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re: Odd history or little known facts about your hometown.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:43 am to AnorexicGator
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:43 am to AnorexicGator
Two British soldiers are buried at the Episcopal Church where I grew up. They are not in the church cemetery but were buried in the church grounds by a wall.
The church members felt they deserved a decent burial, just not among those who were in the cemetery.
The church members felt they deserved a decent burial, just not among those who were in the cemetery.
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 11:47 am to blueridgeTiger
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Another little tidbit about Bogalusa - five young men from there endured the infamous Bataan Death March.
That's an odd fact. What was the population of Bogalusa, or even all of Washington Parish, in 1940? What are the chances five guys from the area were all captured on the Bataan peninsula AND survived the death march, plus the next 4-1/2 years as slave laborers? Were they brothers or some kind of relatives?
I hope those guys never had to pay for a beer for the rest of their lives.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:51 am to Placebeaux
Have you read that Leander Perez biography? If so, would you recommend it?
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 11:56 am to White Roach
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That's an odd fact. What was the population of Bogalusa, or even all of Washington Parish, in 1940? What are the chances five guys from the area were all captured on the Bataan peninsula AND survived the death march, plus the next 4-1/2 years as slave laborers? Were they brothers or some kind of relatives?
Not brothers, not even with the same units. Four of the five were sent to slave labor camps in China and Japan (all survived); one was considered too ill to be sent off for labor and was still in Camp Cabanatuan when the Army Rangers rescued the remaining POWs in January 1945, dramatized in the movie, The Great Raid.
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 12:02 pm to Reservoir dawg
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New Orleans has had more than its fair share of plane crashes.
Not New Orleans baw.
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 12:13 pm to Clyde Tipton
My current hometown is the only city where City Hall has a working moonshine distillery in it.
We also claim the birthplace of stock car racing (not because of the races... but because of the shine).
We also claim the birthplace of stock car racing (not because of the races... but because of the shine).
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 12:20 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Not brothers, not even with the same units
That's crazy. I know it was sort of common back then for relatives or friends to enlist together and request the same unit. Of course that all ended with the five Sullivan brothers all dying on the USS Juneau.
I know a very large number of American and Filipino prisoners were taken when Bataan and Corregidor fell. Maybe 100,000? Not sure how many were Americans. Seems strange to think that even with that many prisoners that five would be from Bogalusa and even stranger that they weren't related in some way. That's a cool bit of trivia!
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 12:24 pm to meansonny
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:27 pm to dpd901
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:27 pm to meansonny
My high school had 2 janitors. One was a Bataan survivor. He was always half running everywhere he went.
The other was a Vietnam vet, and one of only 33 to escape from Jonestown. His wife and child died there.
The other was a Vietnam vet, and one of only 33 to escape from Jonestown. His wife and child died there.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:40 pm to tankyank13
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There is one BBC in our town and it’s with my wife on the regular. Very odd and interesting
Uhhhhh.
My hometown was home to the first all weather turnpike in the south, the aptly named Shed Road. A shed covered it for 9 miles.
This post was edited on 5/15/18 at 12:41 pm
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