Katharine Lee Bates (1859 – 1929) a poet and professor at
Wellesley College, is best known as the author of "America
the Beautiful," which she wrote after a trip to the summer
of Pike’s Peak in 1893.

The first two stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service
featured Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.

The United States Postal Service issued its first-ever postage
stamps on this day in history.

The first postage stamps produced by the United States Postal
Service (USPS) were sold in New York City, according to the
USPS website.

The two stamps came in two designs and sold for five cents
and 10 cents. (FOX NEWS)

Sir Rowland Hill is a British inventor credited with inventing
the first postage stamp.

(FOX NEWS) – An intimate testament to love and to home
written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was
sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday.

A "friendship album" compiled by 19-year-old bride-to-be
Ellen Maria Brackett of Quincy, Massachusetts.

Paintings of former President John Adams, right, and his
wife Abigail Adams, are displayed at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

The last Thunderbird, Ford Motor Company’s iconic sports car,
emerged from a Ford factory in Wixom, Michigan on July 1, 2005.