The sawmill, which was the largest in the state, was an early economic center of the community.
It was an early center for aviation in the county.
But the state has long looked with skepticism at foreign wars, and it was an early center of opposition to the Vietnam war.
Brownsville developed as an early center of the steamboat-building industry in the 19th century.
Fort Lee was also an early center of the American movie industry.
An early center of coeducation, Bethany has admitted women since the 1880s.
New England was an early center of the industrial revolution.
Xàtiva is also known as an early European center of paper manufacture.
These early centers demonstrated that they were effective in increasing young people's access to care.
High Point was an early center for the development of the furniture industry in the South.