LOVE reading bout people's home town,,,,

Plum Island MA is one of the largest bird sanctuary's in the world. Bird Watcher watching is a pastime of the nativeislander's A strange species indeed. The island is a barrier island, 13 miles long, 3 miles wide, with 9 miles devoted to sanctuary. Back in the day, it was known for shipbuilding and as a sea port.

Anyone for Striper fishin?

Sault Ste.Marie, MI. is the oldest city in Michigan, also one of the oldest in the country. It is also home to the world famous "soo locks", the largest and busiest in the western hemisphere...connecting Lake Superior to Lake Huron..an honor we share with our sister city, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. On the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, she was on her way to the locks. It went down in Whitefish Point.
Sault Ste. Marie, for you hockey buffs, is the ORIGINAL "hockey town, U.S.A., by the way..

Wow thought this thread had died the other day wow things that happen after you go to bed kewl love all the feed back sure we all can find things that we dont even know about our towns if we seacherd heheh Great job all hope to hear more.

nice thread, txs!

I KNOW, I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Snowbirds" here in AZ also.. Damn I wish it was "open" season on them...

dont blink or you will go through my town
but surrounding towns these people live or lived there.
Stephen King
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Linda Lavin
Liv Tyler

Fort Smith Northwest Territories is the Garden Capital of the Northwest Territories. We are also the headquarters of Wood Buffalo National Park the largest national park in north america and maybe the world.

Thanks awesome some really good stuff here.

My local town:


Rietberg is a town in the district of Gütersloh in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located approx. 10 km south of Gütersloh and 25 km north-west of Paderborn in the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The town is located at the river Ems. There are 28,876 people living in Rietberg.


History
Rietberg was first mentioned as 'Rietbike' around the year 1100. This name refers to Ried which is an old name for reed and to 'Bach' which means creek. There was a castle that dated back to the 11th century. From 1237 it was home to the family of the Count of Rietberg. From this time on the part 'Berg' in the name Rietberg refers to the existence of a castle which is called 'Burg' in German.


County of Rietberg Since that time Rietberg was an independent German territory until the year 1807. In the Middle Ages the county of Rietberg was a very small state. Nevertheless, Rietberg had its own military, its own currency and its own laws. Even foreign policy, on a small scale, was conducted independently. Until the 17th century Rietberg coined its own money. Until the 18th century the Government was located in the Palace, built in the 14th century.

At the beginning of the 19th century the Palace was torn down because it was not needed anymore. Only the St. Johns Chapel from 1748 can still be visited today.

In the year 1807 Rietberg became a part of Prussia. So it was not independent anymore. In the year 1843 the municipality Rietberg was established. Since 1970 Rietberg has been organised politically as it is today. [2]


Sights
The best known building in Rietberg is the Town Hall from around 1800 in the centre of the Town. There are several other interesting historical buildings in the town like the 'Altes Progymnasium', the 'chapel of St. John' or the old Court House. In the historical Town centre there are generally around 60 old nice renovated half-timbered houses. That's why Rietberg is also known as 'the town of beautiful gables'. It's still possible to see where the former Rampart surrounded the Town. Today there is no Rampart anymore, but a Promenade next to the river Ems and the 'Umflut' on which it is possible to have a nice walk around the town centre. In the ward Varensell there is the Varensell Abbey from 1902.


Events

Tommy Emmanuel at the Guitar Festival in 2006.In Rietberg carnival is the biggest event throughout the year. Every year around 50,000 people watch the Parade at Carnival Monday. After the Parade the people party in the streets and the bars for the whole night.

Other Events are the Maikirmes Fair or the Stoppelkirmes Fair. And there are some traditional 'Schützenfeste', which are fair featuring shooting matches in Rietberg.

Since the year 2004, there is every year in the Summer a Guitar Festival with Tommy Emmanuel.


Education
Schools in Rietberg: [3]

7 Elementary Schools
3 Secondary schools of the type 'Hauptschule'
1 Secondary school of the type 'Realschule'
1 Secondary school of the type 'Gymnasium'
8 Libraries
1 School for mentally handicapped children
Adult evening classes 'Volkshochschule' with around 100 courses each semester

Economy
An important industry for Rietberg and the surrounding area is the furniture industry. In Rietberg itself there is a big galvanizing plant and a Schnapps destillery.

General facts, percentage of employees: [4]

Industry: 54.5 %
Commerce: 18.8 %
Service: 18.3 %
Agriculture: 1.0 %
Other: 7.4 %

Sister cities
Ribérac, France, since 1983
Glogowek, Poland, since 1999

Future

Presentation of the Logo for the gardening show in 2008.The 'Landesgartenschau' of the year 2008 will take place in Rietberg. The 'Landesgartenschau' is a show of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia that shows gardens and parcs of an area. It takes part in different cities each three years. A lot of parc area will be created until the year 2008. So Rietberg will change a lot in the next time. In the year 2008 there will be an area with parcs, gardens and playgrounds in Rietberg that can only be entered after paying an entrance fee. After the 'Landesgartenschau', the area will be a normal parc that can be entered without paying an entrance fee.


Wards in the town of Rietberg
Bokel
Druffel
Mastholte This is where I live
Neuenkirchen
Rietberg
Varensell
Westerwiehe

Newton Falls, Ohio is the drug traffiking capital of Trumbull county, mostly due to the location of the Ohio Turnpike.

Americas Most wanted has been to Newton Falls.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=44618

Newton Falls is known for its covered bridge, the second oldest covered bridge in Ohio.

Newton Falls is also known as "Zip city USA" because the zip code is 44444.

Newton Falls the largest Fourth of July Festivities in Trumbull county.

