Market Hotel (later Porter's Hotel) built. 1832 - Cambridge Fire Department and Cambridge Book Club established. 1833 Hunt & Co's Circulating Library in business. First Parish meeting house built, corner Church St. and Mass. Ave. 1835 - West Cambridge Social Library active. 1837 August 31: Emerson gives "American Scholar" speech. East Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society formed. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow moves to Craigie House. 1839 Hopkins Classical School established. Harvard College Observatory founded. 1840 Cambridge Magnolia begins publication. St. John's Mutual Relief Society organized. Population: 8,409. 1841 - Cambridge Lyceum organized. 1846 Cambridge Chronicle begins publication. Stickney-Shepard House built. Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad begins operating. Alvan Clark & Sons telescope maker in business. City chartered. James D. Green becomes mayor. Population: 12,500. 1847 - Great Refractor telescope installed. 1848 - Franklin Library Association founded. 1849 - Cambridge Athenaeum incorporated. 1850s–1890s 1850 - Howard Benevolent Society organized. 1852 Cambridge Water Works Corporation chartered. Riverside Press established. 1854 - Cambridge Cemetery consecrated. 1856 - Population: 20,473. 1857 Cambridge Circulating Library in business. Walden Street Cattle Pass built. 1858 - Harvard Glee Club founded. 1859 - Museum of Comparative Zoology founded. 1860 - Cambridge Horticultural Society organized. 1861 - Veterans' Services established. 1862 - Sanitary Society active (approximate date). 1865 - Old Cambridge Mutual Relief Society organized. 1866 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and New Church Theological School founded. Cambridge Press newspaper begins publication. 1867 - Episcopal Theological School founded. 1868 - Cambridge Mechanics Literary Association organized. 1869 Old Cambridge Baptist Church built on Harvard Street. North Cambridge Choral Society organized. 1870 - Soldiers' Monument dedicated on Cambridge Common 1871 Cambridge Social Union founded. Alpha Glee Club organized. 1872 - Cambridge Choral Society formed. 1873 The Harvard Crimson newspaper begins publication. Basket Club formed. 1875 Church of the Ascension organized. Kennedy Steam Bakery built. Population: 47,838. 1876 - Harvard Lampoon begins publication. 1877 - Harvard's Memorial Hall built. 1878 The Cambridge Tribune newspaper begins publication. Harvard's Sever Hall built. 1879 - Cambridge Public Library established. 1880 - Population: 52,669. 1881 - Cambridge Club active. 1882 Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women incorporated. Harvard Cooperative founded. 1883 Cambridge YMCA opens. Browne & Nichols School founded. 1884 - Odd Fellows Hall built. 1886 - Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge English High School (Broadway & Fayette St.), Cambridge Latin School (Lee St.), and Cambridge School for Girls established. 1887 - Cambridgeport Cycle Club organized. 1889 City Hall,