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1923: USS Marblehead commissioned
U.S.S. Marblehead (CL-12) commissioned by the smashing of a champagne bottle on its bow by Hannah Martin Evans, a World War I "Gold Star" mother, Marblehead's first. The first U.S.S. Marblehead was a Spanish-American War-era ship (C-11). The most recent ship was launched into the Deleware River in Philadelphis.
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1909: First Town football game
The Town's first football team plays against Ipswich and wins (12-6) with Raymond O. Brackett, owner of the Rockmere Hotel, as the head coach, amid some controversy by parents not wanting their sons to play in such a dangerous contact sport. Brackett argued that the team represented Marblehead's fighting spirit … Continue reading
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1871: Railway comes to Marblehead
Eastern Railroad branch from Lynn opens in Marblehead, with small depots at Devereux, Clifton, Beach Bluff and Phillips Beach (Swampscott).
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1999: First Town Historian appointed
Virginia Clegg Gamage is appointed the first official Marblehead Town Historian by the Board of Selectmen. Thomas A. McNulty announces the closing the Warwick Theater to the Board of Selectmen.
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1789: President Washington visits Marblehead
President George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette visit Marblehead to thank the Town for its Revolutionary War sacrifices. "May your prosperity, in the preservation of that liberty so gloriously purchased, ever venerate the memory of their ancestors." -- Lafayette. Washington especially wanted to visit his retired General John Glover, now … Continue reading
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have been adapted with thanks from Bill Purdin’s Marblehead History Timeline published by Marblehead Magazine.
