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Did you know that Galveston is home to more than 50 firsts in Texas?
08/06/2012
Christine Hopkins
Galveston Island has an interesting history and is the site of many Texas’ firsts. Here are a few of these Texas' firsts.
- First customs house (1825)
- First post office (1836)
- First military company, now the Galveston Artillery Club (1841)
- First cotton compress (1842)
- First law firm west of the Mississippi River (1846)
- First insurance company (1854)
- First use of telegraph to send news dispatches (1854)
- First private bank (1854)
- First gas lights (1856)
- First real estate firm (1857)
- First opera house (1870)
- First cotton exchange (1872)
- First telephone (1878)
- First building built expressly for a newspaper (1884)
- First black high school (1885)
- First medical college (1886)
- First school for nurses (1894)
- First golf course (1898)
- First country club (1898)
- First ship through Panama Canal comes from Galveston (1913)
Facts courtesy of Bob’s Galveston Island Reader which was originally published in June 1983.
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