Grand Junction, CO. Most recently, Norman Hsu made an unscheduled visit. And we’re just a few miles down the road from Fruita, CO, home of Mike the Headless Chicken, the subject of the Straight Dope classic column in this weeks newsletter.
The first documented Colorado gold find was in Arvada. Took nearly 10 years for word to get around and the Colorado gold rush to start, and the majority of the gold and silver later was not found here.
This is fairly typical of Arvada.
you forgot the most important thing…JOHN WATERS!!!
George W. Bush was born in CT.
I cannot tell you how proud I am. :rolleyes:
Hey Harmonious Discord! We LOVE it up there! Touristy? YOU BET! But that’s EXACTLY what entertains young kids. OK - so we’re not going to Arlington Cemetery and learning about “Great Moments In History” while we’re on vacation. But you know what - I just want to spend time with my wife and kids and have fun for the short time I can get away.
The Duck tours are a ton of fun, the scenery is outstanding (Ishnala is always going to be one of my favotite places), and if you know where to go (go to the ORIGINAL Fields, NOT the one at the Wilderness) the food is great too.
If you ever want to organize a Doper Water-Park Romp Im in!
Or we could all just crash at your place 
I live near this quarry
We were told growing up that it was the LARGEST limestone quarry in the world, but Wikipedia debunked that. 
Seriously, that is the only claim to fame here. One of Muhammad Ali’s ex-wives used to live nearby. (that hardly counts)
Oh, and Ray Kroc lived in Olympia Fields, IL–the next town over from here. His home was torn down and a rebuild went up a few years back. No, his house did not look like a McDonald’s (although it did have arches in front).
Hoboken, NJ is famous as the birthplace of Frank Sinatra and baseball. It holds the record for town with the most bars per capita in New Jersey.
Director Danny Leiner references Hoboken in several of his movies. It is the starting point for Harold & Kumars trip to White Castle and where they attempted to banish the Super Hot Giant Alien in Dude, Where’s My Car?
Wine casks (box wine) were invented here. So was penicillin but who cares about that.
This is a state of largest and most. Some examples:
Most bald eagles
Most lakes
Tallest mountains in North America
Most bears
Most land
Most glaciers
Most volcanos (or is it volcanoes?)
Most powerful earthquake to yet strike North America
Farthest northern, western and eastern state
And Mark McGuire cut his teeth playing for the local minor league team.
Or perhaps you’re just more easily caught than those in, say Taney County.
The 20 mule team’s route is only about 30 miles south of here.
I’m out in the country west of Chapel Hill, NC, in Alamance County. In a 15 mile radius of where I live, there are 10 Friends meeting houses (Quaker), the biggest concentration of Quakers in the whole South. Most left during the Revolutionary War, out of peaceful protest, back to a more hospitable Pennsylvania, but some stayed, and have thrived here. There is a local outdoor theatre, big attraction here in my tiny town that details the travails of the Quakers at that time, with a second production detailing how the Quakers here aided the Underground Railroad.
It’s very comforting for me to be surrounded by Friends/Quakers. It’s one of the most sensible Christian branches to my Buddhist sensibilities.
You mean this isn’t the real one?
Park Forest, IL
Planned and designed. The Organization Man Except they didn’t plan far enough ahead. 'nuff said.
Also home to the Scenic Ten race every Labor Day. Brings in runners from all over the world.
The “Sex after Marriage … But Not with Your Wife” thread reminded me that Bangkok is famous for penile-reattachment surgery. The local ladies have a habit of slicing off a wayward husband’s good buddy while he sleeps.
I live in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Wikipedia points out our murals on the flood wall, which are actually somewhat well heard of. I know this because I work at a hotel in town and everyone wants to know how to get to the flood wall and see the paintings.
We’re also the destination for TOSRV, a biking tour from Columbus to Portsmouth every year, which is regionally well-known (or at least kind of).
We are also the home of Mitchellace, the largest manufacturer of shoelaces in the world (again, wikipedia as a cite…)
We used to have an NFL team in the 20’s-30’s, the Portsmouth Spartans. They competed in the first NFL night game against Green Bay. There was some success of the team, but the Great Depression caused them to be sold off to a new home, Detroit, where they became the Lions.
Other than that, it was noted in the newspaper about a year ago that we have a huge number of drug runners in town. The section of 23 between here and Columbus is well known as a drug route, and the number of drug arrests (specifically cocaine) is rather high. For the region, this was a small surprise to me. Once I lived here for a few years, I am not so surprised…
There is also a huge amount of prostitution that takes place, specifically in the area near my old apartment (near 23, down town).
SOMC, our hospital, is ranked as one of the ten best employers in Ohio, and the university here is Ohio’s newest State University, founded in 1986. We also had a higher percentage of pre-med students get into med school than any other program in Ohio (cite is my prof. mentioned this. I don’t know where that came from)
Brendon Small
My county (Door) has the most miles of shoreline of any US county (300).
It’s not hard, as we are on a peninsula in Lake Michigan, or an island, if you count the manmade canal.
It used to be 242, but after some revised mapmaking, they upped it to 300. Must have found some undocumented waterfront lurking. 
From this page:
An oversized reproduction of the stamp decorates the wall of the post office I patronize.
The Knickerbocker Saloon calls itself “Indiana’s Oldest Bar”, as it received the state’s first liquor license.
:eek:
I may have to reconsider my plan to seek a Thai woman… or at least my plan to be wayward.
[sub]Oh who am I kidding. I’ve never been wayward in my life.[/sub]
Delware had the last person to be hanged as a means of execution.
We are the home of the DuPont Corporation, which invented Nylon, Rayon, and many other wonderful synthetic fabrics.
Gortex was invented by a Delawarean and the company is in New Castle County.
Consistently rank in the top 5 for cancer deaths and HIV/AIDS positive individuals.
Has the largest morgue in the US at the Dover Air Force Base (all people killed in combat are processed through that morgue).