Prescott's Beginnings: The First Mining District in Yavapai Coun

The City of Prescott had its beginnings in the Spring of 1863 when a party of explorers and would-be gold miners led by the famed Joseph R. Walker arrived near the headwaters of the Hassayampa River. On May 10, 1863, ...

The First Alabama Cavalry

U.S. Army

The First Alabama Cavalry U.S. Army

Organized July 12, 1862 - Dedicated October 20, 1865

Huntsville, Alabama

Colonel George E. Spenser, CommanderOrganized by special order No. 100 by Major General Don Carols Buell of U.S. Army. Over 2000 enlisted during the existence ...

America's First Lady Addressed the People of St. Thomas

(Emancipation Park)

In Commemoration of the visit

to the Virgin Islands

— of —

Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson

Here in Emancipation Park on

June 2, 1965

America's First Lady addressed

the people of St. Thomas

Marker is on Fort Strade, on the left.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Scotts Run/The First Shack

Scotts Run By the 1930s 10,000 residents representing 28 nationalities and tied to the coal industry crowded the hillsides, victims of severe poverty brought on by a coal recession and Great Depression. "The Shack" and Scotts Run Settlement House brought ...

The World's First Scheduled Airline

(Front plaque)From this site

The St. Petersburg-Tampa

Airboat Line

The World's First

Scheduled Airline

Began regular flights

between St. Petersburg

and Tampa, January 1, 1914.

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This plaque and site

dedicated December 4, 1953

by the

City of St. Petersburg

to all the

Airlines of the World

(Rear plaque)In commemoration

of the

World's First

Commericial

Airline Flight

by

Tony Jannus

on January ...

The First Public Children's Playground in the United States

The first public children's playground in the United States was established here in 1887 by gift funds received from the Sharon bequest. The east expansion and rehabilitation work of 1977 were funded by Walter and Elise Haas, by Walter ...

The First Telegram “What Hath God Wrought”

The first telegram “What Hath God Wrought” was sent from the Capitol in Washington to Baltimore May 24, 1844 over wires laid along the right of way of the B&O Railroad adjacent to this highway. The telegraph was invented by ...

The First Baptist Church Huntsville, Alabama

(Front):

The First Baptist Church Huntsville Alabama

Oldest Baptist Church (Missionary) in Alabama organized June 3, 1809 as the West Fork of Flint River Church. Presiding Clergy:

John Canterbury, John McCutchen and John Nicholson.

Renamed Enon Church and called John Canterbury as 1st ...

The First Iron Rails

The first iron rails made in the United States were manufactured in 1844 at Mount Savage. Before that time all iron rails were imported from England.

Marker is on National Highway (U.S. 40) west of Mt. Savage Road NW (Maryland Route ...

First Roads to the West

Before the Europeans, only Indian trails led through virgin forests that once stretched beyond the horizon. About 1750 Nemacolin, a Delaware Indian, blazed a trail past here for the Ohio Company. Four years later, Virginia militia under Lt. Col. George ...