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Re: Your Hometown

I guess I forgot to mention what the Quad Cities actually is.

4 Cities, Davenport & Bettendorf, IA and Rock Island & Moline, IL

Some more boring info...

Home of the Rock Island Arsenal. There's something special about it but I don't remember what. Something to do with the Civil War.

Our sports teams achieve greatness their first couple of years and then flutter away. Our hockey team, the Quad City Mallards have won something like 6 UHL Championships in 8 years but now they are just a regular team. The local AF2 team, the Quad City Steamwheelers won their first two arenafootball2 bowls with a combined record of 39-1 but have only made the playoffs once since then. They were also on probation in their third year, when they could have probably won again but were prohibited from the playoffs. We had a good basketball team, the Quad City Thunder, but they are long since gone in 1996 I think was the last year. And, we have a local minor league baseball team. They are doing good this year, I guess. But they have changed their name at least 10 times since beginning in 19-earlysomethingorother.

Davenport has been featured on the Weather Channel many times for it's massive flooding. Even made Channel One in 2001 for the flood there. 1993 was the worst though.

And if you look on a map of the Mississippi, you can easily find the Quad Cities, it's where the river bends East and West.

Now, if I can think of anything more to add to this then I will. LOL.

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Originally Posted by Pat McCarthy

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

Ah yes, good old milford. Your also forgetting the fact that HOT is from there! haha. The jimmy hoffa thing was awesome. we made it onto AOL news! yessss

Weren't we a stop in the underground railroad? I'm pretty sure.... :confused:

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Originally Posted by Pat McCarthy

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:

Pfft
No it's not Pat
It smells funny and creaks like no other :p
Milford [Township] also has Pontiac Trail, the road, that was built on an old Native American trail.
There's also the Huron River, which I swear crosses the whole of MI
Of course you can't forget the age old 'Oakland County Panther'
Well, now there are coyotes... by my house at least... they ate one of my cats! :ahh::(

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Powhatan VA: It has a wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhata...ty%2C_Virginia

And thats about as famous as it gets, well the high school's football team a few years ago was undefeated but eh whatever

Oh and a NORAD underground installation, i guess they figured no one would look here

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Man goodrich has got you all beat. We have two BP gas stations across the street from each other. Nothing famous. Several good restaurants. :o It is nothing at all.

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In the weekly newsletter from the city I live in (Sterling Heights, MI):

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Sterling Heights named among best places to live in the nation

Sterling Heights is among the best cities in the nation in which to call home, according to Money Magazine's Top 100 Best Places to Live for 2006. The study examined 670 cities nationwide with populations between 50,000 and 300,000.

At 37 out of the top 100, Sterling Heights was the third highest ranked Michigan city among the five communities from the state to make Money Magazine's list.

The annual list is based on comparisons to national averages in areas such as housing prices, availability of cultural and leisure activities, job opportunities, crime rates, commute times, education levels, access to health care, air quality, and income levels.

Housing in Sterling Heights, for example, is more affordable than housing markets nationwide, with median home prices in the $186,000 range, compared to $259,000 nationally, according to Money Magazine. The study also said the risk of personal and property crime in Sterling Heights is lower than the average cited in the top 100 list, while the city scored much higher than most cities in terms of culture and leisure activities offered to residents in the form of movie theaters, restaurants, public golf courses, libraries, and sporting venues.

Finally, the median family income in Sterling Heights is $78,947, more than $2,000 higher than the national average, while residents in Sterling Heights have access to 13 colleges, universities, or professional colleges, compared to the national average of just eight.

Mayor Richard J. Notte said the study is reflective of Sterling Heights' efforts to establish itself as a clean, safe, livable community worthy of being called home by first time buyers, empty nesters, single folks, families, and retirees.

"It's always nice to see Sterling Heights recognized," Notte said. "We've dedicated ourselves for years now to making this city the kind of community that offers something for everyone, and studies like the one by Money Magazine prove that we have achieved that goal."

A similar study by Money Magazine recently revealed that Sterling Heights is one of the nation's fastest growing large cities, with a population now estimated at 128,000. For more information, contact Community Relations at (586) 446-CITY (2489).

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Suffield CT,

Rev. Sylvester Graham was born in Suffield and later invented the graham Cracker.

George Hendee bought a large piece of property in suffield after founding the Indian Motorcycle Company. His house in now being restored by the Friends of Hilltop Farm.

Suffield boasts two canals, one of which bypassed the Enfield rapids, to extend shipping through the Connecticut River north into Massachusetts.

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this isn't my home town but...

here's an interesting fact:
-Palm Beach County has more golf courses than any other county in the country

so 179 lives in swampy golf course ;)

but can't find much about Palm City, Florida...but in Martin County: Stuart.. Stuart is in southeast Florida about 12 miles northwest of Palm Beach, 100 miles north of Miami, and 100 miles south of Orlando. Our website, www.goodnature.org, has a place where you can order a map of the area. Our maps contain advertising from our members with a synopsis of the type of business that they have. There are detailed street maps of the entire county that are updated once per year with new roads and subdivisions.

We are unique because we are a community of only 140,000 people, and we are one of the smallest counties in the state of Florida. We have the most stringent, comprehensive land use management plan in the state of Florida, which means we don't allow over-population. There isn't one building in the county that is over four stories tall, and the beachfront is all open. We don't have skyscrapers and huge hotels or motels and things like that blocking the view of the ocean and the river. So we were very unique in that way. We don't allow wetlands mitigation which means a developer can't come in and either fill in or dig up our wetlands. I think that adds to the ambiance of our community most of the people like to come here and that's why we are so special.

which this is funny because we are really developing a lot right now. And so we are losing out wetlands.

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Ypsilanti, MI:

- Domino's Pizza originated here
- Once home of Iggy Pop
- Former home of Elijah McCoy (the Real McCoy)
- Area where many of the "Michigan Murders" occurred in the late '60s
- Home of Abe's Coney Island, professed by former President Bill Clinton as his favorite restaurant
- Host of an annual Elvis Festival
- Home of up-and coming metal band Bloodlined Calligraphy, who are using the city's name as the title of their next album

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Who could forget that the most popular Survivor player came from Kokomo. RUPERT!