purchase”. |
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Most of the Abington's 16-20 land grants given out by the
General Coury of Plymouth County |
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Andrew Ford of Weymouth becomes the first settler of the
are |
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King Phillip's War, in which it is said Andrew Ford's first
house is destroye |
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The first sawmill of the area appears on the Schumatuscacant
River in what is present day East Whitman. The community that
developed around this mill was known as "Little Comfort" |
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Settlers of the area first apply to be designated as a tow |
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First meetinghouse constructed |
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First minister hired, Rev. Samuel Browne of Newbury. The hiring
was a critical step toward's township as the Court's required a
support of a minister before granting an area independance. Rev.
Browne preached his first sermon December 8, 1711 |
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On June 10th Abington is officially incorporated as a town
through a decree by the Roayl Governor Jospeh Dudley. |
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Abington looses a portion of its eastern territory to the newly
incoprated Hanover. |
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First schoolhouse contructed in Abington and was located in
Abington Center. The one-room schoolhouse served the entire town of
Abington until 1843 |
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Southeastern corber of territory lost to Hanson
Abingtonians particpate in the French & Indian Wars |
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Joseph Greenleaf publishes he “Noble Resolves” or “Abington
Resolves” in the Boston Gazette denouncing the Townsend Acts |
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Abingtonians particpate in the American Revolution. One report
indicates that "almost every man in town capable of bearing arms was
in the service, for a longer or shorter time"
ca 1777 Small Pox or "Camp Fever" brought back by soliders
ravages the town until checked by innoculation |
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Thomas Hunt, who is credited with bringing shoe manufacturing to
Abington, moved to the town from Quincy |
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The U.S.S. Constitution is constructed utlizing wood from as far
north as Maine and as farth south as Georgia. Abington's lumber
industry is called upon for wale planks of white oak seven inches
thick and are furnished by Obadiah Hersey of South Abington |
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The church and the town officially separte as a second
congregation is formed in South Abington forcing town meetings to be
conducted outside of church meetings
The New Bedford Turnpike (appoximately todays Route 18) is opened
for service through Abington |
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A Third Congregational society and subsequnet church forms in
Abington, this time in East Abington |
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David Gloyd establishes the first shoe factory in Abington |
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Aaron Hobart, grandson of Colonel Aaron Hobart, publishes "An
Historical Sketch of Abington" which is a source of much of
Abington's recorded history |
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The Old Colony Railroad opened for service from Boston to
Plymouth
First Alms House established
First Annual Town report printed |
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First all-day outdoor Abolitionist meeting is held on August
first in Abington's Island Grove Park |
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Abington first begins providing street names |
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Abington Savings Bank opens (and remains a major supporter and
industy provider until its merger with Sovereign Bank in 2004) |
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Abington's first newspaper, The Abington Standard, is
published |
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Abington Mutual Fire Insurance Company is incorporated |
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First jury list (or veniermen list) is published |
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South Abington, Company E, 4th Regiment Masschusetts Volunteers
are the first to respond to Boston Common at nation's call to arms.
Througout the Civil War Abington residents participate in military
units fighting for the Union
Veterans and their familiers begin to receive state aid
In a statewide survey, Abington is found to be have the highest
valuation greatly exceeding that of any town in the county |
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Benjamin Hobart, a prominemnt tack manufacture, publishes his
"History of Abington" which had previously appeared as a series in
the Abington Standard |
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Abington builds its first "lock-up" or jail |
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Abington Fire Department established
Hanover Branch railroad opened for service between North
Abington, East Abington, West Hanover and Hanover's Four Corners
(operating until 1948) |
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Health Department established |
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Abington's Town By-laws are dran up and ratified
The Dunbar Street School located at 66 Dunbar Street is built in
what now is infamously referred to as the "Mansard Abomination. The
construction caused such a rift in the town that it was the final
catalyst leading to the town being split. By popular local support
portions of the town would seceed from Abington and incorporate
themselves as independant municipalities (Rockland and Whitman). The
school remained in service until 1938, later becoming a a
frozen-food locker and eventually going into disuse. In the late
1960's and early 1970's it is torn down and an apartment complex is
erected on the site destroying one of the most pivotal icon's of
Abington's history |
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The East Ward of Abington is cut off and incorporated as the
Town of Rockland |
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The South Ward of Abington is cut off and incoporated as the
Town of South Abington (which through popular referendum will change
its name in 1886 to Whitman)
The Arnold Shoe Factory building is begun by Moses N. Arnold. The
building still exists today at 200 Wales St. and is occupied by a
few private companies. |
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Abington Public Library established |
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Abington Park Department established |
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Telephone service is first available |
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Abington Water Department established |
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The town purchases a portion a lot inside Mount Vernon cemetary
for graves for the "Forefathers Stones" |
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The Crossett Shoe Factory is built by Lewis A. Crossett. A large
portion of the building still exists and is today the home of New
England Art Publishers |
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Abstracts of Abington Town Meetings are first published in
Annual Reports |
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Abington's first official High School (remaning until 1902)
opens on Washington Street in a building constructed in 1853 that
today is the American Legion Building |
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Electric lighting is first available in Abington |
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The Abington-Rockland Railway Company streetcar service is
established in Abington, operating until 1935
"The North Abington Riot" takes place as a confrontation between
the "New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Corporation"
(usually shortened to “the New Haven”) and the town over a dispute
of the right-of-way of streetcars crossing the railroad tracks in
North Abington. The incident took place outside the North Abington
Depot (present day location of the Abington Depot restaurant). A
stone was erected August 15, 1993 as a memorial. |
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Abington Police Department established |
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Abington opens its new High School which serves the town from
1903-1934. The building was almost completely destroyed by fire in
1934 and was torn down in the spring of 1936. The land today is
occupied by the Frolio School, and although similar in look the
buildings are not one in the same. |
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Abington celebrates her bicentenial by dedicating the Memorial
Arch and Bridge at Island Grove Park. The day included participation
of all three "Old Abington" towns in a week-long celebration where
factories, schools, and other normal functions paused for the
festivities |
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Abington participates in The Great War, World War I sending
several of her son's into the military including five brothers of
the Bailey family. |
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The Dyer Memorial
Library opens to the public |
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The Historical
Society of Old Abington (comprising of Abington, Rockland, and
Whitman) is established. |
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Abington once again responds to the nations need with many of
it's citizen participating and countless of its families
impacted |
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Abington Zoning Board of Appeals established |
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The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Corporation,
cause of the Abington Riot, is sold to Penn Central |
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Abington Historical Commission
established by popular vote by the town |
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Chapter 11 in the By-Laws of the Town of Abington are accepted
setting down the description, objectives, mandates, and procedures
to be used by the Historical Commission. |
