1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony. 1701 – Collegiate...
History
1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government. 1840 – First Hawaiian constitution...
1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course. 1765 – Stamp Act...
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock. 1866 – 1st train robbery in US...
1862 – Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas. 1875 – Palace Hotel on Market Street...
1636 – In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony’s 1st law drafted. 1648 – Peter Stuyvesant...
1789 – Washington proclaims first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26. 1849 – American...
1789 – George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of...
1851 – 1st Hawaiian stamps issued. 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850...
1659 – Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe) 1841 – Samuel Slocum...
1789 – US War Department established a regular army. 1849 – 1s passenger train...
1542 – Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay, naming it...
1779 – John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain. 1852 –...
1772 – New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine. 1789 –...
1493 – Christopher Columbus embarks on his 2nd expedition to the New World, setting...
Bladen County Hospital announced that they were changing room rates. Bladen County building permits...
1773 – Benjamin Franklin publishes a hoax letter “An Edict by the King of...
1776 – Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested. 1837 – Charles...
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1789 – 1st...
1691 – Massachusetts Bay Colony granted new charter. 1787 – The US Constitution is...
1630 – Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston. 1782 – Great...
1683 – Germantown, Pennsylvania, founded by 13 immigrant families. 1789 – US Department of...
1716 – 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor) 1814 – Francis Scott...
1788 – NY City becomes 1st capital of US. 1789 – 1st loan to...
1787 – American statesman George Mason suggests the addition of a Bill of Rights...
1773 – Benjamin Franklin writes “there never was a good war or bad peace”...
1608 – John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Virginia. 1776 – George...
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1753 – 1st steam engine arrives in north American colonies. 1776 – Congress officially...
Breece Horton was Elizabethtown Jaycee of the Month. Elizabethtown received a $744,250 Community Development...
1565 – 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida....
1630 – The City of Boston, Massachusetts is founded. 1813 – “Uncle Sam” 1st...
1620 – The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew...
1774 – Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo with Britain...
1781 – Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia...
1777 – Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time...
1789 – US Treasury Department established by Congress. 1859 – A solar super storm...
1799 – Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) 1807...
The Bladenboro Visual Arts Council is sorry to announce that the art exhibit planned...
There is a working meeting on Family History/Genealogy on the First and Third Friday...
1842 – Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine. 1886 – 1st major...
1682 – William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World. 1836 –...
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North...
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1609 -English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay. 1830 – 1st American...
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded...
Fleta Harrelson retired after 30 years with the Bladen County Extension Office. David Clark...
1829 – President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses....
1814 – British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)...
1796 – African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated. 1850 – 1st US National Women’s Rights...
1762 – 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury. 1848...
By Erin Smith A commemoration for the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Elizabethtown...
1831 – Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery. 1841 – John Hampton...
1781 – George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis. 1865...
The White Lake Airport closed after many years of operation. The Bladen County Dixie...
1735 – Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass) 1817 – 60-70 foot serpent sightings...
1590 – Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White returns from England to find...
1691 – Yorktown, Virginia founded. 1780 – British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of...
1635 – 1st recorded north American hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony. 1848 – M...
1608 – John Smith’s story of Jamestown’s first days submitted for publication. 1889 –...
1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to...
1866 – World’s 1st roller rink opens (Newport, Rhode Island) 1896 – Harvey Hubbell...
1622 – John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges receive a land patent of the Province...
1803 – 1st horses arrive in Hawaii. 1831 – 1st US steam engine train...
1786 – US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money. 1844 –...
1789 – US Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service. 1820 – 1st...
The Town of Elizabethtown will mark the 237th anniversary of the Battle of Elizabethtown...
1787 – Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begins debate on the first draft of the...
1846 – Oregon territory divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel. 1861 –...
1753 – George Washington becomes a master mason. 1821 – 1st edition of American...
1863 – Governor Seymour asks President Lincoln to suspend draft in NY. 1882 –...
The Mother County Genealogical Society will meet on Saturday August 11th from noon until 2...
1610 – Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay....
By Charlotte Smith The folks at Kinlaw Furniture are having a great celebration today,...
1789 – US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act. 1855 – Castle Clinton in NYC...
1777 – Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army. 1849 – Benjamin...
Currie, NC – Have you ever visited as historic site or event and wondered “How...
1619 – House of Burgesses, Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body. 1739 –...
Eight people were treated at Bladen County Hospital due to heat exhaustion. Bladen County...
1773 – 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio. 1847 – Cumberland...
1849 – Memmon is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of...
1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia. 1789 –...
1775 – US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.), in Philadelphia under...
1729 – North Carolina becomes a royal colony. 1854 – Walter Hunt is awarded...
1758 – George Washington elected to Virginia House of Burgesses representing Fredrick County. 1824...
1664 – 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston....
1587 – 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. 1796 –...
1669 – John Locke’s Constitution of English colony Carolina is approved. 1865 – In...
1861 – Confederate states’ congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia. 1868 – 1st...
1692 – 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem,...
1743 – 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal) 1864 – US...
1603 – Sir Walter Raleigh arrested by forces of King James. 1775 – 1st...
1755 – John Adams graduates Harvard. 1790 – Congress declares the city of Washington...
1863 – President Davis orders service duty for confederate army. 1870 – Georgia becomes last...
1798 – US Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against government. 1832...
1787 – US Ordinance of 1787 passed, establishes first organized US territory. 1835 –...
1774 – Citizens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, pass a symbolic declaration of independence. 1843 –...
1798 – US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress. 1804 – Vice...
1850 – Millard Fillmore sworn in as President of US (replacing Taylor) 1866 –...
1815 – 1st natural gas well in US is discovered. 1842 – Notary Stamp...