SWEETWATER "FIRSTS"
Transcribed from First 100 Years Nolan County Texas
by Janie Healer Davis (ddjdsd@sbcglobal.net) 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)
 
First house built of lumber Saloon
(by R. West Starr)
(third lot sold in Sweetwater)
 
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