• Thumbnail for Great Chelsea fire of 1908
    The Great Chelsea fire of 1908, also known as the first Great Chelsea fire, was a conflagration that occurred on April 12, 1908, in Chelsea, Massachusetts...
    5 KB (682 words) - 02:00, 23 October 2024
  • The Great Chelsea fire of 1973, also known as the second Great Chelsea fire, was a conflagration that occurred on October 14, 1973, in Chelsea, Massachusetts...
    7 KB (956 words) - 16:31, 8 May 2024
  • Great Chelsea Fire may refer to one of the notable fires that have occurred in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.: Great Chelsea fire of 1908, also known as...
    403 bytes (92 words) - 06:28, 14 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of disasters in Massachusetts by death toll
    Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners Volume 11, Part 1880. 1880. pp. 186–187. Retrieved 19 February 2022. "Great Chelsea Fire of 1908". Celebrate...
    33 KB (2,100 words) - 20:08, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chelsea, Massachusetts
    1973, the Second Great Chelsea Fire burned 18 city blocks, leaving nearly a fifth of the city in ashes. Both fires originated in Chelsea's "rag shop district...
    68 KB (5,527 words) - 04:06, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bellingham Square Historic District
    Bellingham Square Historic District (category National Register of Historic Places in Chelsea, Massachusetts)
    the district was almost entirely built in the aftermath of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, and is a monument to the civic planning that took place at...
    5 KB (404 words) - 18:31, 5 August 2023
  • fire of 1872 led to the appointment of a board of fire commissioners. The Boston Fire Department also provided assistance in the Great Chelsea Fire of...
    32 KB (2,825 words) - 12:33, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 101st Infantry Regiment (United States)
    101st Infantry Regiment (United States) (category Infantry regiments of the United States Army)
    state, in domestic crises like the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908. The regiment, and units within it, became a source of civic pride in Boston, celebrated...
    20 KB (2,560 words) - 05:13, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grenfell Tower fire
    June 2017. "London fire: Sense of community shines through". BBC online. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017. "Kensington And Chelsea Councillor Kim Taylor-Smith...
    224 KB (21,571 words) - 12:42, 6 October 2024
  • the first Great Chelsea Fire. In May 1908 the Massachusetts General Court passed an act creating a Board of Control to perform the duties of the mayor...
    16 KB (1,083 words) - 17:00, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of disasters in the United States by death toll
    fatalities List of hotel fires in the United States List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States Freedmen massacres List of notable disease...
    184 KB (1,813 words) - 14:35, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ellen M. Stone
    Balkans, concluding with the story of the captivity, were destroyed in the Great Chelsea fire of 1908, on April 12, 1908, with all her belongings. She was...
    13 KB (1,523 words) - 10:33, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Monument to the Great Fire of London
    the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern end of London...
    22 KB (2,450 words) - 22:16, 27 October 2024
  • Edmund Billings (category Collectors of the Port of Boston)
    of the People's Institute. Billings was a member of relief committees that aided the victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Great Chelsea Fire...
    11 KB (1,264 words) - 07:37, 25 May 2024
  • including many of the city's historical buildings destroyed. 1908 – First Great Chelsea Fire on April 12. Nearly half the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts...
    59 KB (6,745 words) - 16:47, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benjamin Silverman Apartments
    Benjamin Silverman Apartments (category Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts)
    part of a second wave of Jewish migration to various Boston neighborhoods, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating Great Chelsea fire of 1908, which...
    3 KB (317 words) - 16:33, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for E. Leroy Sweetser
    E. Leroy Sweetser (category Boston University School of Law alumni)
    response to the Great Chelsea fire of 1908. In March 1913, Sweetser received promotion to brigadier general and assignment as commander of the Massachusetts...
    19 KB (1,722 words) - 18:21, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conflagration
    Conflagration (redirect from Fire Disaster)
    whole sections of a city." Notable examples includes the Great Fire of London in 1666, the Great Fire of Tartu in 1775, the Great Fire of Turku in 1827...
    23 KB (777 words) - 21:08, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shepard S. Woodcock
    (Chelsea, MA: 1860) City of Chelsea: Mayor's Address; Elective Officers for 1861; Fourth Financial Report, for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1860 (Chelsea,...
    31 KB (1,706 words) - 18:06, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Congregation Agudath Shalom
    Congregation Agudath Shalom (category National Register of Historic Places in Chelsea, Massachusetts)
    congregation's previous building was destroyed in the great fire. It is the oldest surviving synagogue in Chelsea, a city that was one-third Jewish at the time...
    7 KB (356 words) - 16:22, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Chelsea Creek
    Battle of Chelsea Creek was the second military engagement of the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It is also known as the Battle of Noddle's...
    23 KB (2,617 words) - 15:56, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crosby Hall, London
    Crosby Hall, London (category History of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
    Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. It now forms part of a private residence, which in 2021 was renamed Crosby Moran Hall. The Great Hall, and additional work of 1910 and...
    39 KB (4,241 words) - 21:12, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla
    Convent of Jesus and Mary, Chelsea, Shimla is a private English medium school, founded by a French nun, Marie Claudine Thevenet of the Religious of Jesus...
    44 KB (5,143 words) - 21:08, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for London
    London (redirect from London, Great Britain)
    culminating in the Great Plague of 1665–1666, which killed up to 100,000 people, or a fifth of the population. The Great Fire of London broke out in...
    260 KB (23,685 words) - 18:29, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for County of London
    ‡The Metropolitan Boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth and Paddington. §The Metropolitan Boroughs of Camberwell, Deptford, Fulham...
    16 KB (1,279 words) - 07:33, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Springfield race riot of 1908
    The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans...
    264 KB (33,915 words) - 07:58, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for London sewer system
    London sewer system (category Metropolitan Board of Works)
    such as Chelsea, Deptford and Abbey Mills, pumping stations were built to raise the water and provide sufficient flow. Many sewers north of the Thames...
    12 KB (1,308 words) - 14:05, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Bartholomew-the-Great
    Monasteries, about half of the priory's church was ransacked before being demolished in 1543. Having escaped the Great Fire of London of 1666, the church fell...
    30 KB (3,137 words) - 10:50, 31 July 2024
  • Hounslow Coat of arms of Islington Coat of arms of Kensington and Chelsea Coat of arms of Kingston upon Thames Coat of arms of Lambeth Coat of arms of Lewisham...
    24 KB (992 words) - 10:10, 14 October 2024
  • John Barradell (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    (born 20 August 1960), served as Town Clerk and Chief Executive of the Corporation of London (2012–23). Educated at Bishop Challoner School, he went up...
    4 KB (285 words) - 17:22, 22 October 2024