:eek: Alexander J. Cartwright, Joseph Campbell and Martha Root are buried here.
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A friend of mine from Lemont also said something along the lines of Al Capone having hung out there a lot back in the day.
My hometown had the highest suicide rate per capita of any town in the US in the late 70’s.
Also I remember hearing that one of Robert Altman’s movies is set around here, although I can’t quite remember the title.
Um, the Astrodome? NASA?
Not to mention, the grave and house site of the women who inspired Charles Dickens’ character Miss Haversham in Great Expectations (in Newtown) and the grave site of the woman after whom Granny Smith apples were named (on the Northshore). There is a great book that I had when I lived in Sydney that includes all this fascinating little facts.
Where I currently live has the world’s largest peanut butter plant (Jif).
My hometown might be known for a possibly crappy movie in the near future, though only a tiny portion of it was actually filmed there.
Not to mention birthplace of: Lucy Lawless, Sir Edmund Hilary and Rachael Hunter and once site of the Americas cup. (I live here now)
Buck Owens, et al. Nashville West.
Oakies, as in The Grapes of Wrath.
The butt of many comedian’s jokes.
Cockroaches.
And me. 
Peace,
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Also Sir Peter Blake and Bruce McLaren.
Do non-NZers know who they are?
Maybe not Sir Peter Blake (though surely some have), but anyone who has heard of Formula One has heard of Bruce McLaren.
omaha, nebraska
birthplace of president gerald ford and marlon brando (four blocks apart on the same street)
home of omaha steaks international shipping fine aged beef anywhere in the world
home of the college world series
home of warren buffet second only to bill gates as the wealthiest man in the country
location of father flanagan’s boy’s town
the rueben sandwich was invented in the coffee shop of the blackstone hotel on 36th and farnam street
the henry doorly zoo has the largest indoor rain forest in the world
Yes, to the first. He’s a sailor I believe. No to the second.
My town (not where I’m living currently, but my hometown just down the road) is where “Snowflake” Bentley, the first person to photograph a snowflake, lived and worked.
I was born in the city that had the largest unreinforced concrete structure in the world.
My hometown, Rockville MD, is the subject of the REM song (their opinion is right on the money), and is the burial place of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Their graves are just a few miles from Chestnut Lodge, the sanitarium where they used to dry out. Judy Garland also dried out there in her day.
My Undergrad days were in Greensboro NC. Named after General Green who fought the Battle of Guilford Courthouse there during the Revolution.
Now I live in Fort Myers, FL where Thomas Edison and Henry Ford spent their winters. Their combined estate is managed by the city and is one of the main (i.e. only) tourist attractions.
Unfortunately, the only thing most people can name about us is the flap over the Confederate flag.
Flannery O’Connor was not born here but spent most of her life here.
Oliver Hardy also was not born here but grew up here, earning a living as a day laborer, singer and projectionist for the first movie theater in town.
The novel/movie Paris Trout was based on a series of murders that occurred here (the bullet holes are still there).
We were the capitol of Georgia from 1803-1868.
We are the site of what was once the largest mental hospital on Earth. It is mostly abandoned now and has some incredible ruins.
The flag of the Republic of Texas was born here.
We are the hometown of Julia Roberts’s character in Pretty Woman.
Chambersburg, PA was, I believe the only northern town to be burned by Confederate troops during the Civil War. I believe they passed through the town twice, but burned it when they passed through the second time on their way to Gettysburg.
The town also served as John Brown’s headquarters in 1859.
Also, General George Washington himself spent the night here on his way to somewhere of greater interest/importance. The hotel he stayed in survived the Confederate’s Conflagration, I believe, but burned down in the past 10-15 years under possibly suspicious circumstances, IIRC.
That’s certainly possibly. From what I gather from some of my great uncle’s newspaper articles, Lemont was quite a crazy town back in the day. Gunfights and hookers and all sorts of illicit activites.