Timeline of Reform

1819	First Worcester County Anti-Slavery Convention held at Court House
1830	First Worcester County Temperance Society organized at Old South Church
1833	State Lunatic Asylum opened on Summer Street, first in the nation
1837	Ministers' Convention Against Slavery held at Town Hall
1838	Worcester County Anti-Slavery Society formed, North & South divisions Young Men's Anti-Slavery Convention held at Brinley Hall, first in Massachusetts
1839	Worcester Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle formed
1839	Whigs held first state convention at the Unitarian church
1844	Convention protesting the admission of Texas as a slave state held at Town Hall
1846	Peace Convention held at Brinley Hall
1848	Free Soil Party, a new national political party, organized at City Hall
1849	Children's Friend Society founded
1850	First National Woman's Rights Convention held at Brinley Hall
1851	Second National Woman's Rights Convention held at Brinley Hall
1854	Mass meeting to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill at City Hall
1855	Mission Chapel dedicated
1857	Children's Temperance Festival held at Mechanics Hall

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