First Sunday School in Mercer County

Organized in 1817

by Samuel Webster

Teacher of Log School

Marker is at the intersection of Mercer Road (Pennsylvania Route 58) and Salem Road, on the right on Mercer Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Georgia’s First School of Medicine

The property on which the Widows Home is located was the site of Augusta’s first City Hospital. Constructed in 1818, the hospital provided for the “sick poor” of Augusta and later evolved into the present University Hospital. At City Hospital, ...

Site of First Louisiana School

1725

On this site Father Raphael de Luxembourg Capuchin Pastor of the parish Church of St. Louis (later the Cathedral) opened the first school in French Colonial Louisiana. Classes in reading, writing, music, French, Latin and religion were conducted for ...

Sterling’s First Public School

This tablet commemorates the establishment of the first public school in the Sterling settlement, October, 1875. It was taught by Carrie G. Ayres, later Mrs. J. N. Hall of Denver. The sod schoolhouse stood 3160 feet east and the sod ...

First Military Flying School

(U.S. Naval Air Station, North Island)

The flat lands beyond have been a part of aviation history since Gleen Curtis founded the first military flying school in America here on January 17, 1911. The Army operated Rockwell Field until January 31, ...

First Flint River Baptist Normal Institute / Union Normal School

First Flint River Baptist Normal Institute

In 1876, the First Flint River Missionary Baptist Association was formed to help “lift the veil of ignorance from its people” using land purchased in 1896 and 1915. The Association established First Flint River Baptist ...

First School Safety Patrol in America

On May 24, 1916

the Newark Board of Education

on the recommendation of

Charles A. MacCall, Supervisor of Attendance

and

Felix Dunn of the Newark Police Department

established the first School Safety Patrol in our nation.

Patrol members through their continuous service

have practiced and taught safety

thus initiating ...

First Arab High School

In the early 1900s, students from Arab enrolled at Albertville High School because Arab didn’t have a high school. On group, called the “Brindlee Mountain Boys”, would travel to Guntersville by buggy and then by train to Albertville to attend ...

First Latin School of New Amsterdam

The first Latin School of New Amsterdam was founded on this site in 1659 by Dr. Alexander Carolus Cursius Curtius, Lithuanian nobleman and scholar who came to the Dutch colony as Latin School Master upon the invitation of Governor Peter ...

Site of First School in Fall River Valley

In 1868, near this spot, the first school in Fall River Valley was built. The building was of log construction, 20 feet by 30 feet, with no floor or windows. About 1870 the first sawmill in the valley was built ...