• Mayor Dan McNeill of Clarkton designated Clean Up-Fix Up Week in Clarkton. •...
History
• Clark-Shaw Ford moved to a new building located one mile west of Elizabethtown....
• The United Sister Savings Club of Elizabethtown donated $685 to the Elizabethtown Rescue...
• The Gray Moss Chapter of the ABWA announced a date for their annual...
*Mac Campbell, Jr., President of the Elizabethtown Jaycees, was chosen Vice President for the...
• The Elizabethtown Police Department announced that they captured three thieves that had stolen...
• Champion peanut growers were announced in Bladen County. First Place, Wade and Everett...
• The Bladen County Young Democrat Club was formed. The nominating committee consisted of...
1793 – 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted...
1835 – Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives...
By Cara Beth Lewis Harmony Hall is the 1760s-era home of Colonel James Richardson,...
N.C. Jaycee President Avery Nye Jr. paid the Elizabethtown Jaycees a visit. Cape Fear...
1799 – George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war,...
John Cross of Elizabethtown was named March of Dimes Campaign Chairman. Ray Cross represented...
1895 – 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper. 1919 – US...
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison...
1841 – Samuel Slocum patents the stapler. 1898 – City of New York established....
1789 – US War Department establishes a regular army. 1880 – 1st pro baseball...
1850 – US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment. 1892 – 1st night football game...
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City....
1804 – Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the...
1890 – The President of the Latter-Day Saints, Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising...
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest. 1845 –...
1862 – US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states...
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall,...
1877 – Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) 1893...
1796 – George Washington’s farewell address as US President is published. 1849 – 1st...
The Bladen County Board of Commissioners accepted bids totaling $73,526 for new equipment for...
1769 – John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st Spinet piano. 1851 – New...
1908 – Carriage maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan. 1919...
1789 – US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State. 1887 – Philadelphia...
1814 – Francis Scott Key pens the poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”, later known...
1881 – American Lewis Howard Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon...
1910 – United States’ 1st known female cop appointed, Alice Stebbins Wells by LAPD....
1885 – 1st newspaper cartoon strip. 1919 – US Marines again send troops to...
1776 – George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers. 1894 –...
1850 – Territories of New Mexico and Utah created, California is admitted as the...
1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You can fool all the...
1813 – “Uncle Sam” 1st used to refer to the US, by Troy Post,...
1869 – 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco. 1899 – Carnation processes its...
1774 – With the meeting of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia becomes the 1st capital...
By Cara Beth Lewis September 11th, 2021, is the 20th Anniversary of a painful...
1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC) 1894 – In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on...
1833 – New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1891 – Cotton pickers...
1789 – US Treasury Department established by Congress. 1897 – “McCal” magazine first published....
1859 – 1st Pullman sleeping car in service. 1862 – Federal tax levied on...
1837 – Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous “The American Scholar” speech to Phi...
1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection on meat...
1830 – 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton...
By Cara Beth Lewis Labor Day, observed on the first Monday in September, is...
1859 – 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1881...
1843 – American inventor Charles Thurber patents a typewriter. 1895 – Electric generator at...
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)...
1869 – 1st carload of rail freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco,...
Carlton Sligh of Elizabethtown was named Scouter of the Week by the Cape Fear...
1865 – William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap. 1901...
1841 – John Hampton patents venetian blind. 1897 – Oldsmobile first manufactured by Olds...
1865 – President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to “insurrection” in Texas. 1896 –...
1849 – NY Herald reports gold discovery in California. 1909 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway,...
1817 – 60-70 ft sea serpent sightings reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts. 1872 –...
1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River. 1891 –...
1858 – Britain’s Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for 1st time by...
1901 – Arch Rock, a danger to San Francisco Bay shipping, blasted with 30...
1846 – Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes. 1873 – “Field...
Here are some Bladen County headlines from 1971: Dr. Robert Summerlin of Dublin was...
1889 – William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut patents the coin-operated telephone. 1907 – 1st...
1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to...
1874 – Harry S. Parmelee patents sprinkler head. 1896 – Harvey Hubbell patents electric...
1833 – Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200. 1921 – FDR stricken...
1859 – Otis Tufts patents the first passenger elevator in the US. 1904 –...
1786 – US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the...
1782 – George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military...
Robert Hester and Charles DeVane of Elizabethtown were recognized as Outstanding Young Men of...
1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school...
1861 – President Lincoln signs the first US personal Income Tax into law (3%...
1821 – 1st edition of American magazine “The Saturday Evening Post” 1862 – US...
1882 – US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration. 1900 – Firestone Tire and...
1865 – Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland” 1909 – Army Air Corps...
1789 – US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act. 1901 – Burials within San Francisco...
1790 – 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. 1876...
The town of Tar Heel set their 1971-72 tax rate at 60 cents per...
1739 – Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey. 1879 – Staten...
1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end...
1858 – First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by...
1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the...
1847 – Moses Gerrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride. 1878...
1729 – North Carolina becomes a royal colony. 1866 – Ulysses S. Grant named...
1870 – 1st trans-US-Rail service begins. 1915 – Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake...
1829 – William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter). 1872 – African American...
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado. 1921 – US...
1865 – In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills...
1868 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes. 1890 – Snow and hail...
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by...
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in NYC. 1914 – US army...
1775 – 1st military hospital approved. 1861 – U.S. Congress authorizes paper money. 1922...
The Elizabethtown Board of Commissioners set the tax rate for 1971-72 at $1.57. The...
1867 – D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready-mixed paint. 1902 – John McGraw officially...
1912 – American athlete Jim Thorpe is placed in top 4 in all 10...
1798 – US Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against government. 1850...