Cool facts about where you live

[eenie114]

I live about 45 minutes away from the home of sliced bread. I'm dead serious. Chillecothe, MO is the home of the bread slicing machine.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I live in a small town called Rothwell or Rowell. Its been here in one form or another for over 2000 years. Every year we have the Rowell Fair with proclamation on the monday after it starts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire/asop/kettering/rowell/proclamation.shtml

Its great to watch and the pubs open at 6am in the morning.

Here is some more of the history of the town

http://www.rothwelltown.co.uk/historyofrothwel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothwell,_Northamptonshire
http://www.rothwellholytrinity.co.uk/The Bone Crypt.htm

How many towns do you know that have something as cool as a bone crypt?

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Thanks for the link. I really enjoyed reading the information. You are VERY lucky to live on an alpaca ranch. I LOVE ALPACAS! I have been wanting a pair for years. I just can't find anyone locally to buy a pair from but I'm not giving up.

Thanks for sharing the link.

 

[goldfinches]

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I had no idea. I visited my best friend there a couple of times, it's a cute little town.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I had no idea. I visited my best friend there a couple of times, it's a cute little town.

Going back?

 

[Boyd]

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I had no idea. I visited my best friend there a couple of times, it's a cute little town.

They live in flint? Flint isn't a huge town like Detroit, Chicago or LA but it isn't little

The cute part... if you were in flint township/Grand Blanc area it is pretty enough.. but the city of flint is grimy, grungy, dirty. Lots of big buildings crumbling and coming down. Homeless and mentally ill folks walking up and down Saginaw St, MLK and Grand Traverse (where shelters and free clinics are), where kids not only know more about drugs than the parents.. they know where the varients were made..

Yeah.. Glad I live outside it, but still too close for comfort cuz one block away is........

 

[philter4]

I live in Placerville CA, part of the mother lode, an 11 mile stretch of the Sierra Nevada foothills that produces more gold than any other place on earth. Also a huge boom town because of the Placerville Toll Road, a hugely lucrative toll road that was put up along the route from Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe and brought supplies and labor over the pass in the mountains. As soon as the railroad came through and went from Sacramento to Reno the toll road died out and now is just a memory, but Highway 50 follows the same route as the toll road and is a beautiful drive along the South fork of the American river to the lake from Interstate 5.

Still these facts are not it's claim to fame, it is also the home to the Carrey Hotel, one of the top 10 haunted hotels in the western states and has the first working elevator west of the Mississippi river, and it still works, anyone visiting the area should stop by and take a ride on it. My favorite fact about Placerville is the old name of the town, Hang Town, it had a hanging judge and there were multiple hangings in the square every week. Until recently there was a life sized effigy of a hanging cowboy on the main street of town. About 3 years ago someone complained and they took him down, but the backlash against the removal and the complaints from the town was so great that he was put right back up after a little less then a month. Sadly, the building he was on has been condemned and is being demolished but when the construction is done and the building replaced he should again grace our main street for all visitors to see.