The First National Bank No. 1

Erected - 1883

Constructed in 1883, this building was originally the Lyman Bank and is the oldest brick building in the downtown commercial district. The bank was reorganized as the First National Bank of Sanford and in 1908 the building was ...

Site of the First Alabama - Auburn Football Game

The first Alabama - Auburn football game was played on this site, formerly known as the Base Ball Park, on February 22, 1893. The Agricultural and Mechanical College's "Orange and Blue" met the University of Alabama's "Tuskaloosa" squad before a ...

(Map of the First 100 Lots)

Here on this small bluff overlooking the Cape Fear River, Joshua Potts in the year 1790 envisioned a town surrounding old Fort Johnston. “Braced up by the effects of the salubrious breeze, from the sea,” Joshua Potts laid out the ...

First Traffic Fatality in Ohio/The National Road

First Traffic Fatality in Ohio

As he traveled the National Road on August 20, 1835, the last diary entry by Christopher C. Baldwin, librarian for the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, was, “Start by stage on the Cumberland Road for ...

Site Of The First Mission In Texas

Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur

Founded in 1682 By Don Antonio de Otermin and Padre

Fray Francisco Ayeta O.F.M.

for the civilizing and Christianizing of the Tigua Indians.

Pueblo Revolt refugees, formally located at La Ysleta,

New Mexico. Building damaged by ...

First Erosion Control Work in the Southeast

On Dec. 18, 1933, work began on the J.L. Berry Gully, 1.5 miles S.E. as part of the South Tyger River Erosion Control Demonstration Project by the USDI Soil Erosion Service, Dr. T.S. Bule, Project Director. This project was a ...

First Indiana State Meeting of the Christian Churches

First

Indiana State

Meeting

of the

Christian Churches

(Disciples of Christ)

was held in

Central Christian Church.

Then on the South Side

of Kentucky Avenue

between Capitol and

Senate Avenues,

June 7-11, 1839This marker dedicated at the 125th anniversary state ...

Wisconsin's First School for the Deaf

In 1839 Ebenezer Cheseboro emigrated to Wisconsin from New York and settled in the town of Darien, two miles west of Delavan on the Janesville road. Due to the lack of a school for his deaf daughter, Ariadna, a teacher ...

The First National Thanksgiving

Was proclaimed from York by the Continental Congress on November 1, 1777 to be celebrated on Thursday, December 18. It was written by Sam Adams of Massachusetts. "The Father of the Revolution," who advocated for the first time "one day ...

The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

Near site of The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

About 1833 Leman Kelsy built a story-and-a-half clapboard structure near this location. When Columbia became capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836, the building was one of ...