I take great pride in where I live. A lot of historic things have happened where I live.

I live less than a mile from George Washington's boyhood home. Where my house is is named after his farm Ferry Farm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferry_Farm

There are a ton of stuff near me too like Robert E Lee's boyhood home and stuff like that. There are so much history where I live. The biggest thing though is the Battle of Fredericksburg during the Civil War happened here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg

what is you town known for?

A covered bridge, and it's zip code 44444.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohtrumbu/photo/images/coveredbridge.jpg

uh, nothing. OH. trent reznor of NIN is from my town. mercer. the smalllllllll small town.
the french and indian war was fought in my town! part of it anyway

uh, nothing. OH. trent reznor of NIN is from my town. mercer. the smalllllllll small town.
the french and indian war was fought in my town! part of it anyway

Didn't mercer once have an 18 year old mayor?

Pittston/West Pittston is a small town but we are known as the tomato capital of the world...hmm maybe that's why I love ketchup! :lol:

Rome, NY lozl kkk

Uhh, Erie Canal Village Place

lots of war history and battle sites and stuff, Ft. Stanwix etc

Woodstock 99

Francis Bellamy who wrote the "Pledge of Allegience" lived here and is buried here

Alex Haley, who wrote "Roots" lived here

According to "The Encyclopedia of New York," in 1871, Prof. C.C. Coe of Rome landed his hot air balloon in downtown Syracuse's Clinton Square -- a scene likely witnessed by L. Frank Baum, who would later write about a similar episode in his classic, "The Wizard of Oz."

During the Industrial Revolution, Rome gained the reputation as the “Copper City” as its metal industries produced an estimated 10% of all copper in the US.

John Dove who was instrumental in the development of the CD-Rom technology lived here before he died



Hooray for random facts from Rome's site loL! I didn't even know that, about the roots guy or the Wizard of Oz thing...interesting...

Didn't mercer once have an 18 year old mayor?

YES. chris portman. um, he sucks at life. i've known him personally all my life. but he randomly quit and ran off to arizona because he got his girlfriend pregnant. hm. says a lot about our town.

George Washington and his troops stayed here for a few winters during the revolutionary war. The first telegraph was also sent here and the steam engine was invented. So booyahhh.

George Washington and his troops stayed here for a few winters during the revolutionary war. The first telegraph was also sent here and the steam engine was invented. So booyahhh.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Salt N' Peppa live here. Once I was at Walmart and saw Peppa's son in the parking lot riding a bike with his afro. He supposively goes to my school, but I don't even remember what he looks like, so I don't know if I see him. My sister pointed him out at Walmart.

being crappy and hick-filled.

actually one of the battles of the revoluonary war was held here i think. well we have a battlefield and a museum anyway so im guessing...

Having a great police department.

being crappy and hick-filled.

actually one of the battles of the revoluonary war was held here i think. well we have a battlefield and a museum anyway so im guessing...
where do you live, joe?

Kennedy Space Center

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

Oh, I forgot to mention that Salt N' Peppa live here. Once I was at Walmart and saw Peppa's son in the parking lot riding a bike with his afro. He supposively goes to my school, but I don't even remember what he looks like, so I don't know if I see him. My sister pointed him out at Walmart.


oooooh **** no!!! i love salnt n pepa...oh my god..where do u live i wanna meet them...

Mine is known around here for being a really big area for shopping.

...that's all. :lol:

Mine is right next to Belmont Racetrack. The odor is fantastic! puke:

absolutely nothing

It's called the "City of Fountains"
We have some of the worst roads in the nation.
Ed Asner and Maurice Green were born here.
The barbeque food and sauce is famous. :liplick:
Home of the Kansas Speedway.

I think that's about it. :D

Well. Let's see.

The show Prison Break is taped here at a prison that is shut down.

Adrianne Curry is from here. They filmed stuff here for My Fair Brady...When they were at her mom's house...that's right in my neighborhood. I drive by it every day. (They also showed my school ((which she dropped out of)) and she said, "That's the bush I used to smoke pot behind.") Her and Christopher Knight are getting married here soon.

Anthony Rapp, from Rent, went to my school.

Andy Dick went to my school.

We're famous for our prisons, pretty much. Parts of the movie The Blues Brothers was taped at one.

We're home of America's oldest public community college.