More can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Falls,_Ohio

Also checkoput where I was born and raised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Ohio

I live in the land of single mom's and assholes...........LOL

WOW Tom that is awesome really enjoyed reading that you see my grandfather was from Prussia and came to the states in 1806 as a boy they ended up living in Nebraska. This is just to kewl thanks for the input it is awesome.

we have largest earthen dam in the country and cyrstal cave large underground caves

riddle pop 985 0.7 10/s square mile
has 5 lumber mills

Archeological evidence suggests that various nomadic native peoples had occupied the island of Montreal for at least 2,000 years before the arrival of Europeans.[8] With the development of the maize horticulture, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians established the village of Hochelaga at the foot of the Mount Royal.[9] The French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on October 2, 1535, claiming the St. Lawrence Valley for France.[10] He estimated the population to be "over a thousand".

Seventy years later, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared altogether from the St. Lawrence valley, likely due to inter-tribe wars, European diseases, and out-migration.[9] Champlain established in 1611 a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal, on a site initially named La Place Royale, at the confluence of Saint-Pierre river and St-Lawrence river, where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands.[11].
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, founder of Ville-Marie
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, founder of Ville-Marie

In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal to establish a Roman Catholic mission for evangelizing natives. Ville-Marie, the first permanent French settlement on the Island, was founded in 1642 at Pointe-à-Callière. Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve would act as governor of the colony, and Jeanne Mance built the Hôtel-Dieu, Montreal's first hospital.

By 1651, Ville-Marie had been reduced to less than 50 inhabitants by relentless attacks by Iroquois. Maisonneuve returned to France that year with the intention of recruiting 100 men to bolster the failing colony. He had already decided that should he fail to recruit these settlers, he would abandon Ville-Marie and move everyone back downriver to Quebec City. (Even 10 years after its founding, the people of Quebec City still thought of Montréal as "une folle enterprise" - a crazy undertaking.)[12] These recruits arrived on 16th November 1653 and essentially guaranteed the evolution of Ville Marie and of all New France.[12] Marguerite Bourgeoys would found the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Montreal's first school, in 1653. In 1663, the Sulpician seminary became the new Seigneur of the island.

Complementing its missionary origins, Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further French exploration in North America. The bloody French and Iroquois Wars would threaten the survival of Ville-Marie until a peace treaty (see the Great Peace of Montreal[13]) was signed at Montreal in 1701. With the Great Peace, Montreal and the surrounding seigneuries nearby (Terrebonne, Lachenaie, Boucherville, Lachine, Longueuil, ...) could develop without the fear of Iroquois raids.[14] Ville-Marie remained a French colony until 1760, when Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal surrendered it to the British army under Jeffrey Amherst during the French and Indian War.

The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the Seven Years' War and ceded eastern New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain. American Revolutionists under General Richard Montgomery briefly captured the city during the 1775 invasion of Canada.[15]
Industrialized city 1889
Industrialized city 1889

Montreal was incorporated as a city in 1832. The opening of the Lachine Canal permitted ships to bypass the unnavigable Lachine Rapids, while the construction of the Victoria Bridge established Montreal as a major railway hub. These linked the established Port of Montréal with continental markets and spawned rapid industrialization during the mid 1800s. The economic boom attracted French Canadian labourers from the surrounding countryside to factories in satellite cities such as Saint-Henri and Maisonneuve. Irish immigrants settled in tough working class neighbourhoods such as Point Saint Charles and Griffintown, making English and French linguistic groups roughly equal in size. By 1852, Montreal had 60,000 inhabitants; by 1860, it was the largest city in British North America and the undisputed economic and cultural centre of Canada.

Montreal was the capital of the Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849, but lost its status when a Tory mob burnt down the Parliament building to protest passage of the Rebellion Losses Bill.

Montrose, Colorado. Well, let's see...Jack Dempsey trained and fought a couple of bouts here. (For the younger readers, Jack did NOT star on Grey's Anatomy) We are home to Black Canyon National Park, rumored to be the world's deepest abyss. Actually, that might be the cumulative story for my exes hearts. The Sundance Kid probably rode through here. Chief Ouray and his wife Chipeta had a farm here for years.

Oh, yes, and home to half of Texas in the summer. :-) It is beautiful country around here. I am blessed to live here. Wonderful weather, really, with 4 distinct seasons. Oh, and ladies....there IS room at the Inn.

Awesome some more really good post indeed love to hear about other places


Chisholm Trail

Indians. Cattle. Railroads. Oil. The Western History of Fort Worth reads like the history of the American West.

Fort Worth Western History began as an army outpost in 1849, established to protect settlers from Indian attacks. Soon, Fort Worth became the last major stop on the legendary Chisholm Trail, the dusty path where millions of cattle were driven North to market. The Western History of Fort Worth was the wild era of "Hell's Half Acre," an area of town filled with gambling parlors, saloons, and dance halls. Later, the railroad transformed the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier livestock center. And when oil began to gush in West Texas, Fort Worth was at the center of the wheeling and dealing.

Known as "Cowtown" for its rough-and-rowdy roots, Fort Worth still celebrates its colorful Western history and heritage today.

Awww and for anyone that Fort Worth was to cross your mind and you every took the time to visit and go to the Stockyards the Cowboys still ride on horseback for the tourist. Heck you can even say hi to my ex yeppiers that is what he now does for a living works for the City of Forth Worth riding a horse in the Stockyards what a cushion job to have. Sweet.

Well, Denver is home to the Unsinkable Molly Brown's house. She was one of the few to survive the Titanic. The fantantic Rocky Mountains are always great. A gold rush boom town.

Oh and I found this on the strange but true site:

In Denver Colorado, it is illegal to lend your vacuum cleaner to your neighbors.

I live along the Mississippi River. This is the only place along its entire path where it runs east/west instead of north/south.