Your Hometown

Oh yea, a guy from the new season of survivor is from my town. I watched like 10 mins of it, the guys annoying as hell.

Mushroomhead

 

Apu wrote: Fredericksburg, Virginia. Very famous civil war battlefields, not to mention the fact that it was close to the center of DC and Richmond. Both the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Battle of Fredericksburg. George Washington's family lived across the river that I live on. Thats about it.

Fredericksburg is a pretty neat little city, I go there on weekends to Central Park. We usually go to Bailey's Grill and Pub, they have some good food, not to mention I just like the bar. Never really went to any of the historical sites though, are they any good?

Edited by PaiNTbALLfReNzY - 12 February 2008 at 8:28am

Omaha, NE

Shub wrote: Somerset, PA. It was in the news a few years ago. Shanksville was where the fourth plane crashed on 9/11. The next summer, we had the "9 for 9" frenzy when nine miners got trapped underground and subsequently rescued. Somerset, PA and the surrounding area is notable for a lot of colonial history. The Whiskey Rebellion happened here, and George Washington passed through here as a soldier in the French & Indian War.

My junior and senior year I played in the Windber Rotary basketball tournament. My coach is originally from Windber. My girlfriend's aunt, uncle, and cousins live in Somerset.

If you're ever up for a search, check the memorial wall for a "Lakeview Basketball" beanie. I put it on there last year when we visited.

ANARCHY_SCOUT wrote: I Arlington Heights is known for Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million,

You're really close to me.

I live about 5 minutes from Paytons house.

Charleston, WV

It's the largest city (metropolitan population of over 300,000 people) as well as the capitol city of West Virginia. First established by Col George Clendenin as 'Fort Lee' at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers, it eventually became a major salt production center, the largest in the US until after the Civil War. The first brine wells in the US were sunk there in the late 1700's and the first natural gas well soon followed. The discovery of the abundant coal fields in the area were a result of the need for a fuel source for evaporating the brine into salt. The battle of Charleston (1862) was fought between 5,000 Confederate troops and a similar number of Federal troops which resulted in the confederate occupation of the city for the following 6 weeks. After that point, the Federal forces, realizing that Charleston was the sole inland salt-producing region of the south, returned with over 10,000 troops and occupied Charleston and the other salt-producing areas of the Kanawha valley and it's confluence with the Ohio essentially depriving the south of it's ability to provide salt for curing and preserving it's food which helped to disrupt the supply chain of the armies of the Confederacy as well as deprive the south's few industries the means to make gun-powder. Federal control of Charleston also ensured the needed coal to fuel the steel furnaces in Wheeling, WV and Pittsburgh, PA.

After the civil war, Charleston faded in importance due to the construction of the Erie canal and it's ability to provide salt to the west via the great lakes (until this time it was floated down the Kanawha on flat-boats and then up or down the Ohio river) It wasn't until the outbreak of WWI that Charleston would become important yet again in the matters of industry. The need for chlorine and caustic acid for use in both chemical and conventional warheads. Continued manufacturing and chemical growth occurred with the outbreak of WWII. The railroad system in place for delivery of salt, coal, and chemicals as well as the now navigable Kanawha River made it the ideal place to build the largest synthetic rubber plant in the nation at that time. Several munitions and weapons factories again located to the region due to the close resources and transportation network. In the 1940's after the war, Charleston saw even more economic development due to Eisenhower's decision to join interstates 77, 79, and 64 in the city's center. The building of Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport also brought focus to the town as it was one of the first local airports built for general and commercial aviation outside of the major metropolitan areas.

Famous people from CRW:
* Actress Jean Carson
* Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers
* Actress Conchata Ferrell
* The classical composer George Crumb was born in Charleston.
* Alias star Jennifer Garner was born in Houston, but moved with her family to Charleston as a young child and grew up there, graduating from the city's George Washington High School.
* Televangelist T. D. Jakes was born and raised in the adjacent city of South Charleston. His ministry was based in the suburban community of Cross Lanes before he moved to Dallas in 1996.
* Soap opera actress Lesli Kay who has appeared on As the World Turns, General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful.
* Former Major League Baseball player and current sportscaster John Kruk was born in Charleston, but grew up in Keyser in the state's Eastern Panhandle.
* Extreme metal band Byzantine formed and still based in Charleston.
* Actress Ann Magnuson
* Country singer Kathy Mattea was born in South Charleston to parents who lived in Cross Lanes. She lived in Cross Lanes throughout her childhood, graduating from Nitro High School.
* Would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore was born in Charleston.
* National Football League player Randy Moss grew up in Rand, adjacent to Malden, graduating from the now-defunct DuPont High School nearby.
* Creator of Droodles and television personality Roger Price.
* Civil rights activist Rev. Leon Sullivan was born in Charleston.
* For a time, Booker T. Washington, the writer, educator, and early civil rights leader, lived in Malden, just upriver from Charleston.
* Jerry West NBA superstar in Chelyan.
* Miami Heat point guard Jason Williams, who grew up in Belle in the same vicinity, was a high-school teammate of Moss.
* Charles Manson and his followers lived in St. Albans, a town which comprises part of the metropolitan area before their move to California and infamous acts performed there.

One of the home towns of of Rod Brindamour 


Edited by .636 - 12 February 2008 at 7:03pm

Orange County.

The most badass county there is.

That's all.

I'm from Montreal.

Home of modern canada, and the last safe haven for english quebecers.

Too much other stuff to list.

And to piss other canuck off..... VIVE LE QUEBEC LIBRE!