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Oh contraire- Montville is the site of an old colonial quarry for serpentine. The green carving stone was traded all over the Northeast and was sold as "verde antique". You can still find the old quarry pit on the north side of Lake Valhalla in the woods.....

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Bedminster, NJ...Home of the Trump National Golf Course

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Merrimack, NH. Named after the Merrimack River which is "Flowing Water" or something like that in a native tribe's language.

Adam Sandler's science teacher teaches at the highschool, and apparently he wrote a song about her (Mrs. K ring a bell to anyone?). I have never heard of this song, nor did I know that Adam Sandler wrote songs.

Mathew Thornton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independance, lived here and one of the elementary schools is named after him.

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Atlanta Georgia
Has a sports team in all major American sports
largest aquarium
world of coke exhibit
largest mall in the southeast
host of FIRST championships
Olympics in 1996
too much more to mention

My specific area of atlanta
Kennesaw/Marietta
Marietta is the sister city of Linz Germany or something like that
We have a 40 foot tall motorized chickn called the big chicken at a KFC restaurant and is our main landmark
In Kennesaw you must owna gun if you own property here.
I can see a national battlefield from my house (Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield and Park)
Famous people...
Shareef Abdur Rahim (NBA)... A lot more

Jemario Davidson (Alabama Univ. Basketball)
Sharad Curry (NCAA rookie of the week this year, basketball, Providence)
#25 basketball team in the nation (dropped from 6)
second hardest baseball division in the country (HS)
Home of Reggie Witherspoon, one of the fastst NCAA runners in history, still breaking records
Training place for Heinz Ward, Jamal Lewis, and Jevawn Kearse (they practice over summer at our school)
A lot more stuff

I was raised in Alabama
Hoover/Inverness area
Charles Barkley owned a summer house in our neighborhood and Michael Jordan rented it when he played for the minor league baseball team there, the Birmingham Barons...
So pretty much nothing

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rockledge, florida ummm oldest city in our county, we're just an hour away from orlando and my parents own a haunted restaurant that is somewhat known( I think, we're featured in a couple of books and depending on who you talk to we're nationally known)amonsted ghost hunter people that all i can think of

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From Wikipedia:
The Village of Milford began with the building of a sawmill by Elizur and Stanley Ruggles in 1832. Early county records indicate that the mill was erected in the "Township" at that time, and that formal organization would occur in 1834. That same year, the first grist mill was erected by Luman Fuller. In 1835, the first Post Office was established with Aaron Phelps as Postmaster.

The Lower Mill Pond was created in 1836 to provide waterpower for the various types of mills and factories. The Upper Mill Pond followed in 1845. In 1911, the Hubbell Pond was created by a dam built on the Huron River to generate electricity.

Waterpower made it possible for Milford to become one of the first communities to have electric lights, in 1892. A year later, telephone service was available in the Village. As a point of reference, nearby South Lyon did not have electric lights until 1932.

By 1939, Henry Ford built a carburetor plant and two hydroelectric stations intended to allow residents to maintain their agricultural work while working in the factories. The former carburetor plant was demolished in 2002. The Art Deco station still remains on the Pettibone Creek in the Village, and restoration work began in 2004.
/Wikipedia

F.W. Bacon, owner of the Peters Mill, bought the first automobile in town in October, 1900. He traveled all the way to Ohio to pick it up and apparently drove it home.

On July 9, 1910, H.M. Coulter broke all Milford records by driving home from Royal Oak in only one hour and thirty-five minutes. He met sixty-three autos during the drive.

The General Motors Corporation came to Milford Township in 1924 and selected for a testing area 1125 acres of land located west of Milford Village near the border that separates Livingston and Oakland Counties.
For more info, check http://www.milfordhistory.org/Histor...gnificance.htm

My house was built in 1861 as a Victorian Gothic and was originally owned by Edwin A. Tenny, a cabinet maker. Hard to believe I live in a 145 year old house. :ahh:

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Towanda, PA

- hometown of Nate Bump (Florida Marlins) and nearby Ethan Kilmer (Cincinnati Bengals?)
- Pilot Mansion, a major stop on the underground railroad
- French Asylum - where Marrie Antoinette was going to live and create a French Colony, however, she was captured on her journey to America and was decapitated.

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Canton, MI

-Named after the city of Canton in China*
-Home of the Plymouth - Canton Educational Park
-Home of Michigan's only Ikea.


*"Canton, like Nankin and Peking townships were named after cities in China due in part to the enhanced trade relations the United States had with China at that time. Additionally, Washington D.C. had decreed that all new townships had to use names not previously used by another post office. Today Canton is the only township of the three that uses its original name."
- Canton Historical Society Website

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Canton ROCKS! But I live in Ypsilanti, MI. (Y-Town)

Some quickies:
-Right next to Ann Arbor, MI, (home of the UoM) and if you live here in Ypsi, you will get a lot of interesting (to say the least) impressions of Ann Arbor residents...
-Home of the Great Lakes Regional
-Eastern Michigan University's home...
-Named after Demetrius Ypsilanti.
-Lots of trees, parks, whatnot.
-Incredibly diverse community.

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Sierra Vista, AZ.

First McDonald's Drive Thru

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Baltimore, MD = Crabs & Old Bay baby!

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Pat, you forgot the most important part about Milford...

They thought Jimmy Hoffa was here!

Oh yeah, and we have the most profitable Dairy Queen in the USA, even though it is a dirt parking lot with no set parking spaces and the only seating is outdoor picnic benches!

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Ah yes I did forget about Hoffa.
I didn't know that about the DQ.
And for the record, I don't remember saying "blah blah blah lots of history stuff" :p

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Isn't it great to come from a city that has nothing to look at but a bull?


GO BULL!!

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I hail from Los Altos Hills, Ca.

Our only claim to fame is our outrageous real estate pricing. The lowest property to sell in the last year was around 3 mil. In addition to this, we host the most strict developing laws in existence: 1 acre of property minimum, massive laws about house color/windows, limits from edge of property, one house per property, etc. There's also a strict no business rule: A friend and I had our lemonade stand shut down by a Los Altos Police officer when I was 8.

So yeah, aside from being insane, every house has a beautiful view of either San Fran, the ocean, or beautiful mountains.