Well, Texas does have I-45, which originates in Galveston and ends in Dallas.
Nope, the capitol building for Louisiana doesn’t have a dome either.
Funding for the bridge to California is going to take some time.
I-37 From Corpus Christi to San Antonio.
I-27 From Lubbock to Amarillo
D’oh! :smack: Well, uh, Hawaii’s the only state with a volcano continuously erupting for 27 years.
Although not quite as far West, the Civil War action in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was set in present-day New Mexico. I recall a plaque in Albuquerque’s Old Town commemmorating the action around there.
They do that in Massachusetts as well. My ex-wife got the license plates ‘J 400’ from her father who has had them for 50 years or so. The latest batch is still really old and beaten up so I made the mistake of suggesting that she go and get some new plates of her own. I might as well have suggested that I take the family dog down to the vet and have it put down. Those plates are supposedly an especially valuable prestige item that took some string pulling to get many decades ago. I had no idea. Where I come from, people just order whatever dumb vanity plates they want on their own and most people can understand what they mean if they try.
New York is the only state that one must go through in order to travel from one group of multiple other states to another group of multiple other states without crossing an international border. (New Hampshire, of coruse, cuts Maine off from all other states, but only New York cuts off more a group of than one state [New England] from all other states. [Special recognition to anyone who can explain why Pennsylvania does not qualify.])
Pennsylvania, intriguingly, is the one state or province bordering New York that does not legally recognize gay marriages/unions.
New York is one of three states (along with Michigan and Wisconsin) to border more than one Great Lake.
Hawaii is the only state to have had an internationally recognized monarchy before joining the Union.
Maine is the only state to have a land border with a Maritime Province of Canada.
You can drive from New York to Delaware through New Jersey. I suppose you could also go by boat from New York to Ohio.
But MannyL said interstate system/ So all of Hawaii’s interstates put together still don’t go to any other state.
We have Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburgh in the west, and Alabama in between.
Is Ohio the only state that had a river catch on fire?
we are never going to live this down, are we?
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I coulda sworn I once read in a history textbook about the Houston Channel catching fire but wikipedia doesn’t mention it.
Didn’t Lake Erie once catch fire in the 1960s?? Not the entire lake, of course, but I seem to remember something about that.
Alabama is, to my knowledge, the only state with a Rattlesnake Rodeo (and yep, it really is a rodeo that involves catching rattlesnakes). Quite understandably it is the object of major scorn by environmentalists, though I’ll admit the rattlesnake chili I had from there was pretty good.
Something out of Eudora Welty or Truman Capote happened a few years ago when the town of Andalusia stole the rattlesnake rodeo from Opp and the two towns went to war politically and economically until Opp got it back. At least Andalusia still has the World Championship Dominoes Tournament; my nephew won the award for his age group there one year and to quote my sister-in-law (who wasn’t being the least little bit ironic) “he won the World Championship for his age division, and there were kids there from all over the state and even Florida and Georgia!”
Uniqueness and a lot of interesting firsts:
New York was the first state to require license plates on cars.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the United States.
The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was actually held in Bethel.
Oneida has the world’s smallest church with the dimensions of 3.5’ X 6’.
The first railroad in America ran a distance of 11 miles between Albany and Schenectady.
The first capital of the United States was New York City
Gennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria in 1895 in New York City
Horseheads is the first and only village in the United States dedicated to the service of the American military horse
Not sure how it stacks up, but there’s a Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas and in Georgia too.
Is that where Larry King is from?
Yeah, it was kind of a piddly battle, but a battle nonetheless.