Texas' first town has a rich history that includes the state's introduction to forward-thinking technological innovations, including:
- First Ceiling Fans In a downtown drugstore, fan blades turned by a mule drawn treadmill outside
- First Oil Well Drilled in 1866 in Nacogdoches County
- First Oil Field Located near Oil Springs in Nacogdoches County
- First Pipeline Delivered oil from well sites to storage tanks
- First Steel Storage Tanks Oil Springs in Nacogdoches County
- First Two-Story Building Old Stone House, circa 1779
- First Newspaper Set type in 1813
- First Wine Cellar Found in the Sterne-Hoya Home
- First District Court Session Held in the Old Stone Fort