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* First Capital of the 13th colony and later of Georgia, 1733
* First city planned on an extensive system of squares in North America, 1734
* First agricultural experimental garden in North America, 1733
* First Jewish Congregation in Georgia, 1733 (third oldest in the US) - The Torah used in worship services is written on deer skin, originated in England in 1733.
***Congregation Mickve Israel, consecrated in 1878, remains the only Gothic Revival synagogue in the US.***
* First silk exportation in North America, 1735
* First Moravian Church in North America, 1735
* Hymnal in Georgia, by John Wesley, 1736
* First lighthouse on the South Atlantic coast, 1736
* First horse race in Georgia, 1740
* First cattle exportation in Georgia, 1755
* First newspaper in the colony, the Georgia Gazette, 1763
* First Black Baptist congregation in the United States, 1788
* First public school in Georgia, 1788
* First practical cotton gin, Eli Whitney, 1793
* First steamship to cross an ocean, the S.S. Savannah, 1819
***1819 Painting by John Stobart showing the SS Savannah leaving Savannah Harbor.***
* First hospital for Negroes in the United States, Georgia Infirmary, 1832
* First commercially successful iron steamship, the S.S. John Randolph, 1834
* First use of rifled cannon in modern warfare, at Fort Pulaski, 1862
* First motorized fire department in the United States, 1911
* Girl Scout troop, founded by Juliette Gordon Low, 1912
*** Juliette Gordon Low's Birthplace and home. ***
* First nuclear powered merchant ship, the N.S. Savannah, 1962
* First garden for the blind in the Southeast, 1963
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