Cool facts about where you live

[alabamachick]

Dothan, AL - Peanut Capital of the Nation (World?)

 

[swampcat]

We had our very own farmboy turned serial killer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bruce_Ross

Yup... they don't call it the Quiet Corner for nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn,_Connecticut

 

[thekid]

http://fordcityborough.com/history.html some more stuff

 

[maple]

Quote:
aaah...he grew up on a chicken farm!

 

[Peaches Lee]

Well my town is quite small, with not a single red light. But it has one of the few or the only suspended intersection in the world. The film Unstoppable used this intersection in one of their scenes. There is also a munitions plant where they built ammo for WWII. Not too terribly exciting. The town is built along the Allegheny River, which has a lot of State record fish come out of it.

 

[jbowyer01]

If you blink you'll miss my town LOL

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²), of which, 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²) of it is land and 0.66% is water.

 

[calicokat]

Columbus, Indiana: ranked #6 in the US for Architecture Design by members of the American Institute of Architects:

1. Chicago
2. New York
3. San Francisco
4. Boston
5. Washington DC
6. Columbus, Indiana

This is going to be a fun thread

 

[hennyannie]

I live near the famed Lexington, N.C. Home of Lexington style BBQ.

 

[thekid]

and the Allegheny River that goes through FC is one of four in the world that has a gravel bottom!!

 

[Gardengirl 2011]

Ocala, Florida.

Known now as the Horse Capital of the World.

the Tarzan movies were made at Silver Springs

The "leftover" monkeys from those tarzan movies have become an issue for the springs to the point that they started to sterilize them to keep them from further breeding.

We have beautiful springs here. Alexander, Silver, and the Juniper. The Ocklawaha river flows NORTH.