The soldiers remembered that South Carolina had been the first state to rebel and leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Yosemite became the first state park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

In 1965, California became the first state to name an official rock, a greenish or bluish mineral called serpentine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

So, for the first time in state history, the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield voted Friday to impeach the governor.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Samuel Clifton said she was the first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

This student from the state of Texas was the first place winner of last week's National Geographic Bee.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

One such program in the state of New Jersey is giving some young people their first experience with the world of work.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

He said that the First Amendment works by "building a wall of separation between church and state."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

He took part in some of the first movements of huge cattle herds from Texas to the railroads in the state of Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Later she helped gain passage of the first law against domestic violence in the state of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Yellowstone, in the western state of Wyoming, was not only the first national park in America.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

He was the first black deputy Secretary of State in the administration of President John F.Kennedy.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Doctor Venkataswamy established the first Aravind Eye Hospital in Tamil Nadu state with only eleven beds.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

One of his first jobs was with the company responsible for designing the Empire State Building.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

First on the list -- after the vice president -- was the secretary of state.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

At first,the study involved about five thousand people in the American state of Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Hawaiians accepted it, and on August twenty-first, President Eisenhower declared Hawaii the fiftieth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02