Sioux City First

You might remember Sioux City’s first schoolteacher, or the name of the area’s first settler. But do you know the date of the first Thanksgiving? Or who had the first electric lightbulb? How about the dramatic results of the first mayoral election? Join Haley Aquire, Archival Records Clerk of the Sioux City Public Museum, to learn some of the firsts in Sioux City in the early months of 2026.