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Plain and simple...

What sets your hometown apart from others? What's your town's claim to fame?

The Quad Cities... 4 Cities, 2 States.

Host the John Deere Classic.. which was held this past weekend ironically. This year's JDC boasts one not-so-funny, but memorable incident in PGA golf. Michelle Wie, the teen golfing phenom, suffered a heat stroke on the 2nd round. How amazing. She was 2 strokes away from making the cut at last years JDC but this year she didn't have a chance. She's fine BTW.

There's 2 UFC champions, Matt Hughes and Tim Silvia. But I've never seen a UFC fight.

John Deere headquarters...

Hm... so yeah... the QCA is a pretty boring place. Let's hear about your town now.

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Gustavus, OH. More cows than people. First centralized school in the United States. Several houses served as stations on the Underground Railroad. Clarence Darrow lived in an Octagon House the next township over. NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Dave Blaney went to my high school.

In Warren, OH, Team 48's home, notable residents have included Dave Grohl, Paul Warfield, Neil Armstrong (his first plane ride was in Warren), Korey Stringer, Catharine Bach (Daisy Duke was born in Warren??? Who knew???), and of course, Warren's most lovable personality, Maurice Clarett. We're all so proud.

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Glendale, CA has the second largest population of Armenians in the USA. (Los Angeles is first). Interesting fact.

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Corry Pa,
Lots of bars,
Lots of churches across the street from said bars.

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Vernon, CT The two most famous people from here are Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia, and Bill Romanowski, former pro football player.

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Meriden, CT

- Location chosen for the filming of Jacknife (1989 film staring Robert DeNiro)
- Known as the home of the first steamed cheeseburger
- Home of Hubbard Park, the largest municipal park in all of New England
- Home of the National Shaving & Barbershop Museum :eek:
- Known as the "silver city" during the 1800s due to the large amounts of silver products manufactured

That's about it I think...

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Henrietta, NY. The PGA was here during the blackout of 2003, and home to the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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Wow... some boring towns in the US. I forgot to mention we have the biggest truck stop just outside of town. I80 Truck Stop in Walcot.

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Sharon, CT -

There are more cows than people.
The regional high school covers 6 towns but has only 600 students.
Those 600 students are a glorious amalgamation of farmers and hippies. I am at neither end of the spectrum, but I am closer to the hippie end than the farmer end.
It is not unusual for the halls of my high school to smell like cow manure and gasoline, with a slight hint of patchouli (hippies).
Our senior prank consisted of letting sheep, horses and cows loose in senior courtyard.
Downtown Sharon consists of Trotta's grocery store, the pharmacy, the Country Corner Restaurant, and the Xtramart (where all the underage kids go to smoke).
My eighth grade graduating class had only 34 kids in it.
96% of my high school is white. I think there is a total of maybe 2 black kids in our whole entire school.
In summertime, Sharon's population explodes due to the influx of city people.
I laugh when I see people acting like Sharon is fashionable because it is so "cute and quaint".
If you are under the age of eighteen, and you are seen walking through downtown Sharon, you are given dirty looks by everyone driving by in their cars because they think you are up to no good.
The nearest shopping mall is an hour away.
I have to travel at least 20 minutes to visit most of my friends' houses (haha Kent kids).
Steel toed boots and cowboy hats are cool.
I can laugh at just about any redneck joke because I will know exactly what it means.

oh yeah, I forgot to add... my dad, my brothers, and I were all born in the same hospital.... in Sharon, CT. :)

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Kokomo, Indiana aka "City of Firsts"

Kokomo has quite the impressive list for a 50,000 pop. Midwest town:

"City of firsts" inventions
1894 - Elwood Haynes makes the first successful trial run of his "Horseless Carriage" on Pumpkinvine Pike.
1894 - The first Pneumatic Rubber Tire was invented by D.C. Spraker at the Kokomo Rubber Tire Company.
1895 - The first Aluminum Casting was developed by William "Billy" Johnson from the Ford and Donnelly Foundry.
1902 - The first Carburetor was invented by George Kingston.
1906 - The first Stellite Cobalt-Base Alloy was discovered by Elwood Haynes.
1912 - Stainless Steel was invented by Elwood Haynes as a response to his wife's desire for tableware that wouldn't tarnish.
1918 - The Howitzer Shell, used in World War I, was created by the Superior Machine Tool Company.
1918 - The first Aerial Bomb with Fins was first produced by the Liberty Pressed Metal Company.
1920 - The Mechanical Corn Picker was created by John Powell.
1926 - Carl Molin developed Dirilyte Golden Hued Tableware.
1928 - The first canned tomato juice was created by Walter Kemp from Kemp Brothers Canning Company in response to a physician's need for baby food.
1938 - The first Push-Button Car Radio was created at Delco Radio Division of General Motors Corporation.
1941 - Globe American Stove Company manufactured the first all metal life boats and rafts.
1947 - The first Signal Seeking Car Radio was created by the Delco Radio Division of General Motors.
1957 - Delco Radio Division of General Motors developed the first All Transistor Car Radio.

