1785 Tyngtown created
1789 Samuel Butterfield settled in East Wilton
1790 Josiah Green built first log cabin
1793 Sally Butterfield - first child born
1793 Hammon Brown - first male child born
1803 First town meeting at Henry Butterfield Inn
1803 Wilton became 149th town of Maine
1804 First school/Wilton East Wilton/Weiden property 1996
1810 304 population
1810 Solomon Adams - first cotton mill in state
1814 First minister - Rev. Nehemiah Hunt
1816 Samuel Butterfield died
1817 18 schools in Wilton
1818 Completed Meeting House
1823 Sylvia Hardy, giantess, was born
1832 Church groups built white meeting house
(Academy Hill School - 1996)1834 Blanchard School built
1840 Walker Woolen Mill built
1858 First train to go through Wilton
1860 Roy Furnel started first big textile operation
1860 165 men answered Lincoln's request for volunteers
1867 Wilton Academy started
1869 Big snow storm!
1870 Peg mill
1870 Congregational Church
1876 G. H. Bass started shoe business
1878/80 Roy Furnel sold out to Walker Woolen Mill
1880 Newspaper (Wilton Record)
1886 Fire
1887 Bass moved to where Wilton Water Company is ??
1888 Sylvia Hardy, giantess, died
1891 Goodspeed bought old Furnel Mill
1893 Fire
1895 Wilton Academy free high school for residents
1896 First cottage on Wilson Lake
1898 McCrillis Corner School erected
1901 First library ( Holmes Block) -Wilton Free Public Lib.
1902 First cabin Camp Kineowatha
1903 Central Grammar School built
1904 Bass moves to site on lake
1904 Hiram Holt Co. sold to N. Wayne Tool Co.
1906 First Bass Moccasin
1911 Wilton Trust Co. began
1911 Soldiers' Monument erected
1915 Goodspeed Memorial Library Building opened to house the Wilton Free Public Library
1920 W.G. Colby organizes fire department
1920 First soldier killed in World War I
1923 Wilton Trust Co. burglarized and enlarged
1924 Town bought first motorized fire equipment
1930 Second story built on Wilton Trust Co.
1931 Wilson Lake Country Club started
1931 Walker Woolen Mill in E. Wilton destroyed by fire
1946 McCrillis Corner School discontinued
1948 Ann Elizabeth Bass started Camp Kineowatha, girls' camp
1949 Primary School built (grades K-1)
1950 Wilton Academy Gym built by Wilton Woolen Co.
1951 St. Mary's Church built
1953 Flood!
1953 Wilton's Sesquicentennial
1954 Wilton Trust Co. becomes part of Depositor's Trust Co.
1958 Wilton Woolen Mill closed
1959 Wilton Tanning Co. started
1960 Burning of Wilton Hotel and Town Hall
1960 New US Rt. 2
1960 Depositors Trust Bank robbed
1969 New addition to Depositor's Trust Co.
1969 Big snow storm!
HISTORIC DATES FOR CALENDAR 1997
* 13 JAN 1815 WILTON POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED 13 JAN 1900 TYNGTOWN CLUB ORGANIZED 28 JAN 1828 WILTON METHODIST SOCIETY ORGANIZED 30 JAN 1899 DRYDEN POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED 31 JAN 1914 NOTCH POST OFFICE DISCONTINUED * 01 FEB 1905 RURAL FREE DELIVERY ESTABLISHED 19 FEB 1818 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORGANIZED 25-28 FEB 1969 MAJOR SNOW STORM 29 FEB 1828 EAST WILTON POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED * 06 MAR 1995 FORSTER INC., WILTON DIVISION SOLD TO DIAMOND BRAND 07 MAR 1871 HIRAM HOLT GRANTED PATENT FOR LIGHTNING HAYKNIFE 09 MAR 1876 G.H. BASS BEGAN SHOE BUSINESS 27 MAR 1953 MAJOR FLOOD 15 MAR 1870 PRESENT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH DEDICATED * 01 APR 1987 MAJOR FLOOD 02 APR 1893 GREAT FIRE MAJOR BUSINESS AREA DESTROYED 25 APR 1829 EAST DIXFIELD POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED * 10 MAY 1980 ACADEMY FIRE 21 MAY 1838 NORTH WILTON POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED * 10 JUN 1987 BASS BOARDING HOUSE TRANSFERRED BY BASS TO WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 20 JUN 1793 FIRST CHILD BORN IN WILTON - SALLY BUTTERFIELD 21 JUN 1901 WILSON GRANGE INCORPORATED 22 JUN 1803 WILTON BECOMES MAINE'S 149TH TOWN 22 JUN 1903 CENTENNIAL 22 JUN 1953 SESQUICENTENNIAL 22 JUN 2000 BICENTENNIAL * 12 JUL 1953 SESQUICENTENNIAL TIME CAPSULE CEREMONY 23 JUL 1959 WILTON TANNING CO. GROUND BREAKING * 04 AUG 1913 JOE KNOWLES ENTERS WOODS 08 AUG 1970 FIRST WHS TOUR OF OLD WILTON HOMES 10 AUG 1803 FIRST TOWN MEETING HELD AT HENRY BUTTERFIELD HOUSE IN EAST WILTON 25 AUG 1888 SYLVIA HARDY, GIANTESS, DIED * 10 SEP 1867 WILTON ACADEMY OPENED 21 SEP 1894 WILSON GRANGE FOUNDED 23 SEP 1793 FIRST BOY BORN IN WILTON - HAMMON BROWN * 06 OCT 1923 BANK ROBBERY 20 OCT 1963 HISTORICAL CARAVAN 22 OCT 1784 CAPT. TYNG & COMPANY GRANTED TOWNSHIP OF LAND 23 OCT 1915 GOODSPEED MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING PRESENTED TO TOWN 20 OCT 1916 KINEOWATHA CAMPS SUCCEED BLUE MOUNTAIN CAMPS * 06 NOV 1963 WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED 06 NOV 1865 NORTH WILTON POST OFFICE DISCONTINUED 20 NOV 1882 NORTH POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED 28 NOV 1940 ACADEMY GYM PRESENTED BY WILTON WATER CO. * 06 DEC 1795 FIRST MEETING OF TYNGSTOWN PROPRIETORS AT SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD'S HOME 06 DEC 1902 WILTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPENED - MARY E. BASS, LIBRARIAN
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