| 1607 | | Sir Christopher Newport explored the James and Appomattox
Rivers along the Chesterfield borders five days before the Jamestown was settled |
| 1612 | | Tobacco
was first cultivated scientifically in America at Bermuda Hundred by John Rolfe. |
| 1614 | | Bermuda
Hundred was incorporated as the first town in America. |
| 1619 | | Falling
Creek was the site of the first iron furnace in the New World. |
| 1621 | | Falling
Creek was the site of the first lead mines in America. |
| 1622 | | Mount
Malady near Dutch Gap was the site of the first American hospital. |
| 1709 | | Midlothian
produced the first commercially mined coal in America. |
| 1795 | | Bosher's
Dam near Bon Air was the first large multipurpose dam in Virginia. |
| 1807 | | Midlothian
Turnpike was the first paved road in Virginia. |
| 1811 | | The
first commercial tramway in America, the predecessor of the railroads, was operated from the Brown, Page and Burr gunpowder
plant on Falling Creek to its storage magazine a mile away. |
| 1812 | | The
first school for deaf mutes in the United States was located at Cobbs on the lower Appomattox. |
| 1831 | | The
Midlothian to Manchester Railroad was the first inVirginia. |
| 1921 | | Father's
day was originated by three lady's from Drewry's Bluff. |
| 1934 | | The
first wayside park in Virginia featured the Old Stone Bridge over Falling Creek, completed in 1826. |