We are also home to this guy named "Big Ben" who was named the largest calf in the world in 1902.

I've also heard we have more restaurants per capita than most other cities in the United States.

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Team's home town - The Ford/Rouge blue-collar jobs

My Home town - Detroit - pretty self explanitory :D

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On paper, my hometown is Columbia, but I was really raised out in Irmo, which is just outside the city limits. (Literally--you can spit from Irmo to Columbia.)

Famous Irmese include:

-Andre Bauer, Lt. Governor of South Carolina
-Leeza Gibbons, TV host
-BJ McKie, who helped the Gamecocks to a few great basketball seasons in the late 1990s (and he was my first interview for Columbia's paper back in those days, when I was part of their Young Writers Staff)
-Lilian Garcia, ring announcer for WWE RAW

As a bonus, Irmo High has a few claims to fame itself:

-The Academic Quiz Team from 2000-01 and 2001-02 became the world's first and only back-to-back national champions, winning almost every national title available. (We're also the only three-time champion.)
-Irmo's band won something like 10 straight state titles
-Back in 1998, a wee scandal was touched off when the then-principal of the school cancelled an Indigo Girls concert planned for the gym.

To top it all off, Irmo is home to the annual Okra Strut, a celebration of all that is okra. (If you haven't had fried okra, you haven't lived.) Last year, 1293 marched in the parade. It was fun, until that one set screw came out of the drivetrain. ;)

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And Rockville, CT (the city within the township of Vernon) was also the home to the "Rockville Rocket", the late singer Gene Pitney.

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I really don't have a hometown as i move faster than the season changes, but currently I'm resided in Northern Virginia, suburbs of Washington DC.

I really don't have to explain whats Washington DC is known for, but Northern VA is known for being the Tech hub of USA and most of the world. 85% of the Internet information goes through Loudon and Fairfax County before it gets back to your house.

And yes we are also known for Krispy Kreme and people like Dave Lavery :p

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Reston, Virginia... a town created by Robert E. Simon (thus RES-ton). A large planned community of single family homes, townhouse clusters, apartments, condos, schools, churches, and businesses, and lots and lots of natural areas. Reston was the third town/city in the U.S. to become certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Backyard Habitat.

Reston... a very expensive, but nice place to live... nice, that is, if you can live with all the rules and regulations the Association throws at you... but Reston has a stain on it's pristine reputation... Anyone ever hear of the book, "The Hot Zone" ? Yep, Reston is where the monkey house was where Ebola broke out... Oh, but don't worry, that building is long gone and the last scattered bricks were removed in 2000 so that the children at the daycare center that is now there wouldn't trip over them...

Heidi

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North Brunswick, NJ:

Tim Howard went to our school. (Goalie for Manchester United / Back-Up for US team)

Other than that, mostly a boring town with some small, positive, quirks here and there. (Robotics :) ) We also have a large number of pizza places here (14), which is quite a lot for a town of 40,000 people. (Kind of crowded for an area of about 12 square miles.)

Calhounian's Request: We also have 9 Car dealerships [In this tiny town].

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Pontiac:

-We have had a couple of athletes come out of here that didn't get thrown out of their college and actually make something of them selves...Grant Mason(Pittsburgh steelers) and Lester Abrams(Michigan University basketball) and a couple others that i don't know their names but got sent to the NFL.
-We have 5 FIRST teams (65, 33, 47, 1, 68)
-In those FIRST teams we have 2 national championships, one national chairmans award, a crap load of regional wins, and 5 legendary teams that everyone knows.
-We hosted the World Cup along time ago...I don;t exactly know when but every time you come into Pontiac from Woodward there is a sign that that says "Pontiac where the World comes to play."
-oh yeah...and i was born and raised there...that is an accomplishment in its self..haha

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I'm originally from South Bend, IN.

NOTRE DAME!!

Go Irish! :)

(I know, I'm not supposed to say that since I currently live north of Ann Arbor).

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Milton, Ontario - the place where the Robertson screw (the square-headed screw, which enjoys immense popularity in Canada) was invented.

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Austin's official slogan is:
The Live Music Capital of the World

One of its unofficial mottos is:
Keep Austin Weird

It's a mix of cultures, politics, lobbyists, arts, parks, springs, state employment, technology -

My mother-in-law told me that she remembered when the main street, Congress, was a cattle drive up to and around the state capitol.

oops, sorry - forgot - Austin City Limits is based here.

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I was a young one then haha.
Oh and speaking of Texas...there is a town there that has my last name as its name...Alvarado, Tx...interesting fact yes i know haha.

