what history is at your place

Everywhere has some history, lets hear what everyones local history holds!

central alabama, where I am from is noted for:
civil Rights
Rosa Parks bus boycott, Dr.Kings sermons, the selma to mongomery march

music
Nat Cole born here, but no marker!
Hank Williams Sr, born near here, buried here and memorialized plenty
great speakeasy scene in the 20's & 30's had classic jazz artists Satchmo, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and others

Society
the house I live in was once home to a friend of Tallulah Bankhead, who often visited here

F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in a home a few blocks from me when he wrote Great Gatsby

Eight blocks from me is an historic theater that was the host venue for Francis Scott Key, Oscar Wilde, and John Wilkes Booth

 

...... mary anne was born here (gilligans island), gene rodenberry died here, spock photographed porn here, mccarthy admitted he was a liar here, bin ladens took off from our airport, an airplane crashed on virginia(main street) in 1985, virginia city is 45 miles (the long way) away, jim jones old fire engine now lives here, the once largest car collection in the world was pieced out and the remnant is based here, McCarren bigot mccarthyist and all around bad guy was governor of this state and has a highway named after him, this state is the number four producer of gold in the world, number one producer of gypsum, "goodbye god I'm going to beatty"

 

hmmm, i cant really think of much.
Bob Dylan was born here. Laura Ingles lived around here for awhile. the James-Younger gang robbed a bank and killed a person.

 

It used to be a swamp where I live. Then they drained it and built a subdivision in it. Whenever it rains hard and long enough, my backyard turns into a swamp.
The cycle of life.

 

I'm in the Detroit Suburbs, so lots of cool stuff here

-Obviously, most early history pertaining to the automobile
-'43 and '67 riots
-First electric traffic light in the USA (on Woodward Ave. which is about 300 yards from my house)
-First paved road in the USA (same road)
-Import city for 75% of the foreign-bought alcohol in the USA during Prohibition. They'd drive cars over the frozen Detroit River to Windsor, Canada to buy it, where breweries has sprung up like mushrooms. Obviously boats were used in warmer times
-Location of the largest Indian uprising in the USA, Pontiac's Rebellion. Seiged Detroit for months, though they failed to capture the fort.
-Musically, Eminem, Kid Rock, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, and of course, MOWTOWN.

 

hey, think of all the great cities that have been built on swamps! st. petersburg, mexico city, everything in florida! hehe new orleans....

where do you live?

was venice, italy built in a swamp?...

 

local history:

a loooong time ago there was a huge lake.. so we have the lubbock lake landmark, with lots of archeological digs going on... dinosaurs, tools, etc etc...

it's a pretty new town compared to most of the U.S.... i live in Lubbock, TX, west texas, no natural growing trees, used to be buffalo grass everywhere, then open range ranching took place up here with the cowboy drives and the longhorn cattle then came the closed in ranches.. yeah lots of ranching history... maybe i'll share the 6666 ranch story.. that's a cute one...

the Indians' last stand in texas took place a little bit north of here... not much here in Lubbock though.

buddy holly was born and raised here, and i think that blonde lead singer girl from the dixie chicks was raised here... umm... two of the ppl that died on the Columbia shuttle went to school here, one just went to Texas Tech University, and the other went to the highschool down the street from me lol... we have some claims to fame i guess

 

Well...?

 

I live in Plymouth, MA.

Apparently the pilgrims from England landed here in 1620. If go to the waterfront you can see "Plymouth Rock" which is soposedly the rock the pilgrims first stepped on or some bullshit...only morons and tourists belive that. You always here people say "Honey, we flew all the from Ohio to see a rock." It's like what the fuck did you expect?!

We have the plymouth plantation which is pretty cool, and is worth checking out. Peopleget paid to dress, act and live like it was 1620 and they take it so seriously lol.

Thanksgiving is a big to do here as this is where the first thanksgiving took place and there is always native americans protesting it because they're still pissed we took their land.

All around town there are banners and signs that say "America's hometown." But this place sucks and the pilgrims probably really landed way north of here.

 

Ehh... Honduras... way too much. Cortes, Mayas, Columbus, etc.

 

oooo! the james younger gang! jesse and frank james were born here, over in clay county, Missouri. the younger brothers were born out there too. they robbed a lot of banks here. out in independance was the uh...beginning of the move out west for a lot of people. cedric the entertainer, nelly, chingy were born here. this one guy that i can't remember, lives out in the country somewhere around here. we drove by his house one time. umm...there's gotta be more...missouri is kinda boring. except the whole civil war and stuff! that was great! i could tell u a lot about the james and younger boys' part int he war, but u'd probably get bored, so we'll leave it at that.

 

hehe ooooh alllright, since you insisted


there's a ranch nearby, really huge, that was actually won/lost in a poker game. long story short, one guy had a really good hand (can't remember what it was unfortunately) thought there was no way he could lose, so he bet his ranch, and lost it to the other guy who had four 6s.. and he named the ranch after his hand

 

we had this huge tornado run through plainfield and it left hundreds of people homeless.

 

Adopted town: Tacoma, WA

Birthplace of Ted Bundy, training grounds of Malvo.

The original terminus of the Western line before Seattle decided to build an "extension" to the railway line running North with promises of hookers and cheap booze.

Mars started in this town, which is also famous for Almond Roca and the Weird News item about a proposed hot tub ban during those power shortage days a few years back.

Accused of smelling vile but that's actually because of nearby Fife, WA which has the paper and pulp mills...

 

great stories there, some diverse history!

Oddly, Malvo and his buddy shot a local liqour store clerk here, someone I had bought bottles from at times.

 

Oh, well, ok..
I don't know where to start..
actually, my place, I mean my town, Mladá Boleslav, it isn't soo interesting here, but for example our capital city, Prague, is full of historic events.. I don't know .. so for example, it was a home of king Charles IV and many others.. then our republic is a born place of Smetana, Dvoøák, Janáèek.. as musical writers.. born of a director Forman, of a sportmen Jágr, Železný, Šlégr, Hašek..

I really don't know... coz I also guess that americans won't know about this a lot.. maybe europeans..

 

Only in Texas...

 

My home town of Huntington, IN: Also the hometown of Dan Quayle! YEEEHAW!


They gave him a museum.:$