1844 – The original date predicted by William Miller of Massachusetts for the return...
History
Cooperative Savings and Loan was offering IRA accounts paying 14.45% yearly. Kevin Ross and...
1628 – Massachusetts Bay Colony granted land by England. 1822 – Boston, Mass, incorporated...
1692 – First people are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts – Sarah Good,...
1755 – Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief. ...
1641 – General court declares Rhode Island a democracy & adopts new constitution. 1802...
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New...
1743 – 1st American town meeting (Boston’s Faneuil Hall) 1794 – Eli Whitney patents...
1664 – New Jersey becomes an English colony. 1775 – 1st steam engine in...
1665 – NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights. 1779 – US Army...
1791 – John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver. 1862 – US issues...
1562 – Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death). 1776 – Publication...
1817 – New York Stock Exchange is founded. 1884 – Susan B. Anthony addresses...
1644 – Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies. 1801 – Massachusetts enacts 1st...
There are reports of a fire at a pallet company in Bladenboro. Early morning...
Jerry’s Gun Shop and Western Auto, both of Elizabethtown, merged their businesses. Kelly Volunteer...
1646 – Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent. 1808 – 1st college...
1743 – 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston. 1750 – 1st...
1681 – English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole...
1634 – 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole). 1791 – 1st US...
1799 – Congress standardizes US weights & measures. 1819 – US passed its 1st...
1785 – Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized. 1790 – 1st US...
Pear and Plum trees are ‘plum’ beautiful. Today is the last day...
1646 – Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church. 1759 –...
1801 – Washington, DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction. 1813 – US Congress authorizes...
1732 – 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St. Joseph’s, Philadelphia. 1773...
1751 – 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent). 1791...
Basketball season is over for both Bladen County High Schools. Clinton boys 50, West Bladen...
1803 – US Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison) 1839...
1813 – 1st raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass. 1822 – Boston, Massachusetts,...
1630 – Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn. 1775 – 1st US joint stock company...
1792 – US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act. 1842 – 1st known sewing machine...
1792 – US postal service created, postage 6 cents – 12 cents depending on...
Celebrating differences is important to many. February being Black History Month gives us the...
Throughout the month of February, we honor African Americans by celebrating Black History Month....
Currie, NC – Moores Creek National Battlefield will host the annual commemoration of the...
1688 – Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa. 1850 –...
1741 – Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine begins publishing. 1838 – Kentucky passes law permitting...
1764 – St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclede....
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Bordeaux and Mr. and Mrs. Dannie B. Lewis celebrated...
1566 – St. Augustine, Florida, founded. 1693 – College of William and Mary opens...
For some of us NFL fans, seems it is a sudden stop following the Super...
1855 – Michigan State University was established. 1876 – Al Spalding opens his sporting...
1766 – Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia. 1794 – 1st session of US...
1855 – US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted...
1861 – Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent...
1735 – First Opera in North American colonies “Flora” opens in Charleston, SC. 1802...
1839 – Henry Clay declares in Senate “I had rather be right than president”...
1693 – Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va. 1815...
James Norman Moore of Clarkton was appointed Postmaster at Spring Lake. Collier Gas...
1789 – 1st US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams...
1690 – 1st paper money in America issued (Massachusetts Bay Colony) 1834 – Wake...
1653 – New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York) 1802 – 1st...
1788 – 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet. 1790...
1831 – General Robert E. Lee named Commander-In-Chief of Confederate Armies during US Civil...
1487 – Bell chimes invented. 1798 – Rep Mathew Lyon (VT) spits in face...
Elizabethtown Rescue Squad Chief Byron Graham received an appreciation plaque from the Elizabethtown-White Lake...
1785 – In a surprising announcement, John Hancock resigns as Governor of Massachusetts, allegedly...
1547 – 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England. 1754 –...
1785 – 1st US state university chartered, Athens, Georgia. 1880 – Thomas Edison patents...
1784 – Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America’s symbol. 1802 – Congress...
1799 – 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont. 1825 –...
To view more pictures from the celebration, click here. By: Erin Smith Arthur Bullock...
1789 – Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st...
Four candidates filed for the office of Bladen County Commissioner. They were Byron McNeill,...
1673 – Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated. 1850 – Alta California...
We have a new leader, President Donald Trump assumed the top spot yesterday during...
1677 – 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston. 1789 – 1st...
1788 – Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga. 1809 – 1st US...
1644 – Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America’s 1st UFO sighting. 1733 – 1st...
1871 – 1st cable car patented, by Andrew Smith Hallidie in the US (begins...
1777 – Vermont declares independence from New York. 1865 – Drunken sailor attacks munitions...
Sometimes in moments of uncertainty I look for something to lean on. I recently found the...
1699 – Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting “witches” 1794 – Dr....
1630 – Letters Patent issued to Plymouth Colony. 1794 – Congress changes US flag...
1773 – 1st US public museum established (Charleston, SC) 1812 – 1st cargo arrives in...
1759 – 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia. 1794 – Robert Forsythe, a...
1776 – “Common Sense” Pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published advocating American independence. 1840 –...
1784 – 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia. 1890 – W....
1754 – Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC) 1847 – Samuel Colt sells...
1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to...
The Bladen County Hospital Board signed a letter of intent for a management contract...
Interesting weather to begin a new year. 59 degrees at 6 AM today, high...
2016 is winding down, hours left before we ‘ring in’ 2017. I am looking...
1782 – 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston. 1813 –...
1732 – 1st known ad for “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (Pennsylvania Gazette) 1832 – John...
1845 – Ether 1st used in childbirth in US in Jefferson, Georgia. 1682...
The Town of Elizabethtown Commissioners approved making the Mayor’s term 4 years. Thieves...
1799 – George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war,...
East Bladen clinched the Four County Conference Baseball Championship with a 6-3 win over...
1 – 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus. 352 – 1st definite date...
1775 – Continental navy organized with 7 ships. 1807 – US Congress passes Embargo...
It is now official, winter has arrived, as of today. Leaves are scarce on...
Gordon Hester was retained as Chief of Police for the town of Dublin. The...
1686 – Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)...
1796 – 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor) 1799 – George...
Politics is a game for far to many elected officials, both parties and we...
1664 – English colonizing Connecticut. 1791 – 1st US law school established at University...
Bladen Seafood House was selling oysters in the shell for $13 a bushel. A...
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony...