Why is the area where you live/your town so special?

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i live in the home of the Banana- Split.
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I live on Isle la Motte, a small island whose size is about 7 miles by 2 miles. The island is in the middle of Lake Champlain which is on the northwestern most corner of Vermont. Isle la Motte has 450 year round residents but has many more summer residents (perhaps as many as 5000). We have a shrine to St Anne (Mary's mother) on the island which is run by the Edmonite Brothers. There is a beautiful little chapel there as well as the shrine, picnic areas and a small beach.

Isle la Motte also has an ancient reef with fossiles from 480 million years ago (or so they say). It is part of the Great Chazy Reef that was just declared a national preserve a few weeks ago. Here is a web site with some great pictures and information that tell about Isle la Motte and our reef, which is the oldest in the world
http://www.ilmpt.org/chazy.html. The reef on Isle la Motte can be toured and fossiles can be seen right on the ground there. When I was a child, the whole exposed reef area was a huge cow pasture. Boy times have changed. Now there is a walking trail and a small museum exhibit there.

We also played a part in more recient history. Isle la Motte was the first place that Samuel De Champlain landed when he entered Lake Champlain (named for him) in 1609. There was also a Fort here that was built in 1666 by the French. The island was named after the builder of this fort. There has been a European settlement on the island since the 17th century. We also played a part in the American Revolution and the French and Indian war. Musket balls and other metal items can be found behind St Annes Shrine and by our light house with metal detectors.

We have 2 marble quaries that quary black marble. One, Fisk Quary, is no longer in use and has been designated a preserve, and the other, which still produces marble during the spring, summer, and fall. Isle la Motte marble can be found in our nations Capital Building and the National Gallary of Art. This web site gives more historical information regarding Isle la Motte http://www.islelamotte.us/

Isle la Motte is a quiet place to live. It is off the beaten path with only one small causway bridge to get on and off the island. It is easy to forget the world here, as long s you dont turn on the TV.
 
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The closest town that I live to has United States' first biomass powerplant; Fibrominn, (all the townspeople are turning into zombies as we speak) is the hometown of Shakers vodka.
Yahoo Mountain Dew (original version of Pepsi's Mt. Dew) is originally from here.
Oh, and the local area's school discrict/s has also been known as Minnesota's worst since the late 1800's (there was several until the mid early 1900's).
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Oh I love traveling Staunton!! It's the birth place of President Wilson and we have gone there for Red Lobster, the Buck Horn Inn and Cracker Barrel before we had some in WV! Beautiful drive!!
 
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I don't think there is much history here, but we have some famous people raised here- John Glover, Linda Hamilton ( The Terminator), Some boxer guy named Fernando something or other, and , of course, this guy:
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I happen to live right down the road from the original farm, where Arthur and Pearl Purdue raised their backyard chickens. And their son Frank came into the business and made it what it is today. The house is still there, as are the chicken houses.
 
Let's see,

We were the capital of Oregon for 1 day.

Brad Bird is from here (Iron Giant and the Incredibles)

John Kraukaur (author) is from here

Linus Pauling is an OSU alumni - he won multiple Nobel Prizes

This year it has been rated as the Best Green City in the nation by Country Home magazine.

Designated a "Bike Friendly City" by Bike USA and is ranked ninth in the nation with the highest proportion of people who ride a bike to work.

For the second straight year, Corvallis remains the most secure small town in the United States, according to the fifth annual Farmers Insurance Group of Companies study.

Plus, SilkieChicken and FrenchHen live here!
 
My city is special because we have a drug and prostitution problem, have demoted and cut our police and fire dept back and are now going to be shutting off street lights within the city.
Oh and we have the highest utility rates in the state. No business's want to be here and people are bailing left and right when they get a chance.
And the dog officer, who works part time, gets paid 50,000 a year!

But my having 5 chickens in my back yard is a "bad" and "illegal"

Used to be that the claim to fame in this are was "Johnny Appleseed is from here. Whoopie Doo!! And we have a bike race every July 4th weekend that makes it so you cant get out of the city because they have the roads blocked off.
 
It's not, except perhaps for the geological features like the fact that Glacial Lake Montana ripped through here at one time rolling boulders the size of vehicles onto flat plains. Otherwise, I consider Spokane like "The Hotel California" or some sort of black hole where you go and then find you cannot leave.
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We live in a rural farming area in between 4 different small towns...
it is 10-15 minutes in each direction to some rather charming "old timey" towns...

One is Ludington MI, large enough (Built up over the last 5 years) to have pretty much anything you may need---from Walmart & Meijers (like a Walmart- but not so corporate) to restraunts & theaters... and rated as one of the top 5 places IN THE WORLD to see a sunset in 2006!!!!

Also- 2 of the 4 towns are popular Tourist spots--with the typical shops, marinas, beaches, campgrounds, national forests, nature reserves etc...

We live where acres separate each home/farm, yet the road is paved & maintained, and only 1/4 mile from the highway....
It is QUIET and PRIVATE.. yet easy to find, and not "desolate".

And we are only 40 minutes from Muskegon and less than an hour from Grand Rapids (what we now consider "big cities" LMAO!!!!)

A BIG difference from Lansing, where I grew up and lived until we moved here 15 years ago!
 
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