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1999: New High School approved
Marblehead votes overwhelming in a town wide election to build a new High School at Tents Corner on the Sevinor Land taken for that purpose by imminent domain in the 1970's. Planning and design begins, opening scheduled for 2002.
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1775: Battle of Bunker Hill
Captain Samuel Russell Trevett, leads the Marblehead Company at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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1877: First Great Fire of Marblehead
The First Great Fire of Marblehead wiped out the manufacturing center of the Town (consuming 72 buildings, including the Central Fire Station) and the income of most of the inhabitants. It started in a stable at the rear of a hotel near the Lynn Shoe Factory, and burned to the … Continue reading
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1633: First mention of the name Marblehead
The first mention of the name "Marblehead" in the Colonial records "July 2, 1633, James White is ffine xxxs for drunkeness by him comitted att Marblehead, on the Sabbath day. John Bennet is ffined xs for being drunke at Marblehead. Their true residency, however, was not established by the records.
have been adapted with thanks from Bill Purdin’s Marblehead History Timeline published by Marblehead Magazine.
