Sixteen Things That Happened First in Virginia

I bet you didn’t know that the first street car was invented in Richmond in 1888, and Chapstick was invented in Lynchburg in the early 1880.



The first college fraternity began at William and Mary in 1776 with an emblem that looked oddly similar to the symbol for the Outer Banks,

And the nation’s first mental hospital opened in 1773 in Williamsburg.



We all know that our First President was born in Virginia in 1732.

See the full list of Virginia’s Firsts here.