Oakland, I presume, zigaretten? 
Where I live:
-World’s oldest continuously held rodeo.
-Once home to Virgil Earp
-“Whiskey Row”, a section of Montezuma Street across from the Courthouse is a historic monument
-Doc Holliday gambled on Whiskey Row
-Sheriff Bucky O’Neill went on to become a Rough Rider and charge up San Juan Hill
Now, guess where I live? 
My home town (of birth) was once called Lisnagarvey.
It then burned to the ground in 1707 in a great fire.
It was rebuilt, and renamed, as Lisburn.
It, finally (and undeservedly) became a city last year, to much ado.
It now has the Phoenix on its emblem, and a latin phrase meaning “Out of the flames we shall rise again”
My area of the world The antelope valley ca is known for 90 percent of the spy planes and NASA equipment passing through or being made here until recently anyway …
In WW2 we were considered the governments secret air base (in fact to this day if ya take a wrong turn down certain roads outside of palmdale you’ll be getting pulled over by a few mps)
The sound barrier was first broken here … and most of the early astronauts were test pilots at edwards AFB
So most of our history was avation/aerospaced based
frank zappa lived here as did Judy garland and other Hollywood stars since the area was a quick getaway from la
Oh and this note in the old microfilm files in the late twenties one of the local groups had a dance and an actor named Marion Morrison was briefly detained because the ladies thought that since his horse was walking oddly he got the horse drunk … come to find out the horse was cross-eyed
Marion Morrison became john Wayne a few years later
Montreal is host to the 4000th McDonald’s.
Plus some other stuff, but I forgot.
Born and raised in Fredericksburg, VA “Where America Grew Up.” George Washington spent his youth in Fredericksburg and his mother lived there her remaining years. Other residents include James Monroe, who maintained his law office in F’burg. The other claim to fame is the Battle of Fredericksburg - one of the biggest Confederate victories of the Civil War.
Currently live in Richmond. Patrick Henry’s “liberty or death” speech was given here, the Capitol was designed by Thomas Jefferson, and the city served as the capitol of the Confederacy.
I live at West Point. 'Nuff said.
My home town is called Christmas City USA.
Just a little thing called the Declaration of Independence.
Phil
Philadelphia, PA.
I live in London (That’s London, England) which has many cool things burt I’m from Winchester (Old Hampshire, Old England) which:
Was the capital of England prior to London
Has 12 Kings buried in it (Including CAnute and Alfred)
Has the highest pubs/population ratio of any town in Britain
Was JAne Austens home town (she’s buried in the cathedral)
HAs King Arthur’s round table innit (and yes it is genuine, well genuineish)
Is the fictional “Barchester” in the Trollope books
Is where football was invented.
Not bad for a little place
Pssh. Kid stuff. I’m in Boston.
The city of my birth, Los Angeles, has lots of cool stuff, and a fair amount of history, since it was founded in 1781. Sadly, the smog and traffic and large numbers of wannabe actors, writers and directors have ruined it for me.
The city of my current residence, San Antonio, is home to the Alamo and several missions. Very famous. Trust me.
The city of my imminent residence, a suburb of Harrisburg, PA, is near the capital of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, and Hershey.
I move a lot.
Robin
The only known monument to William Wallace (Braveheart) is in Druid Hill Park in downtown Baltimore.
Edgar Allen Poe died here, drunk. Someone leaves a bottle of cognac at his grave every year on his birthday.
We have the Babe Ruth Museum.
We have the USS Constitution, fully restored, in the harbor.
We have Fort McHenry, where a little ditty known as the National Anthem was written.
Homicide: Life On The Streets was filmed here.
Divine is buried in a cemetary about five minutes from my house.
Baltimore produced both Barry Levinson and John Waters.
Both have filmed most of their movies here.
Birthplace and hometown of Henry Ford; location of Ford World HQ; location of the historical “Battle of the Overpass” on Miller Road outside of Ford’s Rouge Complex.
Also, infamous and renowned racist Orville Hubbard ruled the city for 36 years.
Happy
I guess one of the weirder historical facts about Rhode Island–aside from the Big Blue Bug (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/ri.html) that is–would be the story of Roger William’s Root (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/RIPROtree.html). It’s a true story, too, well sort of.
Roger Williams, founder of our fair state (colony at the time, but you know what I mean), was buried under an apple tree on his farm around about 1683. In 1953 it was decided that he deserved a more auspicious memorial so they went to dig him up. Actually, they probably had rezoned his farm as commercial so they could add another (much needed) Dunkin Donuts, but that’s a story for a different kind of thread. Anyway, when they went to exhume what was left, they found the tree’s roots had grown down through the coffin and come out the other end. The root resembles a large tuning fork and some people were convinced it had grown down the length of William’s body, branching off at the feet.
