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.

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First Transcontinental Call

First Transcontinental Telephone call was submitted by a telephone of this type January 25, 1915. Mr. Theodore N. Vail, President American Telephone and Telegraph Company talked from Jekyll Island, Georgia to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone in ...

28th Illinois Infantry

Williams' Brigade - Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

28th Illinois Infantry,

Williams' (1st) Brig., Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here at 4 P.M. April 6, 1862 and then fell back to siege guns.

Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah Road ½ mile north of ...

Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson (also known as Camp Crittenden) was the second of two Union Army posts established in Ballard County in September 1861, following the Confederate occupation of Columbus. Fort Jefferson was first established during the American Revolution by George Rogers ...

Attack of the 17th Massachusetts

It was along the top of this railroad embankment that one Union regiment, the 17th

Massachusetts, approached the railroad bridge one quarter mile to your left. As the men

of the 17th fought their way along the top of the ...

2nd Iowa Infantry

Tuttle's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

2d Iowa Infantry,

Tuttle's (1st) Brigade,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division.

This regiment was sent to reenforce General Nelson

and by his order made a charge from this position at ...

3rd Iowa Infantry

Williams' Brigade - Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

3d Iowa Infantry,

Williams' (1st) Brig., Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee

This tablet marks position held by the 3d Iowa infantry from 2 P.M. to 3 P.M. April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Sunken Road 0.1 miles west ...

First ABC Store

First Alcoholic Beverage Control store in N.C. opened here, July 2, 1935, ending Prohibition, state law since 1909.

Marker is on Nash Street East (North Carolina Route 58).

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The Chicago Board of Trade's Statues

Symbolizing Agriculture and Industry

These two statues, one symbolizing agriculture and the other industry, once stood over the main entrance of the Board of Trade Building built in 1885. The statues greeted commodity traders and the public for 45 years. Thought ...

The First Baptist Church

1872

In the summer of 1872 a few residents in the village of Youngsville gathered for a revival held on the hill later occupied by Mistletoe Bough. Alexander City’s First Baptist Church and the First United Methodist Church trace their origins ...