1611 -- Citie of Henricus was established as the second permanent English settlement in the new world

1612 -- Tobacco was first cultivated in America at Bermuda Hundred

1614 - -Bermuda Hundred was the first incorporated town in America

1619 -- Falling Creek was the first iron furnace in the New World

1622 -- Mount Malady, near Dutch gap, was the site of the first American hospital

1709 -- Midlothian produced the first commercially mined coal in America

1807 -- Midlothian Turnpike was the first paved road in Virginia

1831 -- The Midlothian to Manchester Railroad was the first in Virginia