Cool facts about where you live

[Boyd]

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and folks wonder why I walk around packing heat all the time

Oh, they caught the last serial killer/stabber .. Only took 14 victims till they figured out a sicko was on the prowl... Apparently cops were too busy with all the usual knifing, shootings and stabbings

 

[karlamaria]

I live in butte Montana, home of Evil Knievel , in fact had many a beer with him in my younger days. His wife went to my church. My sister babysat his daughter ( youngest ) He loved Butte and came often . He help Evil knives days here and we carry on this tradition today.
I live by this http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_697.html. 4 blocks away!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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OH MY!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Neither am I.

 

[Nicola]

The capital of Australia

 

[mandelyn]

- 3rd largest city in Ohio

- One of the largest historic districts in all the US and even rivals NY City, Vienna, and Munich in size and scope.

- Originally called Losantiville from four terms, each of a different language, meaning "the city opposite the mouth of the Licking River". Ville is French for "city", anti is Greek for "opposite", os is Latin for "mouth", and "L" was all that was included of "Licking River"

- Cincinnati accompanied its growth by paying men to act as its fire department in 1853, making the first full-time paid fire department in the United States. It was the first in the world to use steam fire engines.

Personal observations... Really awesome interstate system, if you're centrally located, you can be anywhere in about 20 minutes!

Chickens are LEGAL in the city and most of the outlying villages/mini-cities/townships. So long as you play by the rules anyways.

Several note worthy Hospitals, museums, ect.

Awesome skyline, every time I come home from the south and hit that hill and the skyline spreads out... big sigh of relief.

 

[chixie]

sour lake texas... it had a resort hotel where there was a natural spring... sam houston came to bath there after he was shot... the hotel and surounding area got sucked into a sink hole due to all the oil drilling...

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

I can't find it on the net but last year saw a documentary about them building US41 (Tamiami Trail) It showed the machine below dredging beside the dirt road and indian people standing around watching....it was very interesting to see Ft Myers before it even existed.
Isn't their clothing beautiful?

Before the Spanish arrived in 1513, the region in south Florida that is now the Everglades National Park was largely inhabited by the Calusa Indians. Emerging around 1000 B.C., the Calusa maintained a highly organized society, and left behind many traces of their civilization, including large scale architectural shell works, shell tools, carved wood, and long distance canoe trails. By the 1700s most of the Calusa population had been decimated by the incoming disease brought by settlers.

Early colonial settlers and land developers viewed the Everglades as a worthless swamp in need of reclamation. The dream of draining the swampland took hold in the first half of the 1800s. By the 1880s developers started digging drainage canals, which took place without an understanding of the dynamics of the ecosystem and were generally inadequate for the task. They caused localized silting problems, but overall the ecosystem was resilient enough to sustain itself.

 

[sgtmom52]

I live just outside of York, PA ~ 5.26 square miles ~ population 43,718 (in 2010) 14th largest city in PA

* Was the Capitol of the Continental Congress when the Articles of Confederation were drafted and adopted. Sometimes called "The First Capitol of the Unites States" as the the term "The United States of America" was first used when York was the temporary Capitol.

* During the American Civil War, York was the largest Northern town to be occupied by the Confederate army from June 28 - 30, 1863 before they marched on to nearby Gettysburg where they fought one of the most famous battles of the Civil War from July 1 - 3 (re-enactments are going on right now.)

* Home of the Pfaltzgraff Pottery Company (before they were bought out)

* Home of York Barbell Company

* Home of the York Peppermint Pattie (before they were bought out)

* Home of York International HVAC

* Has a large Harley Davidson Motorcycle manufacturing plant.

* Home to two major manufacturers of modern hydro-power water turbines, Voith Siemens Hydro and American Hydro, both of which manufacture enormous parts in their plants.

* Home of Stauffer Biscuit Company ~ making animal crackers and other items since 1871

* York is also a short distance from Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant.

* I worked as a Police Sergeant for 28 years in York, before retiring 3 years ago!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Bellefonte, PA: this city is 200 years older than the entire state of Oklahoma!!!

Oh! PA is called a "Commonwealth" instead of a "state" and there are townships, boroughs, villages....