Did you know this about American History?

• The oldest American city is Santa Fe founded in 1610.
• Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic.
• President Jefferson introduced “french fries” to America.
• President Hoover was the first president to have a telephone installed in the White House.
• President McKinley was the first president to ride a car.
• The artist who sculpted the faces of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T. Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore was called Gutzon Borglum. 
• Injun Joe, the evil character in “Tom Sawyer”, did not die in the cave but lived to the ripe old age of 102? He was in real life called Joe Douglas.
• Samuel Morse, who invented Morse Code, was originally a painter who turned to science just like Leonardo da Vinci.
• William H Harrison, the 9^th president of the US, who died in 1841 after only 30 days in office, was at 68 the oldest president before Ronald Reagan.
• Benjamin Harrison, the 23^rd president from 1889-93, was his grandson.