The First French Fort / The First Playground in Fort Wayne

[Left side of marker]:The First French Fort

The French lived among the Miami at the Three Rivers as early as 1697 when Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (d. 1719), and Francois Marie Bissot de Vincennes, the son of Jean Baptiste ...

“the first link in the chain of successes which issued in the su

East

The River Crossing

Travelers on the road to Bennington in 1777 crossed the Walloomsac River on a bridge where today’s bridge stands at the foot of this hill. To defend this important crossing, Baum placed his Brunswick grenadiers and a few ...

The First Brick Building in Sacramento

The Bridge Lunch Restaurant was the last of a long line of restaurants, saloons and boardinghouses located at, or nearby, 1323 Front Street, the first brick structure in the city. George Zins, a native of Searsburg, Lorraine, started a brick-making ...

First Municipal Airport in the United States

Arizona Historic Site

[Marker Front:]

This ground was the location

of the

First Municipal Airport

in the

United States

The Tucson City Council approved the

financing for the airport, July 21, 1919

and

the City of Tucson in cooperation

with the Tucson Chamber of Commerce

established and constructed

the airport.

The first plane landed ...

First Japanese on the North American Continent

In October 1832, the Japanese cargo ship Hojun Maru set sail from near Nagoya bound for Edo (present day Tokyo). Disabled in a storm off Enshu Nada, the Hojun Maru drifted for fourteen months before running aground on the coast ...

The First Fort Vancouver

In 1824 the Hudson's Bay Company chose this place as the site for a new fort which they named Vancouver in honor of the British explorer, George Vancouver. Little is knowns of this fort as it was moved early in ...

The First Presbyterian Church of Florence

1931

This second-oldest Presbyterian Church in continuous usage in Arizona was founded in 1888. The present building was designed by architects Wallingford and Bell of Phoenix in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with mission-type tile on the roof. George Smith and ...

The First Memorial Day

Historic New York

Memorial Day

On May 5, 1866, the residents of Waterloo held the first complete,

community-wide observance of Memorial Day. They dedicated the entire day to honoring the Civil War dead in a solemn and patriotic manner. Throughout the village, flags, ...

First Evangelical Lutheran Church

This marks the site of the

First Evangelical Lutheran Church

in Moe Settlement

1863 — 1892

Marker can be reached from Peterson Road south of Wisconsin Highway 16, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Presbyterian Church in Tucson

On this site stood the first Presbyterian Church, and the second Protestant Church in Arizona. It was organized in 1874 for Presbyterian Missions in the Territories by the Reverend Sheldon Jackson and constructed by the Reverend J. A. Anderson, with ...