The First Building of the Centre Congregational Church

Here Stood the First Building

Of the Centre Congregational Church

Erected in 1815

Moved to Its Present Site 1842

This Marker Was Placed July 5, 1916

Marker is on Park Place 0.1 miles east of ...

First General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ

In the Bonnet School House,

on this site, the first

General Conference of

the Church of the United

Brethren in Christ

was held A.D. 1815.

Marker is on Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 31), on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Lutheran Synod

Lutheran congregations formed in Perry County beginning in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. The Mother Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, sent missionary pastors to Ohio to preach to the growing number of Lutherans moving into the ...

The First Baptist Church of Christ

at Macon

This church was founded in 1826 as the city’s first Baptist congregation. It was first located at the site of the present Bibb County Courthouse. The fourth and final move, to this site, occurred in 1883 and the current ...

The First Capitol

Wisconsin's Territorial Government

On April 20, 1836, Congress passed an act establishing the Wisconsin Territory, composed of the present states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the eastern halves of North and South Dakota. President Andrew Jackson signed the bill ...

Site of First African Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific

This is the site of the first church building associated with an African American religious congregation on the Pacific Coast. The church was the Methodist Church of Colored People of Sacramento City, formally organized in 1850. In 1851 the congregation ...

The world's first automobile fatality

happened here on 31 August 1869

Shortly after 8:00pm that evening a pioneering steam carriage designed and built by William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse, left the castle gates and drove at walking pace along Oxmantown Mall before turning the ...

The First Meeting of Washington and Rochambeau

This tablet commemorates the historic first meeting of General George Washington and General Comte de Rochambeau, commander-in-chief of the French army in America, which took place September 20, 1780.

On that occasion and in a subsequent meeting the following May, ...

Columbus’ First Theater

(Side 1):

A pioneer theatrical entrepreneur, Sol Smith, 1801-1869, built many theaters in the Deep South, including New Orleans and Mobile and the first permanent theater west of the Mississippi in St. Louis, a city that he and partner Noah Ludlow ...

Original site of the First Catholic Church in 1887

The present, remodeled bank building was constructed in 1936 as the second St. Malchy Church. In the early 1980's the structure was sold to the newly formed Sierra National Bank, which was acquired by the Bank of the Sierra in ...