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