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re: Odd history or little known facts about your hometown.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:14 am to PCRammer
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:14 am to PCRammer
The odd history is the only thing known about my town.
1. You can “eat where it all began” at the birthplace of KFC.
2. I think we now have the only reoccurring moonbow left. Go Cumberland falls!
1. You can “eat where it all began” at the birthplace of KFC.
2. I think we now have the only reoccurring moonbow left. Go Cumberland falls!
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:19 am to PCRammer
It was the setting for the original Tarzan movies and also where Kris Kristofferson wrote "Me and Bobby McGee" while flying helicopters for PHI.
First part is fact. The second might be bullshite.
First part is fact. The second might be bullshite.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:20 am to PCRammer
Our county courthouse has murals inside the dome which depict the county history. shite is hilarious---apparently the settlers from my town marched with pitchforks and torches to the other town and stole the county seat while torching everything in their path.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:20 am to PCRammer
In an episode of the Andy Griffith show, he is visited by a relative that is from Lake Charles.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:22 am to PCRammer
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Mandeville is also home to the largest certified southern live oak tree, the Seven Sisters Oak.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:22 am to PCRammer
The first heart transplant was done in Jackson.
Jackson had a Ferrari dealership in the 1980's.
Am I doing this right?
Jackson had a Ferrari dealership in the 1980's.
Am I doing this right?
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:22 am to PCRammer
The Jif peanut butter plant in Lexington produces more peanut butter than any other factory on earth.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:24 am to PCRammer
Columbia, MS
home of walter payton.. and Pioneer Manufacturing that is one of the largest parachutte makers in the world
In 1999, Pioneer manufactured, at the time, the world's largest parafoil (7,500 square ft.) for the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle, an emergency return capsule for the crew of the International Space Station.
home of walter payton.. and Pioneer Manufacturing that is one of the largest parachutte makers in the world
In 1999, Pioneer manufactured, at the time, the world's largest parafoil (7,500 square ft.) for the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle, an emergency return capsule for the crew of the International Space Station.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:27 am to PCRammer
Union Protestant Church (Mandeville Bible Church) was built in 1876, one of the oldest churches in St. Tammany.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:28 am to PCRammer
Stonewall Jackson lived at Wolf Island, Missouri from 1836 to 1837. His relatives still live in Mississippi County and I graduated from high school with one of them.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:44 am to PCRammer
It's one of the very few single tax colonies in America. It's home (the eastern shore) to jubilees on the bay which only happens in one other location in the world
Fairhope
Fairhope
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:54 am to PCRammer
There is one BBC in our town and it’s with my wife on the regular. Very odd and interesting
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:00 pm to PCRammer
Marlon Brando went to my high school his freshman year and was expelled for being his motorcycle into the school and riding it down flights of stairs.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:01 pm to PCRammer
My current home town is the official site of the first air mail (in 1859). Advertised at the time as going (by balloon) from Lafayette, IN to New York, the balloon actually made it just about to Crawfordsville, 30 miles away, then the mail went by train. They still count it though.
Crawfordsville was, of course, where General Lew Wallace lived when he wrote Ben-Hur.
Crawfordsville was, of course, where General Lew Wallace lived when he wrote Ben-Hur.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:10 pm to PCRammer
Leesville was located in a contested area along the Sabine River after the Louisiana purchase known as "no man's land". To the the west about 10 miles was the ferry crossing of the Sabine River into Texas known as Burr Ferry named after the owner/settler Timothy Burr, 2nd cousin of Vice President Aaron Burr. It is rumored this is where Aaron Burr hid out after shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Also, Cecil Collins is from there.
Also, Cecil Collins is from there.
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 7:04 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:18 pm to PCRammer
From Stuttgart, AR - Rice & Duck Capital of the World
Eta: We also had a POW camp that held Germans & Italians during World War 2
Eta: We also had a POW camp that held Germans & Italians during World War 2
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:21 pm to PCRammer
I don't want to out myself by naming my current hometown, so I'll give one about the place I was born, Shreveport. Before the Civil War more duels took place there than anywhere in the US.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:22 pm to PCRammer
I grew up in Plaquemine, which is the native word for persimmon, which was originally spelled Plakemine.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:23 pm to PCRammer
I grew up in an unincorporated area of Vermilion parish. We have a four-way stop, that's it. And, it wasn't actually a four-way stop until one of the stop signs was knocked down during a hurricane about 15 years ago and there was a fatal accident at that intersection.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:43 pm to PCRammer
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