1789 – US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State. 1831 – The locomotive “John Bull” operates for the first time in New Jersey…
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Bladen County was preparing for another hurricane attack. Hurrican Diana was bearing down on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. Bladen County Cablevision was coming…
1716 – 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor) 1814 – Francis Scott Key pens the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry, later known as…
1789 – 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks) 1869 – Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market. 1919 –…
1787 – American statesman George Mason suggested the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion…
1773 – Benjamin Franklin writes “There never was a good war or bad peace” 1847 – 1st singing of Stephen Foster’s “Susanna” (in Pittsburgh) 1923…
1846 – Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine. 1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff’s posse kills twenty unarmed…
1776 – Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies) 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first…
1565 – 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may…
A club championship tournament was held at Oak Grove Golf Course. The ladies club champion was Pam Taylor and the men’s club champion was Terry…
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts if founded. 1913 – “Uncle Sam” 1st used to refer to the US, by Troy Post of New…
1716 – 1st lighthouse built in North America (Boston) 1819 – Thomas Blanchard patents lathe. 1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4…
1774 – With the meeting of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia becomes the 1st capital of United States. 1836 – Sam Houston elected President of the…
1781 – Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes) 1807 – Robert Fulton begins…
1826 – USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe. 1891 – Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas. 1916…
1798 – First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia. 1864 – Union General William T. Sherman…
1752 – Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia. 1799 – Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) 1862 – Federal tax levied…
1837 – Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous “The American Soldier” speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, declares American literary…
It was announced that the Jaycee Chapter in Elizabethtown was number one in North Carolina in their population group. Bladen County unemployment for the month…
1836 – The City of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. 1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S.…
1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history…
1859 – 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1881 – Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die. 1894 –…
1791 – John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat. 1843 – Charles Thurber patents a typewriter. 1895 – Electric generator at Niagara Falls…
1814 – British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812) 1829 – President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but…
Mark Little of Clarkton was announced as the new head baseball coach and assistant football coach at West Stanley High School. Bobby Davis, head pro…
1814 – British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812) 1853 – 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at…
1850 – 1st US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worchester, Massachusetts. 1869 – 1st carload of rail freight (boots & shoes) arrive in San…
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico. 1865 – William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap. 1901 – Cadillac Motor…
1841 – John Hampton patents venetian blind. 1878 – American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY. 1888 – American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the…
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over. 1896 – Dial telephone patented. 1912 – Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect. 1925…
1812 – US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere. 1849 – NY Herald reports gold discovery in California. 1911 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses…
1735 – Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass) 1838 – United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.…
Sylvia Horton was elected president of the Elizabethtown chapter of the American Business Womens Association. Livingston Roberts was announced as the new county executive of…
1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River. 1846 – Commodore Robert F. Stockton, US Navy, annexes California. 1891 – 1st…
1861 – US President Abraham Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy. 1870 – Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn’t an optical illusion. 1898…
September 17th, 1976, Dawson Singletary in his bulk tobacco barn was featured in The Southeastern Times. Tobacco has been an essential part of the state’s…
1635 – 1st recorded North American hurricane hits the Plymouth colony. 1848 – M. Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair. 1876 – US law removes Indians…
1820 – 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC. 1846 – Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes. 1862…
1852 – Steamer “Atlantic” crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit collided with a fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard. 1889 – William Gray patents…
1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine. 1856 – Anthony Fass patents accordion. 1867 – US President Andrew Johnson defies Congress, suspending…
1860 – US’s 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nevada) 1874 – Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head. 1885 – $100,000 raised in US for…
The Elizabethtown Rescue Squad reported that in the previous month they made a total of 75 calls, most ever by the squad. Al Bishop of…
1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. 1833 – Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200.…
1842 – US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty. 1904 – Libanus McLouth Todd of Rochester, New York patents his check-writing machine, the Protectograph designed to…
1786 – US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the money unit for the United States. 1844 – Brigham Young chosen as head of Mormon…
1782 – George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army. 1882 – Hatfields of…
1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. 1861 – US Congress passes First Confiscation…
1812 – War of 1812: Tecumseh’s Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne’s 200 Americans at Brownstown Creek, causing them to flee and retreat. 1846…
1862 – US government collects its 1st income tax. 1892 – Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts on two counts of…
The town commissioners of White Lake announced that the White Lake ABC store would be closing. The Clarkton Tobacco Market opened with great fanfare. The…
