Sesquicentennials by CoenM

What FRATERNAL AND AGRICULTURAL ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION, originally the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, was founded in 1867 out of the survey of southern farming by Oliver Kelley, one of the group's eight founders?

While it was originally composed in 1866, both the more well known orchestral version and a version with lyrics by Joseph Weyl of what WALTZ were first performed 150 years ago?

What US STATE joined the union 150 years ago, the only state admitted by override as President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill granting it statehood?

Queen's Park F.C., the oldest association football team in what FIFA AND UEFA MEMBER COUNTRY, was founded, and continues to play to this day as the only fully amateur club in the country's professional football league?

The Harvard University school teaching what SUBJECT - the first of its kind in the US and currently the smallest of Harvard's schools and colleges - celebrates its 150th anniversary this year?

The first volume of what THREE VOLUME POLITICAL-ECONOMIC WORK was published 150 years ago, the only volume published in its author's lifetime?

Now named the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, name EITHER CITY whose names originally graced this bridge that spans the Ohio River, at 1057 feel the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening?

What US STATE is also celebrating a sesquicentennial, not of statehood but for the signing of the Treaty of Cession and the eventual transfer from its original owner to the US?

While similar routes were used prior to 1867, the establishment of Joseph McCoy's stockyard in Abilene, Kansas is often seen as the establishment of what CATTLE DRIVE THOROUGHFARE named for the man whose wagon road through Oklahoma to Abilene makes up its northern part?

What BREWERY will celebrate its 150th this weekend at the Northern Wisconsin Fair Grounds, also located in Chippewa Falls, probably with copious amounts of its awful Summer Shandy?

What HBCU, named for its founder and third president, celebrrates its sesquicentennial this year with a theme of "The time is now," taken from a quote by James Baldwin?

What FASHION MAGAZINE celebrated its 150th with a gala at the Rainbow Room, where May 2017 cover subject Kendall Jenner flipped a switch to start a retrospective of iconic photos from the magazine projected onto the side of the Empire State Building?