COUNTRIES, TOWNS, CITIES
Ave Maria ..... the FIRST purpose-built Roman Catholic town in America - July 21st 2007
Cabarras County ..... North Carolina ..... site of America's FIRST gold rush
Camden - New Jersey ..... location of the FIRST drive-in movie theater in 1932 which was created by chemical manufacturer Richard Hollingshead Jr
Chicago School of Sociology ..... the FIRST university department of sociology which was founded in 1892 in Chicago by Albion Small. In the 1920s and 30s it became an important centre for the social services, studying urban life, including crime and deviance, in Chicago
Colony Club ..... the FIRST elite social club for women in New York
Concord ..... Massachusetts ..... on 19th April 1775 it was the site of the FIRST battle of the War of American Independence
Deadwood ….. Samuel Blodgett and John Pearson found the FIRST gold in the Black Hills of Dakota in 1875 and the First Gold Mine saloon now stands over the original site of that first mine. Reverend Henry Weston Smith was the FIRST minister to Deadwood in 1876 and Deadwood was also the FIRST city in the Black Hills to have streetlights
Delaware ..... the FIRST American state
Elizabeth ..... city in New Jersey, which was the FIRST English settlement established there in 1664
Flamingo - The ..... the FIRST hotel to be built on the famous Las Vegas strip was built by Bugsy Siegel
Glendale ..... in 1921, in order to promote Glendale nationally, Leslie Brand, a local real estate developer, sponsored America's FIRST "fly-in-" lunch in which prominent people, especially film stars, flew private planes into Glendale to dine
Jamestown ..... FIRST permanent British settlement in North America, established by Capt. John Smith in 1607. It was the capital of Virginia (1624-99). In the nearby Jamestown Festival Park there is a replica of the original Fort James and models of the ships Discovery, Godspeed and Constant which carried the 105 pioneers to their new life
Moulin Rouge ..... in 1960 it became the FIRST fully integrated casino and hotel in Las Vegas, due to the Las Vegas NAACP officials who presented an ultimatum to the casino owners of the Strip and Freemont Street to allow black people the same access to the establishments as white people. The agreement was called the Moulin Rouge Agreement and was the FIRST major step in ending Las Vegas's racial history
Nashville ..... the FIRST permanent building for the higher education of African-Americans was in 1867 at Fisk University. The FIRST Metropolitan Government in America was also formed in Nashville-Davidson County. In 1941 Nashville was granted the FIRST FM licence in the US
New York ..... in 1901 it was the FIRST American state to require car licences and in 2007 became the FIRST American city to ban transfats from its restaurant foods
North America ..... in 1869 it was the FIRST continent to have a coast-to-coast railway when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met at Promontory, Utah, to complete the Pacific Railroad
North Carolina ..... in 1898 the FIRST Pepsi was created and served at New Bern
Oberlin Collegiate Institute ..... Ohio ..... the FIRST women's college to admit full time students and was founded by Theodore Weld and a number of colleagues who wished to establish a college with neither sex or colour discrimination. It was the FIRST college to admit negro students and the FIRST to give degrees to women and it became one of the fountainheads of the feminist movement
Pawhuska, Oklahoma ..... in 1909 the FIRST boy scout group in America was formed there
Philadelphia Zoo ..... the FIRST public zoo in America
Roosevelt Hotel ..... Hollywood Boulevard ..... where the FIRST Oscar ceremony took place in 1929
Studio Store ….. the very FIRST shop in Manhattan devoted exclusively to a West Coast motion picture show, It opened in the year 2000
University of Chicago ..... where the FIRST controlled atomic fission reaction took place
Utica ..... industrial city in central New York State where the FIRST Woolworth store opened in 1879
Wyoming ….. FIRST state in America to give women the vote