Chelsea (Massachusetts)
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1624 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Massachusetts | |
County : | Suffolk County | |
Coordinates : | 42 ° 24 ′ N , 71 ° 2 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 39,690 (as of 2019) | |
Population density : | 6,914.6 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 6.38 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 5.74 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 3 m | |
Postal code : | 02150 | |
Area code : | +1 617, 857 | |
FIPS : | 25-13205 | |
GNIS ID : | 0612723 | |
Website : | www.chelseama.gov |
Chelsea is an American city in Suffolk County , Massachusetts , separated from the metropolis of Boston by the Mystic River .
With 35,177 residents, it is the smallest town in Massachusetts.
geography
Chelsea is located on a peninsula in Boston Harbor and is bordered to the north by Revere and to the west and north-west by Everett . To the southwest, Chelsea is separated from Boston’s Charlestown by the Mystic River , and to the east it is separated from East Boston by the Chelsea River (also sometimes referred to as Chelsea Creek ). It is located near Logan International Airport in East Boston.
history
The Chelsea area was first named Winnisimmet (which means "good spring nearby"), after a Native American tribe who once lived in the area.
It was founded in 1624 by Samuel Maverick as a permanent trading post . In 1635 Maverick sold Winnisimmet to Richard Bellingham . The parish remained part of Boston until it was spun off and named after Chelsea , a neighborhood in London , England in 1793 .
In 1775, the area was fought at the Battle of Chelsea Creek , the second battle of the Revolution in which American forces hijacked a British ship. Part of George Washington's army was stationed in Chelsea ( Siege of Boston ).
Chelsea originally comprised North Chelsea, (now Revere), Winthrop and parts of Saugus . In 1846, North Chelsea was designated as a separate city. Chelsea was re-established in 1857. It developed as an industrial center: rubber , boats, shoes and adhesives were made here. It became the home of the Chelsea Naval Hospital designed by Alexander Parris . On April 12, 1908, almost half of the city was destroyed in the first major Chelsea fire. In 1973 the Second Great Chelsea Fire burned eighteen blocks of houses . In 1950, the Tobin Bridge , which connects Chelsea with Boston, was completed.
More recently there has been an increased emphasis on economic development and the boom in Boston has led to an influx of new business and home buyers. In 1998, Chelsea became the winner of the All-America City Award . The town is home to a Carnegie library that was built in 1910.
Attractions
The National Register of Historic Places lists eight historic locations: Bellingham Square Historic District, Bellingham-Cary House (home of Governor Richard Bellingham), C. Henry Kimball House, Chelsea Garden Cemetery, Congregation Agudath Shalom (a synagogue), Downtown Chelsea Residential Historic District (a borough built in 1908), Naval Hospital Boston Historic Distric, and the Revere Beach Parkway.
Demographic data
Population development | |||
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Census | Residents | ± in% | |
1790 | 472 | - | |
1800 | 849 | 79.9% | |
1810 | 594 | -30% | |
1820 | 642 | 8.1% | |
1830 | 771 | 20.1% | |
1840 | 2390 | 210% | |
1850 | 6701 | 180.4% | |
1860 | 13,395 | 99.9% | |
1870 | 18,547 | 38.5% | |
1880 | 21,782 | 17.4% | |
1890 | 27,909 | 28.1% | |
1900 | 34,072 | 22.1% | |
1910 | 32,452 | -4.8% | |
1920 | 43.184 | 33.1% | |
1930 | 45,816 | 6.1% | |
1940 | 41,259 | -9.9% | |
1950 | 38,912 | -5.7% | |
1960 | 33,749 | -13.3% | |
1970 | 30,625 | -9.3% | |
1980 | 25,431 | -17% | |
1990 | 28,710 | 12.9% | |
2000 | 35,080 | 22.2% | |
2010 | 35,177 | 0.3% |
Well known residents and native Chelseaers
- Chick Corea (* 1941), jazz musician
- Horatio Alger (1832-1899), author
- Alfred Winsor Brown (1885–1938), 31st Naval Governor of Guam
- Norman Cota (1893–1971), United States Army General
- Albert Henry DeSalvo (1931–1973), the Boston Strangler ( Boston Strangler )
- Reginald Heber Fitz (1843–1913), pathologist and researcher into " appendicitis "
- Jack Harvey (1907–1986), Wisconsin State Assembly member
- Ray Hyman (* 1928), psychologist
- Herbert Kalmus (1881–1963), scientist and businessman (Technicolor)
- Brian Kelly (born 1961), football coach
- Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), scientist and inventor
- Joseph C. O'Mahoney (1884–1962), United States Senator from Wyoming
- Charles E. Mitchell (1877–1955), banker and co-initiator of Black Thursday
- Jimmy Moran (1886–1951), track cyclist
- Annette Rogers (1913-2006), athlete
- John Ruiz (born 1972), boxer
- Carl Voss (1907–1994), ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
See also
literature
- Chamberlain, Mellen, A documentary history of Chelsea: including the Boston precincts of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point, 1624-1824 , Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1908.
Web links
- Official website
- Chelsea Historical Society
- Chelsea Public Library
- Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
- Community Action Programs Inter-City, Inc.
- Chelsea Neighborhood Developers
- The Chelsea Record Newspaper
- Centro Latino de Chelsea
- Chelsea Public Documents
- Fire of 1908
- 1973 fire
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Chelsea city, Massachusetts . US Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved July 3, 2012.