Veitech's Market stood amid a series of local firsts and longstanding institutions in Norwalk, including the first post office in 1816, the arrival of first settler Platt Benedict in 1817, the Norwalk Reflector in 1830, Main Street paving in 1877, the Fisher Brothers Shop in 1880, Janseville Products in 1881, Citizens Banking Company in 1884, Tucker Abstract and Title in 1898, the first public library in 1905, Memorial Hospital in 1917, Norwalk Furniture Company in 1919, the first traffic signals in 1925, the first city airport in 1935, the Schine Movie Theatre in 1941, and the first parking meters in 1942.