Maxwell Courtney, a native of Tallahassee, is the first African-American undergraduate student admitted to Florida State University. Courtney was also the first African-American student to graduate from Florida State University.
Counties: As of 2013, the United States has 3,007 counties and 137 county equivalents for a total of 3,144 counties and county equivalents. Source: http://www.census.gov/popest/dat... According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 19,354 incorporated places in the United States.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, before which West Virginia was part of the state of Virginia.