Interesting things about your town

[Xollence]

I had to do a paper for my New Jersey history class on my town. I found so many interesting things.

1) The Baylor Massacre took place here, which was during the Revolutionary War.

http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/view/fi2b9e073d
http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/view/fice1a3d94
http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/view/fi34661cff
http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/view/fi08ddae4a
http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/view/fi92791267
http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/view/fib2a4fce4

2) My town only had 1 traffic light until about 5 years ago when our town got another one. That fact on was jeopardy when I was a kid.

3) My town only has about 20,000 people but has 7 dry cleaners on the same exact block. I've never even seen this many dry cleaners in Manhattan.

4) Bill Maher grew up and went to school in my town.

Anyways post anything unusual or interesting about your town.

[Newtyped]

apparantly theres a gay ghetto here o_O (i dont live in the gay ghetto)
http://www.newhavencvb.org/base/cont...do&sub2=&sub3=
and heres a thing of history
http://www.new-haven-ct-relocation.c...FUAbFQodqkNZcQ
of course they are lieing about the beutiful buildings, it looks like crap here ^^;;

[IFHTT]

About the only thing of interest in my town was the fact that former president Bill Clinton graduated from high school here. Other than that, there's nothing special at all about this crap hole.

Edit: @ Heretic below: Yep Hot Springs, Arkansas.

[The Heretic Azazel]

You live in Arkansas?

Anyway Sam Walton of Wal-Mart fame's first 5 cent store was built in my little town of 7000

[Newtyped]

bush went to college in my city -.-
of course everyone here knows he got c's

[Deadfire]

Canadian city, and the capital of the province of Manitoba. Located in Western Canada, Winnipeg plays a prominent role in transportation, finance, manufacturing, agriculture and education. It is known as the Gateway to the West.

The city is located near the geographic centre of North America. It lies in a flood plain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers and started around the point now commonly known as The Forks. It is protected from flooding by the Red River Floodway. Winnipeg is the province's largest city with a population of 619,544 people (2001 Canadian Census). The Winnipeg Census Metropolitan Area (which includes Winnipeg and surrounding rural municipalities has a population of 706,900 (Statistics Canada, July 1, 2005 estimate).

The climate in Winnipeg is very extreme; overall, it is one of the coldest large cities in the world, with temperatures averaging below freezing from mid-November through much of March (and most nights below −24 °C (-11.2 °F) in mid-winter), although from May to September temperatures often reach 30 °C (86 °F) and sometimes exceed 35 °C (95 °F). The city receives more precipitation in the forms of both rain and snow than other Prairie cities, but the weather is characterized year-round by an abundance of sunshine.

Sir William Stephenson (aka Intrepid), the spy, and man on whom the character of James Bond is based was born here. Also Winnie-the-Pooh or the Winnipeg Bear has named after the city

[Vegechan]

http://www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/

Yeah.

[Assertn]

http://www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/

Yeah.

Cecilia Brauer Playing the Armonica. Wow....look at her go!

[Alhuin]

(This isn't exaclty my town, but close enough) I believe the most interesting thing here is Waverly Hills Sanatorium; or, the Tuberculosis hospital.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_Hills_Sanatorium
http://ghostsagogo.com/waverly.html

Basically, the hospital was a place to quarentine all those who had or possibly had TB. At one point, the death toll was so great that getting rid of the bodies was very difficult. So they built a giant (100 ft I believe) body chute to throw the dead bodies (and sometimes the still-living) into to hold until a train came by and picked them up. The chute was named the Death Tunnel (which, coincidentally, is the name of the recent DVD released based on Waverly). Room 502 in Waverly is supposed to be the most haunted room, on account of a nurse hanging herself in the room. In actuallity though, the entire place is equally haunted.

The show "Ghost Hunters" (shown on Sci-Fi) recently did a segment on Waverly. Now, the goal of the Ghost Hunters is not to say something is haunted... but to say that something is NOT haunted. They use many technological means and personal and logical reasoning to support the fact that a place is not haunted. They've maybe only labeled 3 or 4 places as haunted. After going through Waverly, and having everyone experience a paranormal encounter, they rated Waverly as among the top haunted sites in the world. They straight-up agreed that that place was definitely haunted.

Tours are held every Halloween through Waverly. A local band (Incursion) actually named themselves after a room in Waverly (previously Incursion 502) but dropped the 502 due to too much confusion. Anyways, I thought it was real interesting that I live 30 minutes away from this site... and it's ranked among the top haunted places in the world. Pretty freaky.

[gr3atfull]

Well, as you might all now, I live in Montréal.

It is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in Québec. Also, its the second biggest french city in the world. Plus, it hosts Juste pour Rire (Just for Laughs) comedy festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, the Montreal World Film Festival, and many others.Expo 67 was there and so was the summer olympics in 1976 (that was where the romanian girl named Nadia Comaneci got 7perfect 10s and won three gold medals in gymnastic). It is the city where like 95% of the population loves hockey. In fact, it also has the oldest canadian hockey team which is the most successful clubs in all of North American sports history, the Canadiens.

[Stoopider]

The food... and more food.

[Xollence]

Well, as you might all now, I live in Montréal.

It is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in Québec. Also, its the second biggest french city in the world. Plus, it hosts Juste pour Rire (Just for Laughs) comedy festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix, the Montreal World Film Festival, and many others.Expo 67 was there and so was the summer olympics in 1976 (that was where the romanian girl named Nadia Comaneci got 7perfect 10s and won three gold medals in gymnastic). It is the city where like 95% of the population loves hockey. In fact, it also has the oldest canadian hockey team which is the most successful clubs in all of North American sports history, the Canadiens.

I love Montreal. I used to go there every year when I was little for 9 years straight. I don't remember much except for this really good steak I had.