List of Birmingham firsts: Difference between revisions

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This list of Birmingham firsts is drawn from Bertha Bendall Norton's 1970 book Birmingham's First Magic Century: Were You There?:

First boy born in city: Richard Powell McAnally (November 11, 1871)
First girl born in city: Mamie Morrow (fall 1871)
First Birmingham Fire Department firefighters to die in the line of duty: Gip Spruiell and E. B. Huffman (July 3, 1905)

First "house": William Nabers shop, built in 1869 on what became 1st Avenue North
First grocery store: Allen's Grocery (present site of Empire Building)
First dry goods store: F. E. Taylor's Dry Goods (20th Street and 3rd Avenue North)
First hardware store: R. H. Roberts' (2nd Avenue North)
First drug store: 20th Street and 3rd Avenue North
First furniture store: 21st Street and 3rd Avenue North

First newspaper: Birmingham Sun (weekly in 1871, daily for a brief time in 1872)
First surviving daily newspaper: Birmingham Iron Age (1874)

Norton, Bertha Bendall (1970) Birmingham's First Magic Century: Were You There?. Birmingham: self-published/Lakeshore Press

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 * First voting place: [[21st Street North]] and [[2nd Alley North]]
 * First [[Jefferson County Courthouse]]: [[21st Street North|21st Street]] and [[3rd Avenue North]]
+* First [[Mayor of Birmingham]]: [[Robert Henley]], sworn in on [[December 19]], [[1871]]
 * First [[Birmingham City Hall]]: [[20th Street]], between [[1st Avenue North|1st]] and [[2nd Avenue North]]
 * First post office: [[19th Street North|19th Street]] and [[3rd Avenue North]]