| SENECAFALLS | New York site of the first women's rights convention, 1848: 2 wds. |
| UTICA | New York site of the first Woolworth five-and-dime |
| SENECA | ___ Falls Convention (first women's rights conference in the U.S.) |
| ROBERTAHENRIETTAJULL | First female doctor and founding member of the first women's college at the university? (7,9,4) |
| MARYSOMERVILLE | One of the first women's colleges of Oxford University was named after this Scots mathematician (4,10) |
| PAULGAUGUIN | Two Tahitian Women painter who was born in Paris on June 7 1848: 2 wds. |
| VANBUREN | Eighth US president (1837-1841) who unsuccessfully ran again in 1844 and 1848: 2 wds. |
| BENOIT | Runner Joan ___ Samuelson, who won gold in the first women's Olympic marathon, in 1984 |
| ELMIRA | New York site of Mark Twain's grave |
| BETHEL | New York site of Woodstock |
| TIMES | ____ Square, New York site where a ball descends a flagpole at New Year (5) |
| ELLIS | ___ Island (New York site where many immigrants were processed) |
| NIAGARAFALLS | NY site known as the "Honeymoon Capital of the world" (2) |
| SILVERSTONE | Site of the first race of the Formula One World Championship and the current home of the British Gra |
| BUNKERHILL | Site of the first major battle of the American Revolution in 1775: 2 wds. |
| ELSIE | Coronation Street character, ... Tanner or the name of Sydney's first women's refuge, established in |
| FORTSUMTER | The site of the first engagement of the American Civil War |
| CHAMONIX | Common or short name of a ski resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, site of the first Winter Olympics (8 |
| IRONAGE | Hallstatt was the site of the first European culture that typified this new period that succeeded the Bronze Age (4,3) |
| ALCATRAZ | Island in San Francisco Bay, site of the first lighthouse on the wt coast of the USA (8) |
