Katarn07 Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Well, I live in Villa Park, IL, and am lucky enough to actually have some history in my suburb (then why are neighbooring Oakbrook and Elmhurst more famous? grr... Oh wait, none of you care unless you live around me I guess... ) Anyhow, I am privledged to have 2 historic landmarks within Villa Park. The first of which is the Prarie (sp?) Path. It was once a street car route, going from Aurora and Elgin. Now it is a path, meant for walking, biking, jogging, or walking your dogs (regardless of all the signs that warn no dogs, mine go on there every morning with my mom, lucky them, huh?) More importantly and more widely known (not location, probably, but the product made) is the old Ovaltine Factory. Not the new stuff, but back in the 40s and 50s, the old Ovaltine was made right by where I live now. It was recently reconstructed into a apartment complex, Ovaltine Court or somethung like that, but they left the chimmeny as a monument. Any history in and or around your home town??? *** I don't expect there to be stuff to be known throughout the world, let alone your country, but little things like this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel_Spy Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 My home town has a huge history. It was the most important spaniard port in the new world...well in the 18th century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reborn Outcast Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I live right next to where the "Shot Heard Round the World" was shot. The first battle of the Revolution... in the common of my next door town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katarn07 Posted March 11, 2003 Author Share Posted March 11, 2003 See, those are cool. I am afraid that when you get to the UK and stuff, I won't be impressed cause my knowledge of history outside my country (other than WWII) I am no very proficient in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reborn Outcast Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Ah, also, the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revers Ride and Ben Franklins famous speech occured about 20 miles from me. (I think it was his speech about the decration of independence but I'm not sure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunatic Jedi Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I'm about an hour away from San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, along with our nation's only mobile landmarks: the cable cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 i live in the center of wyoming, anything historical here (yellowstone, devils tower, devils gate, independence rock) is what i have in my back yard basically, lots of historical stuff actually, the old prison at laramie is pretty cool, got to go in that for a "school trip", laramie schools are gay though, they don't care enough about their students to take precautions, a tornado 30 miles away and they didn't tell us at ALL, we went up there the next day and we saw all the ripped down trees and stuff like that, kinda made my parents mad, but back to subject, wyoming is full of historical things, just look around and you'll see them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munik Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I live right next to the Erie Canal, and Fort Stanwix in Rome NY. The canal thingy isn't so extraordinary, as it goes through the whole state, but here there are parts of Clintons Ditch that are marked, and you can see the indentation in the earth where it was filled in. There is somewhat of a "living museum" here around a section of the old Canal, with many original buildings moved there and restored, there is a replica of a working canal boat, mules and all, and they give rides on it daily. There are people dressed in period clothes, doing things of the time, etc. My father-in-law works there, and is a big history buff concerning the Erie Canal. He was even on the History Channel explaining some things during a show about the Erie Canal! The same thing happens at Fort Stanwix, period actors and such. The fort is smack in the middle of town, it divides roads and such that they go around it. It's sort of weird, driving by this huge wooden walled fort with revolution soldiers patrolling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTeddyPaul Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I used to live next to the largest ketchp (ketsup take your pick) bottle in the world or was it America. Either way the thing was huuuuge. Only in Illinois. BigTeddyPaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckcsaber Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I live in Virginia (pronounced vuhr-gin-yah if you're a confederate), in the DC Metro area, do there is all that stuff about a 1/2 hour away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvader28 Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I live in the UK...plenty of history here. I come from a town called Hereford, which was originally settled by the Romans (here=army, ford=crossing). It has a cathedral which was originally built in 978 AD. It's on the border with Wales, and was instrumental in keeping the Welsh out of England in the early 1100's. It has a wall around it built in 1578, which still has cannonballs in it where the Parliamentarians shot at it in 1647 during the Civil War. For trivia fiends among you, nearby there's a graveyard with a legend about a black dog....this legend inspired arthur conan doyle to write "The Hound Of the Baskervilles". And also nearby is the main SAS base Sorry to say it, but you yanks have a long way to go before you get REAL history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I live about half a mile away from the centre of London, so take your pick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvader28 Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 woo, another British person Or are you just living over here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Nope, born and raised in good ole London. There are quite a few of us Brits around here, we are not alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breton Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Not too much, but this, this, this and this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reb Starblazer Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I live in "the first colony of the British Empire", near where the first Viking and first British landings on North America took place, near the two oldest settlements in N. America, near the the most eastern point of N. America, near where the first Trans-Atlantic wireless signal was received from Poldhu, England... possibly some other stuff that I can't think of right now or would rather not mention... Anyway, lot's of old landmarks around here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 Originally posted by leXX I live about half a mile away from the centre of London, so take your pick! ill take the globe ^_^ for 100 i live around a bunch of landmarks. ones a landmark church another is a landmarked school. theres even a landmarked slaughterhouse (the place where they kill the cows for your hamburger meat) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pisces Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 Well, I live about 20 minutes away from Canada' first Polish Settlement. Hmm, I think it's Canada's, might just be Ontario's though. I dunno, I'm not Polish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katarn07 Posted March 12, 2003 Author Share Posted March 12, 2003 Those are cool (except Insane, what the heck scools and churches are you talking about?) I think this is my 3rd longest thread! The others being of course Where did Kyle get his powers from (2 pages) Something about Bigfoot (2 pages, my second thread here in the swamp) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adillon Posted March 12, 2003 Share Posted March 12, 2003 i live in philadelphia ... 'nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImmolatedYoda Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 THE BIG CHICKEN!!! sux! thats prolly my closest most well-known landmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedantic Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 I live 15 minutes away from Fort Vancouver (depending on how fast you drive ). Read about it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philocleon Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 In my town we hardly have anything of importance. All we have are some jute factories (they made rope) over by the river and that's it. However, my town is close to Springfield, Massachusetts, which is where basketball was born. Also, Springfield is where Dr. Seuss grew up as a boy. Also, do any of you remember Shay's Rebellion from american history? Well there's a very small mountain range in our area and in that mountain range are the caves where Daniel Shays his his horses. But they're not really caves. More like rock outcroppings. Still, it is pretty cool to see. Also, in the town of South Deerfield we have the main factory for the Yankee Candle company. Any of you in the states have probably been to one of their stores, as yankee is nationwide. If you haven't, just go to their website http://www.yankeecandle.com and find a store in your area and check it out. They sell some nice scented candles there. There's another thing about South Deerfield. During King Phillip's War (one of the wars against the Indians) the town was attacked by Indians. In fact a door from a house of that period still survives, and you can see the marks in it from attempts at breaking it down. In the Berkshire hills there's a bit of history there. There's the town of Stockbridge, home to painter Norman Rockwell. And have any of you heard the song Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie? Well in the town of Lenox is that very restaurant. I haven't been there, but i sure would like to check it out. So my town itself doesn't really have much history, but the area i'm from sure has some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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