| SWEETWATER "FIRSTS" | |||||
| Transcribed from First 100 Years Nolan County Texas | |||||
| by Janie Healer Davis ([email protected]) 8/15/2005 | |||||
| DATE | |||||
| First post office | Sweetwater | 3/27/1879 | |||
| First railroad through Sweetwater | Texas & Pacific | 3/13/1881 | |||
| First train for any kind of service | 4/20/1881 | ||||
| First town lot sold | J.S.
Johnson (50x140 ft.-$100.00) |
5/30/1881 | |||
| First Masonic lodge | 9/09/1882 | ||||
| First newspaper | Sweetwater
Advance (owner, C.E. Gilbert; editor, A.J. Wilson) |
3/01/1882 | |||
| First public school | Fall 1882 | ||||
| First temperance movement | Conducted
by Thomas E. Douthit |
January, 1883 | |||
| First business | N.I.
Dulaney (opened a tent store) |
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| First house built of lumber | Saloon
(by R. West Starr) (third lot sold in Sweetwater) |
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| First bank | Trammell
Bank Building (capital stock $15,000.00) |
2/25/05 | |||
| First church house | Baptist | 1883 | |||
| First airplane to visit Sweetwater | A "barnstormer" | 1910 | |||