Whatever the case, it is now the property of the RI Historical Society’s museum and they store it in a coffin shaped box–you can see it by appointment only and they’re not really thrilled about advertising the thing. I always felt they were really missing out on a very lucrative opportunity–t-shirt and apple sales alone would be big, and if they could manage any DNA from the root itself it’d make for a really cool living history musuem!
Well… let’s see… My birthplace is Rome NY, home to Griffiss AFB and Fort Stanwix (I believe it’s a French & Indian War Fort). There’s a Rainbow Trout Farm there, some kind of park there with something to do with the Erie canal, and it’s about 45 minutes from Thousand Islands at the Canadian line.
Where I consider home… Dover Delaware… Caesar Rodney is buried here - he’s the guy that made us the first state by taking an express horse to Phillie to sign some document or other- you can see him on the back of the Delaware quarter. We have Dover AFB which is the largest military mortuary on the east coast. Ron Brown and his party were brought here, all the Jim Jones followers bodies were brought here, something like 40,000+ bodies from Vietnam were brought here, the bodies of the marines that were killed in Beiruit, and anyone killed in europe and the middle east are brought here. We do have an AF museum here which is housed in an original WWII hangar. Dover AFB was founded just prior to WWII.
Dover is the Capital of this state that no one’s exactly sure where it is… if you go to Claifornia, most people say, DelaWHERE? hence a lot of t-shirts (also Where the hell is Dover Del? is a popular tshirt).
We are called The Small Wonder, the Diamond State… and more recently … Home of the tax free shopping. Delaware has the oldest brick house in America (or so they say), the oldest Weslley church in America. The only thing we ever did as a state officially during the civil war was house confederate prisoners on Pea Patch Island in Fort Delaware.
We are home to the DuPonts, Carpenters, and others in that crowd - up in Wilmington, and sometimes spreading out into Pennsylvania.
There is a house in Magnolia (just about 10 miles from Dover) that claims to be the center of the Universe. The lady who owns it just happened to be the back up Teacher in Space on that Ill-fated Challenger launch of the space shuttle. And not far from that town is another one called Frederica which happens to be the only place in the US that manufacturers space suits.
I think that’s about it.
I was from in Stroud, Gloucestershire:
It was where the lawnmower was invented (originaly designed to trim down cloth)
It was where the phrase ‘caught red handed’ came from (red cloth, which was very expensive. was laid out to dry on hillsides, so when people stole some, it would dye their hands red).
I was born in Gloucester where the Humpty-Dumpty nursery rhyme came from (it was about a siege engine in the English civil war).
Tupelo, MS
[ul][li]Named after a type of gum tree, whose wood is good for carving.[/li][li]First paved road south of the Mason-Dixon line.[/li][li]First TVA city[/li][li]Birthplace of Elvis[/ul][/li]
Tupelo was an insignificant settlement until the railroads were built. Two railroad lines were being built and would cross somewhere nearby. The largest town was Verona and they objected because they were afraid the trains would scare the chickens. So the lines were changed so that they crossed at Tupelo.
Henry Moore was the most famous former resident round here, there is a local dentist with a collection of his drawings just up the road from me.
We’ve got a Roman fort here, they found it and covered it with a supermarket car park, just to make sure the site stays well preserved, yup the Co-op car park is more important than ancient archeology.
Well, I was born in Kearney, NE. Near hear was a very important stop for travelers along the Oregon trail. The Mormon Trail went right by here, too. There is a nearby ranch which is precisely 1733 miles from Boston and 1733 miles from San Francisco.
I don’t know as much about Ann Arbor, MI (where I live now). Being as how it’s close to Canada, I believe there is some important Underground Railroad history here. It’s also home to U of M, but so what?
“They call this place the town of Stillwater” was the first recorded reference to a non-Indian settlement in the “Unassigned Lands” of what was to become Oklahoma.
It was part of a cavalry officer’s report after an encounter with the “Boomer” settlement on Christmas Eve, 1884. That’s why it is often said Stillwater is “Where Oklahoma Began”.
Stillwater was the northern edge of the first land run into Oklahoma in 1889. The northern edge of Stillwater borders the “Cherokee Strip” area which was opened to settlement in the land run of 1893.
Well, we have the recently retired “eighth wonder of the world,” the Astrodome, the Port of Houston, NASA and, of course, the Medical Center, but for historical significance, the winner is the San Jacinto Battlefied, where the Texians defeated Santa Ana and won independence. I go out there a half-dozen times a year probably. You ought to check it out if you haven’t before Cess.
The monument and the museum will fill you in on the war, and the battlefield is mostly in the state it was at the time. In the same park is the recently refurbished Battleship Texas (BB-35). Go see how men waged war on the water 90 years ago. It will make an impression.
And when you’re done, you can leave with a ride on the Lynchburg Ferry (it’s free).