The First Presbyterian Church

Congregation organized in 1817. The Sanctuary was built in 1828-29 and enlarged in 1851. The Romanesque Revival rear addition was built in 1900 in honor of Joseph Stratton, Pastor, 1843-1903. The church and its companion manse on South Rankin Street ...

The First Milwaukeeans

Indian villagers are credited with giving Milwaukee its name, which may have derived from Mahnawauk, Meolaki or Milwacky. Those words may be references to the Milwaukee River or a medicinal plant, but the most common translation is "good land."

Athens First Presbyterian Church

This church was organized in 1829 as a Cumberland Presbyterian church by the Revs. Robert Donnell, John Morgan and Allen Gipson.

After first using an interdenominational building, a church was built on West Washington street in 1852.

This was badly damaged ...

First People in the Gallatin Valley

To the Headwaters

For centuries distant and diverse tribes visited the Gallatin Valley to hunt. They stampeded buffalo over cliffs during the "dog days" before the acquisition of horses and guns. They hunted animals for food, clothing and shelter. They also ...

Early Roads / One of the South's First Railroads 1832

Side A

Tennessee Street along the north side of the square was originally part of Gaines’ Trace, a horse path laid out in 1807 under the direction of Capt. Edmund Pendleton Gaines of the U. S. Army. From Melton’s Bluff on ...

Battle of Jonesboro The First Day

Aug. 31, 1864. This immediate area was occupied by the Army of the Tenn. [US], commanded by Gen. O. O. Howard. These troops, Logan’s 15th, Ransom’s 16th & Blair’s 17th corps, marched to this position from Fairburn the previous day; ...

The First Commercial Monorail in the United States

In commemoration

of service and honor

to the Seattle World’s Fair

April 21 – October 21 1962

and the City of Seattle

Placed in tribute this 19th day

of October 1962 at the site of

the Northern Termius of the ...

Union Fiasco - The First Battle

On Christmas Day 1864 Federal warships engaged the fort. Approximately 2,700 Union infantry disembarked from the Union transports. However, the absence of army/navy cooperation, bad weather, and rumors of rebel reinforcements prevented the success of the expedition.

Marker can be reached ...

The First Provincial Congress

The First Provincial Congress

of delegates from the towns of

Massachusetts

was called by conventions of

the people to meet at Concord on the

eleventh day of October 1774.

The delegates assembled here

in the Meeting-House on that day

and organized

with John Hancock as President

and Benjamin Lincoln ...

The First Hundred Years are the Hardest

When Sacramento bought steam pumpers the volunteers could not keep their steam? up, so they hired professional firemen. Since March 30, 1872, Sacramento paid firemen have always been the first to respond to any crisis.

New Helvetia Chapter No. 5,

E Clampus ...