Robert Novak, the guy who started the whole Valerie Plame fiasco, is from here. He went to school with my grandpa.

The Chicagoland Speedway is here..

Lewis & Clark trotted through my city in 1804 and it was around this area that they met up with Sakakawea before they trotted off to finish their exploration. We have L&C reenactions all the time, every year. We also set the first Guinness world record here in 2002 and I took part in it. :D Unfortunately, it has since long been broken, but the record made it into the 2004 edition.

Angie Dickinson grew up near here, Lawrence Welk was born a few hours away from here and Josh Duhamel grew up in a town about 90 minutes from me. That's all I can think of.

- The 1994 Earthquake.
- Automobiles and freeways.
- Used to be known as "The Horse Capital of the World"

Nike

Well, not my town exactly, but Long Island is famous for breeding really good entertainers :) Billy Joel being one of them

Pittston/West Pittston is a small town but we are known as the tomato capital of the world...hmm maybe that's why I love ketchup! :lol:

ahaha youre from dirty pittston??? that suckssss..well im next door to the pizza capital of the world..yahooo lol

Pretty much just our football team, haha. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE in our town goes to all the football games, even the away ones. I think when my dad played played football, they won the state championship or something.

Also, our town has this test track with all these tanks. I remember a lot of people telling me that we sent tanks to help people out in World War II or something.

My town is the hometown of. . .

JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO!

:eek2:

I'm so embarassed. . . . ohno:

The Kennedys. Boston is renowned for education and medicine. Harvard, Tufts University....and people travel here for major surgeries.

The Kennedys. Boston is renowned for education and medicine. Harvard, Tufts University....and people travel here for major surgeries.

Don't forget "The Big Dig" (http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/index.html)

Don't forget "The Big Dig" (http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/index.html)
:lol: How could I forget. I think I'm trying to forget.

:lol: How could I forget. I think I'm trying to forget.

I watched a whole special on that on Discovery. It was interesting.

ahaha youre from dirty pittston??? that suckssss..well im next door to the pizza capital of the world..yahooo lol

Dirty Pittston? :lol: I never really heard it referred to as that. I am from West Pittston though. I do go over my grandma's alot and she's in Pittston so I'm from both I guess :D

our 18 year old ex-mayor:

takes office:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1740555.stm

reigns, hahah:
http://www.kmov.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nationprint/010205ccjrcwnatpittsburghmayor.6fcf160b.html

our 18 year old ex-mayor:

takes office:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1740555.stm

reigns, hahah:
http://www.kmov.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nationprint/010205ccjrcwnatpittsburghmayor.6fcf160b.html

Wow I didn't realize Mercer was smaller than here.

Wow I didn't realize Mercer was smaller than here.
believe me, we're smaller than anywhere.

believe me, we're smaller than anywhere.

Well not much smaller than here. About half.

My town is not known for anything, it's not very big and it's considered a village ;)

Beaches, Beaches, Beaches. The first pic is the Alaska Airlines Flight 262 Memorial at our beach. The plane crashed out in sea in 2000, right off our beach. The other pics are one of our harbors. We are also famous for MY BELOVED DALLAS COWBOYS!!!!!! THEY PRACTICE HERE IN THE SUMMERTIME!!!!!!!!!

DALLAS COWBOYS TRAINING CAMP HERE IN MY CITY!!!!!

Dallas Cowboys Training Camp

River Ridge Field
Ventura Road & Vineyard Avenue
Adjacent to the Residence Inn by Marriott
2101 West Vineyard Ave.
Oxnard, CA 93036
More info from Oxnard Convention and Visitors Bureau - 800 269.6273

PARKING:
River Ridge Fields $5.00 per car
Open 7:30 am - 6:00 pm on training days.

No pets are allowed

Oxnard hosts the annual Dallas Cowboys Training Camp every year from late July to late August. The Cowboys usually schedule two a day workouts. The morning practice begins at 9 am and the afternoon practice begins at 3 pm. All practices are open to the general public, free of charge. There is plenty of parking space available at the practice facility. Some bleacher seating will be available.

The remains of a Mastodon was found in 1985, and Grandville's football team won the state championship my senior year.

My town is known for absolutely nothing. This town is so small we don't even have a zipcode, we use the town's next to ours. We also had to go to that town's high school, have to go shopping in their town seeing as we have no stores, and everytime you go anywhere you basically see the same exact people every day.

Woodland is exactly what the name says, wood land. That, houses, and farms. You can't walk down the street without having to experience the horrible smell of cow poop. A Cow actually got loose once and came down here and looked in my window...Scared the crap out of me.

I'm moving to Los Angeles later this year, So it'll be cool to live in a big City for once. :D

Having more per capita morons than anyone else.

-The Wright Brothers were born and created the airplane here ( it was later succesfully tested at Kittyhawk )

- Thomas Alva Edison was born here

-Agnes Moorehead (Endora on Bewitched ) is buried 5 minutes from my house

-Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Jonathan Winters, Gordan Jump, Erma Bombeck as well as many Olympians are from here.

-The Breeders ( one of the coolest bands ever ) came from here

-The cash register was invented here

-Dave Chapelle is from very near here and his wife and kids still live on the his families farm....so he's here often

-Coretta Scott King went to college ( Antioch College ) very near here at he same college where Rod Serling dreamt up and wrote the Twilight Zone series

-a few funk bands came from here

-The peace talks with Milosevic was held here

- Wright Patterson Airforce base is here, which is were they took the wreckage from the Roswell UFO crash.....rumor has it that actually have a few Aliens there...who knows! )

- We made it into Rolling Stone magazine for being the best rock ' n roll city just because we have more Taco Bells per capita :lol:

I dunno, we have so much history here is hard to think of everything!

A Cow actually got loose once and came down here and looked in my window...Scared the crap out of me.

OMG!

My town is known for absolutely nothing. This town is so small we don't even have a zipcode, we use the town's next to ours. We also had to go to that town's high school, have to go shopping in their town seeing as we have no stores, and everytime you go anywhere you basically see the same exact people every day.

Woodland is exactly what the name says, wood land. That, houses, and farms. You can't walk down the street without having to experience the horrible smell of cow poop. A Cow actually got loose once and came down here and looked in my window...Scared the crap out of me.

I'm moving to Los Angeles later this year, So it'll be cool to live in a big City for once. :D
OMG, i am sorry, but reading that part abt the cow just made me LMAO!!!!!

St. Marys, Ohio. Used to be a canal stop (Miami-Eerie CanaL). Now it is known for our football team...3 Time State Champs...Runner-Up a couple times.....big deal.

Shreveport, Louisiana
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shreveport, Louisiana is temporarily the second largest city and the third largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, USA. It is located in Caddo Parish, and as of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 200,145. As of 2004, the population given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 198,675. Bossier City lies across the Red River in Bossier Parish and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area population exceeds 390,000.

Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex, the area where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. Some call it the "Gateway to East Texas", others claim that Shreveport sits on the border between the South and the West. The city exercises a great pull over this region. A good example of this is that people in East Texas watch and donate money to the Louisiana Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) because no PBS station exists in northeast Texas. Many people in the community refer to the two cities of Shreveport and Bossier City, which are separated only by the Red River, as "Shreveport-Bossier". In fact, they share an af2 arena football team, the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings. The area is the intersection of three Interstate highways: I-20, I-49, I-220 (loop). Shreveport is also the proposed hub for I-69 (NAFTA Highway) connecting the area to Houston, Texas, and Memphis, Tennessee.

The town was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a development corporation established to start a town at the meeting point of the Red River and the Texas Trail. The Red River was cleared and made newly navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, who commanded the United States Army Corps of Engineers. An 180-mile (289 km) long raft of debris had previously clogged passage by Shreve's riverboat, the Heliopolis, that was specially designed to remove river debris. In his honor, the company and the village of Shreve Town were named. On March 20, 1839, the town was incorporated as "Shreveport," and in 1871 it became a city.

Shreveport was originally contained within the boundaries of a section of land sold to the company by the indigenous Caddo Indians in the year of 1835. In 1838 Caddo Parish was made out of Natchitoches (pronounced "NACK-a-dish") Parish and Shreve Town became the parish seat. Shreveport remains the parish seat of Caddo Parish today.

Originally, the town was as large as 64 city blocks divided by eight streets running west from the Red River, and eight streets running south from Cross Bayou, one of its tributaries. Today, the 64 block area is the city's central business district and is a National Register of Historic Places listed area.

Shreveport and Bossier City have six historic districts and a plethora of NR listed landmarks. Shreveport is second only to New Orleans among Louisiana cities with many historic landmarks. In particular, the McNeill Street Pumping Station, an 1887 waterworks that is still in use, is a unique example of its type. Also located near Shreveport is Barksdale Air Force Base, opened in 1944 as Barksdale Army Air Field. It came into national attention recently when President George W. Bush was taken there during the September 11, 2001 attacks. It also came into national attention when B-52 bombers based there participated in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their attacks on fixed hard targets and the famed Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division using state of the art JDAMs and other munitions marked a new era in U.S. air power where precision guided munitions were used more than "dumb" bombs with devastating effect (see Shock and Awe).

The Red River, opened by Shreve in the 1830s, remained navigable until 1914 when disuse, owing to the rise of the railroad as the preferred means of transporting goods and people, allowed it to begin silting up. Not until the 1990s was navigation of the river again possible to Shreveport. Today the port of Shreveport-Bossier City is being developed once again as a shipping center.

Shreveport was home to the Louisiana Hayride, a radio broadcast from the city's Municipal Auditorium that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 spawned the careers of the some of the greatest names in American music. The Hayride boasted names such as Hank Williams Sr. and Elvis Presley (who got his start at this venue).

I know I posted this before:

The city is famous for its ZIP Code, which is 44444. Newton Falls is also well known for its covered bridge, which is the only covered bridge in Ohio with an integrated covered walkway.

The city earned its name from the two sets of falls within the city, each on different branches of the Mahoning River.

How could I forget this??
http://1985tornado.tripod.com/Newton_Falls_OH/images/083_Downtown.jpg

On May 31, 1985, an F5 tornado struck the city as part of The U.S.-Canadian Outbreak, a deadly series of tornadoes that swept through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, Canada. The tornado to hit Newton Falls was the only F5 to hit Ohio that day. The tornado damaged most of the downtown area destroying dozens of homes, damaging the Senior and Junior High Schools (destroying the gymnasium and rendering the Junior High unusable), and devastating many businesses. Remarkably, no deaths were attributed to the tornado.

Here are some pics: http://1985tornado.tripod.com/Newton_Falls_OH/

Porn. No, seriously. The San Fernando Valley's got a huge porn industry.

From Wikipedia.org: The Valley is home to numerous companies, the most well-known of which are involved in motion pictures, recording, and television production (including CBS Studio Center, NBC-Universal, The Walt Disney Company (and its ABC television network), and Warner Bros.). The Valley was previously known for stellar advances in aerospace technology by companies such as Lockheed, Rocketdyne, and Marquardt which helped put man on the moon and armed the modern military. Most of these enterprises have since disappeared or moved on to regions with friendlier political climates.

The Valley is also home to a multi-billion dollar pornography industry earning the moniker "San Pornando Valley" or "Pornography Capital of the World". The leading trade paper for that field (AVN Magazine) is based in the Northwest Valley, as are a majority of the nation's adult video and magazine distributors. It is a legal business as the vast majority of the producers strictly comply with minimum age statutes.

Oh yeah- just what you'd want your town to be known for.

my hometown jackson michigan is known for being the birthplace of the republican party(for better or worse)
and one of the largest prisons in the united states the southern michigan correction institute(for better or worse).

you notice i'm not bragging:(

Piedmont, South Carolina
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Piedmont, SC)
Jump to: navigation, search
Piedmont is a census-designated place located in South Carolina, along the Saluda River. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 4,684.



wow... how freakin' special.

my hometown jackson michigan is known for being the birthplace of the republican party (for better or worse)


I thought the Republican Party - whose founding members included Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley - was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin. Anyway, Michigan and Wisconsin are both blue states now. :)

- We're the highest city in the States - 5280 ft. above sea level.
- Colfax Avenue in Denver is the longest continuous street in America.
- Denver has the largest city park system in the nation with 205 parks in City limits and 20,000 Acres of parks in the nearby mountains.
- Denver is ranked the thinnest city in America by the American Cancer Society.
- It resides 346 miles ( 557 km ) west of the exact center of the continental United States.
- And also since we're really high up, we have an extra pint of blood in our bodies than our lower land dwelling cousins. :D
- You get drunk a lot faster here than you can on the coasts because of the altitude as well.

that's about all I can remember right now.