HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1825 | Erie Canal completed | economy | ||
| 1826 | Lowell, Massachusetts incorporated | economy, women's work | ||
| 1841 | Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" | women's work | ||
| 1849 | California Gold Rush | economy | ||
| 1861 | Civil War economy boosts Massachusetts manufacturing | economy | ||
| 1870 | First transcontinental train leaves Boston on a 39-day journey across the United States | economy | ||
| 1870 | French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns | labor, economy, immigration | ||
| 1880 | New England fisheries decline | economy, maritime | ||
| 1890 | Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles | labor, economy | ||
| 1912 | Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts | For photos and original documents provided by the SUNY-Binghamtom, "Women and Social Movements" Web site see, "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?" | labor, economy | |
| 1924 | First of New England textile mills moves south | labor, economy | ||
| 1940 | World war II fuels new industries in New England | economy |