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Warehouse. In the mid-1800s, various states set up geological survey institutions; e.g., the Kentucky Geological Survey, established in 1854.: 501  In 1879, a

America. It was established by an Act of Congress on 30 April 1798, at the urging of Secretary of War James McHenry, to provide a government organizational

health (which is a four-star office). John Maynard Woodworth (1837–1879, served 1871–1879), was the first holder of the office as "supervising surgeon." Insignia

Venereal Diseases was established in 1918, and the Narcotics Division in 1929 (it eventually became the National Institute of Mental Health). In 1930, the Hygienic

Enterprise Fund, established in 1995. Any profits made by the Fund in excess of operating requirements are returned to the Treasury. Government procurement

state and international agencies. The Toxicology and Environmental Health Program was established at the National Library of Medicine in 1967 and is charged

of 10 men in 1918, the stream watchman force—which operated in both Southeast and Southcentral Alaska—grew to 59 men in 1922 and 220 in 1931. In addition

day-to-day law enforcement in areas that had no local government of their own. U.S. Marshals were instrumental in keeping law and order in the "Old West" era.

areas in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east, and from the redwood and Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast

Colorado in the 1930s saw the last wild wolf in the state shot in 1945. A wolf pack recolonized Moffat County, Colorado in northwestern Colorado in 2019.

reside in a military organization or in the civilian part of the government, raising the broader issue of whether U.S. government scientific agencies of all

Colonies in the American Revolution, and helped establish the new national government. During the American Civil War, the state government in Richmond

membership. Agencies of the United States government fund about 85 percent of the academy's activities. Further funding comes from state governments, private

iron-mining industry was established with the discovery of iron in the Vermilion and Mesabi ranges in the 1880s, followed by the Cuyuna Range in the early 1900s

station began operations in Detroit, Michigan, in June 1924. A second station, in El Paso, Texas, began operations in July 1924. In 1925, coastal patrols

efforts in the late 1990s to construct a mosque in Anchorage. They broke ground on a building in south Anchorage in 2010 and were nearing completion in late

steam-powered vessels in the 19th century. In 1875, the first telephone exchange in the world was established in New Haven. When World War I broke out in 1914, Connecticut

was established in 1852. Massachusetts is home to the oldest school in continuous existence in North America (The Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645)

history in Washington, D.C., in the vicinity of the White House or in the U.S. Capitol Building. It first met in May 1855 at Willard's Hotel. In July of

largest. The Ojibwe Indians (also known as Chippewa in the U.S.), an Anishinaabe tribe, were established in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern and central