Baltimore, Maryland Firsts: 1810 to 1840

1811: First to import and package tea in America: Marin Gillet and Company.

1814: First printing of the Star Spangled Banner in the United States by Samuel Sands.

1815: First existing makers of silverware in this country: Samuel Kirk.

1815: First formal monument to George Washington in the U.S.: Mt. Vernon Place completed July 4, 1829.

1816: First U.S. manufacturer of gas: Rembrandt Peale.

1817: First gaslight company in country chartered.

1819: First agricultural publication in the U.S.: The American Farmer, John Skinner, editor.

1819: First Odd Fellows Lodge in America at Fell's Point by Thomas Wildery, father of Odd Fellowship in the U.S.

1821: First U.S. Catholic Cathedral: the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption.

1827: First public carrier railway in the U.S.: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

1828: First American umbrella factory in the U.S.

1829: First U.S. Negro religious order in America: Oblate Sisters of Providence, 5 St. Mary's Court.

1829: First ribbon from American silk in this country: National Silk Society.

1830: First railroad depot in the U.S.: Pratt and Poppleton Streets.

1831: First National Nominating Conventions for President in the U.S.

1838: First iron steamboat built in this country.

1839: First dental college in the world: Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.

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