Texas Firsts

Texas' first town has a rich history that includes the state's introduction to forward-thinking technological innovations, including:

• First Ceiling Fans In a downtown drugstore, fan blades turned by a mule drawn treadmill outside
• First Oil Well Drilled in 1866 in Nacogdoches County
• First Oil Field Located near Oil Springs in Nacogdoches County
• First Pipeline Delivered oil from well sites to storage tanks
• First Steel Storage Tanks Oil Springs in Nacogdoches County
• First Two-Story Building Old Stone House, circa 1779
• First Newspaper Set type in 1813
• First Wine Cellar Found in the Sterne-Hoya Home
• First District Court Session Held in the Old Stone Fort