Odd hometown history

The downtown streets of my current residence was laid out to look like a Masonic symbol. We have many odd intersections.

The fictitious home of Callahan Auto Parts.

nothing in the township I live in.. but south of here is "Somers Point". The most famous member of the Somers Family being Captain Richard Somers who attempted to blockade the Tripoli harbour during our problems with the pirates there.

Unfortunately the ship he was aboard, the USS Intrepid, blew up before she could be placed, taking him with her. He and the other members of the crew who died are still interred at a small cematary in Tripoli.

Somers Point was also the setting for the movie "Eddie and the Cruisers" and most of the movie was shot there.

East of here is Atlantic City, which needs no introduction. One of it's claims to fame (among many) was the coinage of the term "airport"> Bader Field, now shut down, was the world's first "Air Port"

Much further south is Cape May NJ. The only town on the list of Historic Places. It is also home to Congress Hall, once called the "Summer White House" as the president and other members of the government would come to Cape May (it's actually further south than DC) to escape the oppressive heat and humidity of DC

^^^ what he said... I grew up in Somers Point

redrabbit wrote: My hometown is Connellsville Pa. 45 min. from Ohiopyle(whitewater rafting) Frank Loyde Wright's "Fallingwater" and about an hour from Shankville. Around 1974 about half the police force was arrested for a burglary ring. Several officers were convicted! I was 15 at the time. I live near Cleveland Oh now.

If you know anyone with the last name pegg, or less likely dawson, im probably related if the gave family that moved to Baltimore after the war. My grandparents moved here from connellsville.

Jacksboro Highway heading out of Fort Worth was Vegas before there was a Vega.

THE place to perform was on Casino Beach on Lake Worth. All the biggest names played here.

Near my home was the body dump for all the gangsters in the 30's and 40's.

Go back a little further and a whole bunch of the wild west stories you read about or saw on TV actually happened here.

It was the road into the Stockyards from the Chisholm trail.

A friend close by lives in an old whore house.

Nathan Hale landed and was soon captured by the British just down the street from us. I also went to high school with Mariah Carey. (Not sure if that's a plus or not.)

from a purely visual point of view.. a plus.

John Wayne graduated from my high school. A few years before me, though.

I went to high school with Alanis Morrisette.

my hometown: Jackson, MS.

1. Isn't the exact center of the state, that'd be a swamp. They picked it for the capital anyway.
2. Is built on a volcano. The only capital city in America, no less. It's 2900 feet below the Fairgrounds.
3. The civil war happened here.
4. and my favorite: The Royal Dutch Air Force trained at Hawkins field during WWII. Legend has it their favorite past time was buzzing downtown in their bombers and flying under the bridges on the Mississippi River. The ones who died are buried in one of the main cemeteries.
5. Clinton was home to a POW camp for Germans captured in North Africa during WWII. It was a laid back place: two such escapees actually returned to camp about midnight. They claimed they went to a movie and came back.

Keith wrote: I went to high school with Alanis Morrisette.

Isn't that ironic...

jrw1621 wrote:

Keith wrote: I went to high school with Alanis Morrisette.

Isn't that ironic...

We have a winner!

jrw1621 wrote: The downtown streets of my current residence was laid out to look like a Masonic symbol. We have many odd intersections. The fictitious home of Callahan Auto Parts.

Not only that, but Upper Sandusky is actually south of Sandusky. (it's actually a whole other town altogether)

Though Upper is farther south it is farther up-stream on the Sandusky River; hence the name.

Speaking of river's, the Maumee River in my birthplace of Toledo is the largest single contributing river to the Great Lakes. More water flows down the Maumee River and into the Great Lakes than any other tributary.

Speaking of Great Lakes, the most southern point of all the Great Lakes is about 10 miles east of my house at Ruggles Beach. It sits about 20 miles farther south than Lake Michigan in the Gary, IN area.

Asheville ( first city near my little town ) is home to the country's largest single family dwelling ( http://www.biltmore.com/ )

and because of the encouraged and accepted " alternative life style" of many of Asheville's residents, it's been called the San Francisco of the east

my little town / high school has been home to Brad Daugherty , Brad Johnson, and Sammy Stewart... stick and ball fans will/should recognize these... a high school of < 1000 with 3 all stars in 3 different sports

Patricia Cornwell is also a graduate of my high school

and there is a popular 80's female singer ( that for the life of me I can't remember ) that grew up here.... ( not sure how long she lived here, if in fact she did... the story was that her mom was a teacher here..)

edit: finally remembered.... Roberta Flack

The diner and police station in the original version of The Blob are in Downingtown, PA. I went to elementary school behind the diner.

I live in Sacramento, seat of California government.

Adult film star Nicole Sheridan was born here.

You know she is talented because her Wiki says she is a multiple award winner.

2002 AVN Best Anal Sex Scene – Film for Taboo 2001 : A Sex Odyssey
2007 AVN Best Group Sex Scene – Video for Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge

My hometown is the birthplace of Ray Charles, and the site of the initial squelching of the desegregation movements in the early 1960's.

Albany Movement

King was arrested here, and his efforts stopped. Although, it is where they learned the basics of non-violent protest before moving to Selma and Birmingham. Perhaps you could say that the successes the desegregation movements experienced in those places could not have been achieved without the failures first experienced here.

A sorted history.

I went to college in Ga ( Young Harris Jr Col ).... several yrs before I got there, there was a blind black music student there... pretty much refused to do the required school work that was laid out for him, all he wanted to do was play piano/make music.... he was soon invited to pursue his music somewhere else...

that man ? Ray Charles

let's see....

home of the first paper mill in the state of NH (1793)

our public library was built as a gift from John Shedd, who at one time was president of Marshall Field & Co from Chicago

Nitroracer wrote: Slightly further away, and way more recognizable to people not from the area is Kennet Square, Pa. The mushroom capital of the world. Yes, it smells horrible.

That's Avondale! I've been there, I will vouch it stinks very much bad.

If we are moving on to famous people from our high schools, then I can say that Yankee Nick Swisher (after my time) went to my High School as did Jon Benet Ramsey's mother (before my time).

FlightService wrote:

Nitroracer wrote: Slightly further away, and way more recognizable to people not from the area is Kennet Square, Pa. The mushroom capital of the world. Yes, it smells horrible.

That's Avondale! I've been there, I will vouch it stinks very much bad.

I used to drive by the Georgio plant outside of reading pa all the time.. and people wonder why I won't ear mushrooms

Pro golfer JB Holmes went to my high school a few years before me, and so did former pro basketball player and current college coach Clem Haskins.

Our bank was robbed by Jesse James too, and we also have a very prevalent witch legend in the old train tunnel twp miles from my house.

Other than that, not much to campbellsville...