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First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas ...

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First Settlers in Athens County

In Memoriam

Honoring the first settlers in Athens Co.

from the New England States

Alvan Bingman •

Silas Bingman •

Isaac Barker •

William Harper •

John Wilkins •

Robert Linzee •

Edmond Dorr •

William Dorr •

Barak Dorr •

John Chandler •

Jonathan Watkins

Marker is at the intersection of Court Street ...

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The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore

(Unitarian and Universalist)

In 1817, when Baltimore Town boasted 60,000 inhabitants and Mount Vernon Place was still a forest, a group of leading citizens met in the home of Henry Payson "to form a religious society and build a church ...

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End of the First Day

July 1, 1863 - First Day

"The enemy gave way on all sides, and was driven through Gettysburg with great loss."

Gen. Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.

Commander, Army of Northern Virginia

Infantry and artillery of the Union Eleventh Corps formed in the valley below ...

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The First Academy in Newark

The first academy in Newark was erected near this spot in 1774 by the gifts of generous citizens.

Dedicated to learning, it found, in time of war, a new mission in the cause of liberty, giving useful service as a ...

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The First Presbyterian Church

Organized as the Presbyterian Church of Macon on June 18, 1826, by the Rev. Benjamin Gildersleeve and the Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, the church dedicated this house of worship, its third, on September 19, 1858, at the close of the ...

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First Man Over the Works

The Breakthrough Trail

In the hours, days, and years after the Breakthrough, many Union soldiers boasted that they or their regiment were the first troops to capture the Confederate works on the morning of April 2. Darkness, the chaos of the ...

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Starting Point of the First Traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras P

From this corner on February 24, 1857, the Mistick Krewe of Comus began its first parade, heading up Julia Street toward St. Charles Avenue. With that parade, Mardi Gras was solidified as a New Orleans tradition that ultimately influnced Carnival ...

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The First Japanese Cherry Trees

The first Japanese Cherry Trees, presented to the City of Washington as a gesture of friendship and good will by the City of Tokyo, were planted on this site, March 27, 1912.

Marker is on Independence Avenue east of West ...

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The First Presbyterian Church of Princeton

On this site in the year 1766 was erected

The First Presbyterian Church

of Princeton. During the Revolutionary

War it was occupied, first by British soldiers

and afterwards by The Colonial Forces

This edifice was built in the year

1836

Marker is at the intersection of Nassau ...

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