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What is the most famous thing your state is known for?Here in Oregon it would definatly be Lewis and Clark. Some others worth honorable mention: Columbia River. Mountain men and beaver trapping(Fremont and Kit Carson camped on the Deschutes river here in Bend not more than a mile from my house.) And of course we have an awsome coastline. Oh yea and the Hudsons Bay company had their finger in the pie for quite a while.
Horses, whiskey, tobacco, baseball bats, Abe Lincoln, Jeff Davis, Henry Clay, Cassius Clay, Loretta Lynn, Tom Cruise, Diane Sawyer, Colonel Sanders and his 11 herbs and spices, and college basketball. Oh I almost forgot burgoo and mint juleps. 😀
Horses, whiskey, tobacco, baseball bats, Abe Lincoln, Jeff Davis, Henry Clay, Cassius Clay, Loretta Lynn, Tom Cruise, Diane Sawyer, Colonel Sanders and his 11 herbs and spices, and college basketball. Oh I almost forgot burgoo and mint juleps. 😀
Dont forget Bluegrass (the music of course)
Named after a mythical island in a Spanish novel, slipped away from Mexican control (to far out in left field), the Gold Rush, the Compromise of 1850, the movies, haven to the migrants from the Dust Bowl, the aircraft industry of WWII, the land of the fruits and nuts…. Wally
Roger WilliamsAnne HutchinsonCoffee SyrupG. I. Joes (Manufactured by Hasbro in Pawtucket)Quahog (no, it is not a clam) Quahog Fact SheetRumford Baking Powder (that's my town!)
This is a good topic. We should have made a game out of this where we give clues to the city where we live based on its history and other people try to guess the place. For me, I currently live a few blocks from the longest stretch of residential Victorian homes in (I think) North America. Two or three homes down the street is the house where F. Scott Fitzgerald was born (so I'm told), and homes and buildings by Cass Gilbert (same person who designed the U.S. Supreme Court building) are in the area.
This is a good topic. We should have made a game out of this where we give clues to the city where we live based on its history and other people try to guess the place. For me, I currently live a few blocks from the longest stretch of residential Victorian homes in (I think) North America. Two or three homes down the street is the house where F. Scott Fitzgerald was born (so I'm told), and homes and buildings by Cass Gilbert (same person who designed the U.S. Supreme Court building) are in the area.
St Paul? I visited Minneapolis once a few years ago.