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Here's a few more about Meriden, CT:

- Birthplace of Tomie dePaola, renowned children's book author.
- Was named "The Nation's Ideal War Community" in 1944 due to the strong and patriotic war effortr displayed by our town and its companies.
- Actually we are still known as "The Silver City of the World", because of such companies as International Silver (Insilco), New Departure, and Napier all originated in our town. (Chances are that if you own real silverware from before the 1940s, it was likely made in Meriden.)
- Home of East and West Peaks, the highest mountain within 25 miles of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Maine.

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Montclair, NJ

Home to Buzz Aldrin, who went through the Montclair public school system
Home to Yogi Berra
Home to the New Jersey Jackals of the Can-Am League (baseball).
The Jackals play at Yogi Berra Stadium.
Right next door to the Yogi Berra Museum
Filming location for the hit TV show, The Sopranos
Filming location for tons of commercials (its common place to see a film crew in Montclair)
For the girls. Home to Bobbi Brown, who has her own successful makeup line
Also Home to:
* Montclair Art Museum
* Howard Van Vleck Arboretum
* Presby Memorial Iris Gardens
* Van Vleck House and Gardens
* Montclair High School

We are basically a mid sided town where every one goes to NYC a lot.
For more information, check our Wikipedia reference
For More information on MHS and the Montclair public schools see those wikipedia refrences

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Montville, NJ

Pete Yorn used to live here
other than that nothing much, its just a boring town

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Orlando, FL

Tourism Capitol of the world. That's a fact, tourists from all over the world come here to be dazzled by the advances in engineering, and of course
to meet the mouse.

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Mr. Panda also forgot to add that we have a very booming industrial sector in our town. Companies such as J&J, Bristol Myers Squibb, etc, have had their facilities in or bordering North Brunswick. As he noted, I think that Raider Robotix is one of the only real 'claims to fame' our town has, besides Tim Howard of course.

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Bedford, NH -- Hmm, this isn't what I would normally indicate is my hometown's claim to fame, but on Chief Delphi, there's only one possible answer...

Dean Kamen lives here! (at Westwind)

Now if I could only afford to live in the same neighborhood...

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Dearborn, MI
-The Henry Ford a great place to visit and half of my team goes to school inside Greenfield village(the outdoor part).
-The TPC but this year was its last.
-Ford (enough said).

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Watertown, CT (includes Oakville, southern section of Watertown)
Located in Northwestern, CT. Part of Litchfield County.

Originally part of Waterbury but "spun off" in 1800's
Population about 25,000 last I know of (has grown dramatically last 15 years because of many subdivisions built)
Taft School located here, containing students from around the world (Mary Chapin' Carpenter graduated from here)
We have MANY car dealerships here, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Volvo, Mitsubishi, BMW, Saturn, Volkswagon, Lotus, Pontiac, Subaru, Isuzu, Jeep, Buick, Nissan
We also have two salvage yards
Several farms still active, many became presaid subdivisions though, one of which where I live (I don't have a septic tank but my grass still grows very well ;) )
As of this week we now have 3 Dunkin' Donuts
Watertown had a thriving manufacturing industry at the turn of the century and there are still many companies located here and we have one industrial park
We used to have a microbrewry here, "Hammer and Nails"
We used to also have a drive in but it's been closed for about 20 years now.
We have a state park, Black Rock (less than 5 minutes from where I am)
We have a mall, the Brass Mill Center located 10 minutes from here
We are minutes from the junction of two major highways, Rt 84 and Rt 8. Rt 8 actually goes through part of Watertown
Main part of Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, "Grace and Glory" filmed here (I bought some of the props afterward and still have them, movie also filmed in Litchfield and Goshen)


Team 38, Nonnebots, who helped 237 get going are the next town over from us in Woodbury located to our West. Two teams we helped get going, 716 Who's Cteks and 1784 Litchbots are also in Litchfield county located North and Northwest of us, respectively.

When I think of more I'll add to this unless Elgin or the Shaws beat me to it. :p

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Sayreville, NJ-

home of Jon Bon Jovi and Greg Evigan if thats worth anything.

The town was built on/around the Sayre Fisher Brick Company- the supplier of bricks for many of the buildings in NYC including the Empire State Building. The entire town is covered with bricks and old clay pits. Toxic waste dumps are also pretty common.

The world's oldest amber deposits are here and fossils of the rarest Cretaceous age insects, birds and reptiles have been found in recent years. Amber used to be common (if you knew how to look for it). This is the stuff that Michael Crichton based Jurassic Park upon. The same pits also hold the oldest marine fossils of the Mesozoic on the East Coast.

I rarely go back to the old town these days because it has been largely ghetto-fied and I dont recognize the place anymore.

WC :cool:

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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.

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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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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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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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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!