Things your hometown is famous for . . . .

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Is the Witch Hazel distillery still there too? I grew up in Middletown but my mom taught in East Hampton for over 30 years!!!
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Catawissa, Pa
Believed to be the oldest Halloween Parade in the state started in 1907 and still goes on today.

1833, the "Catawissa" a 15-ton locomotive, along with a sister engine called the "Comet" arrived from England. They were the first engines in the nation to carry coal

Catawasse indian tribe is where the name came from

Plus more recently our high school football team, Southern Columbia, was state champions 5 years in a row.
 
Our awesome high school band!!! (really!) And, a complete mastodon skeleton was found here in the 1800's, and is in a museum near here.
 
Fort Wayne, Indiana is famous for the first baseball game played under electric lights, birthplace of baking soda and the hometown of Carol Lombard and Filo T. Farnsworth the inventor of television.
 
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I live in jennings fla, its the population is 800,

If your comming the florida by the I 75 interstate , we are the first town you come through. Nothing here, feel free and stop by to gas up ur car lol.
 
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In a town of 800 people Lacy, everyone should know everyone's name and the names of their chickens...and what they had for supper...and who bought a new tv...lol!!!
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Well heres the thing, its funny beacause when you live in the woods and you hear a sering from a ambalance, firetruck, or police car, every hops in there cars and follows them.

Plus you can go anywere without seeing somboty you know. Even worse the town gossip. Ahhhh I get sick of hearing things about people that i know arent true. ahhhh

But the "pop" will grow in the next few years becasue they are putting a multi million $ horse track right down the road from us. Sadley I dont like tourist so maby we can move to somewere "not around gamblers, or mafias lol" ...

Well if your ever on the intersate come see me, or we can meet were everyone else meets "The shell station " lol
 

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