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Bender’s Bagels company history timeline

1852

The maps for the city first started to be drawn up in 1852.

1853

The city was founded in 1853 and was named after the builder of the Pacific Railroad that ran through the area, James P. Kirkwood.

The railroad reached the town in 1853 and lots for the Kirkwood Association were sold by the developers.

1892

The beuglich described in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (1892) as "circular twisted rolls" suggest the obwarzanek, a twisted, fresh ring pretzel dating from the Middle Ages and still sold by street vendors in Poland and the large twister bagels sold in Toronto in the twenty-first century.

1893

A station was built in the town in 1893 which was designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style.

1895

The Meramec Highlands resort was built on a bluff above the town in 1895.

1915

Eastern European immigrants brought their skills as bagel bakers to the New World—by 1915 a bagel bakers union #338 had formed in New York City.

1944

The museum first opened in 1944.

1951

Pfefferblit, Irving. "The Bagel." Commentary 7 (May 1951): 475–479.

1960

In 1960 Dan Thompson invented the first machine for making bagels.

1962

By 1962 the Lenders were baking and freezing their bagels and distributing their goods nationally.

1963

In 1963 the first automated bagel-forming machines were introduced in New Haven, Connecticut; Buffalo, New York; and St Louis, Missouri.

1976

The farmers market in the town was first established in 1976.

1979

Since it first opened in 1979 it has had a total of more than ten million visitors.

2021

Kirkwood takes down DMACC in the Semifinals May 21, 2021

2022

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara "Bagel ." Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. . Retrieved June 21, 2022 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/food/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bagel

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