Undated9 cards: 4 firsts and 5 claimed firsts
- Bethlehem First Baptist, Tyler’s first Black Baptist congregationIt first met in the basement of the Smith County Courthouse.
- The Cotton Belt, called the first railroad to go all dieselSo says its Tyler-based president’s memoir.
- The Douglas Addition, the first with a park and curving streetsMost of it did not develop until the 1930s.
- McDonald Lorance, Tyler’s first mayorMcDonald Lorance served as Tyler’s first mayor.
- Budding roses on dog-rose stock, called a first for local nurserymenIt widened the varieties that could be grown.
- Gustavo Ramirez, as of 2019 the only Hispanic elected to the councilHis years on the council are not given.
- Ira Brown, called Tyler’s first Black policeman in a headlineKETK’s story itself called him one of the first.
- KLTV calls its founder the first woman to own and operate a TV stationThe station’s own words about Lucille Buford.
- Quincy Beavers, Smith County’s first Black judgeA justice of the peace for 28 years, until 2022.