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for…
The Mother County Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, August 10th, from 12-2 pm at the Bladenboro Historical Society Building, 818 South Main Street, Bladenboro, NC. …
1867 – Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee) 1893 – Henry Perky patents a machine for the…
1790 – 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. 1876 – US Coast Guard officers’ training school established (New Bedford, Massachusetts)…
1733 – Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston. 1869 – The Charles, considered the world’s first “oil tanker”, departs from the United…
1786 – 1st newspaper published west of Alleghenies, Pitts Gazette. 1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of…
The Board of Directors of Bladen County Hospital announced that the hospital suffered a loss of $5,481.07 in the month of June. The Bladen County…
1868 – US Secretary of State William H. Seward announces 14th Amendment ratified by states, grants citizenship to ex-slaves. 1900 – Hamburger created by Louis…
1586 – Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia. 1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as…
1775 – US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin. 1878 – In California, poet and American West outlaw…
1850 – Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) 1854 – Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar. 1866 –…
1758 – George Washington elected to Virginia House of Burgesses representing Frederick County. 1824 – Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll,…
1716 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation. 1829 – William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter) 1872 – African American inventor…
1796 – Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleveland. 1864 – Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman’s Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with…
1853 – Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island. 1865…
Bladen County Hospital announced that their Employee of the Month was Irene Hathcock. The Town Commissioners of Bladenboro announced that Rodney Warwick was hired as…
1861 – Confederate states’ congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia. 1868 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes. 1890 – Snow and hail…
1845 – Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes and kills many. 1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY, organized by…
1775 – 1st military hospital approved. 1861 – US Congress authorizes paper money. 1867 – 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established.…
1790 – Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States. 1867 – D.R. Averill of…
1870 – Georgia becomes last confederate state to be readmitted to US. 1901 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St. Louis Cards, 5-0. 1904 –…
1798 – 1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves. 1832 – Opium exempted from federal tariff duty. 1845 – 1st postmasters’…
1787 – US Ordinance of 1787 passed, establishes first organized US territory. 1835 – Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw…
1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel by Vice President Aaron Burr. 1843…
1798 – US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress. 1804 – Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary…
1850 – Millard Fillmore sworn in as President of US (replacing Taylor) 1890 – Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage) 1892…
1795 – James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt. 1842 – Notary Stamp Law passes. 1868 – Tennessee and South Carolina are 1st…
1776 – Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia. 1796 – US…
1802 – 1st comic book “The Wasp” is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians. 1863 – 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost…
The “New Dublin Speedway” is opening with a big race scheduled. Houston Brisson, of Dublin, owner of Houston’s Peanuts, buys Carolina Sands Golf Course and…
1785 – US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the “dollar” and adopts decimal coinage. 1798 – US law makes aliens “liable…
1841 – Thomas Cook opens first travel agency. 1865 – US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department. 1891 – Hail kills 16 horses…
1776 – US Congress proclaims the Department of Independence and independence from Britain. 1796 – 1st Independence Day celebration is held. 1803 – The Louisiana…
1775 – George Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1891 – 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens…
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. 1776 – New Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a…
1847 – 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cents Franklin and 10 cents Washington, NYC. 1861 – 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington…
1834 – Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) 1896 – W.S. Hadaway patents electric stove. 1898 – Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known…
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners set the new tax rate at 58 cents per hundred. The Board of Directors of Bladen County Hospital welcomed…
1776 – Virginia state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor. 1863 – George Armstrong Custer, age 23, appointed Union Brigadier General. 1891 – US…
1776 – Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress. 1820 – Tomato is proven to be non-poisonous by Colonel Robert Gibbon eating…
1847 – New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires. 1893 – Great stock crash on NY stock exchange. 1929 – 1st color TV demo,…
1797 – Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, thought farmers fear effects of iron on soil. 1848 – 1st pure food law enacted in US.…
1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop. 1798 – US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens. 1868 – US…
1795 – US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty. 1853 – US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670…
1810 – John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company in Astoria, Oregon. 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes patents the typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard.…
Fisher Field, the airport in Elizabethtown, was celebrating it’s 40th year in business. The Bladen Journal Father of the Year in Bladen County was W.M.”Bud”…
1775 – 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000) 1807 – British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812. 1847 – First ring doughnut…
1768 – 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer from the College of Philadelphia. 1834 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus…
1782 – Congress approves Great Seal of the United States of America and the bald eagle as its symbol. 1819 – 320 ton Savannah becomes…
1778 – Washington’s troops finally leave Valley Forge. 1875 – Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco. 1897 – Wee Willie…