Fun facts about where you live!

[Lindsey]

So I've been thinking about starting this thread for awhile I know where most of you live, but I don't know much about them! So I thought it would be cool for us all to share some cool things about the places where we live! You don't have to say what town or city you're in if you're not comfortable with that, you can even just share some facts about your state or area in general. Try googling where you live and see what you can learn and share!

[DianaB]

This will be an interesting thread. Thanks for thinking of it, Lindsey!

The community where I live has two mounds, one on south and one on the west sides of town. The west mound isn't anything special but on the south mound there's a playground and you can see wonderful views of the town. The community has raised money for a huge flag to be placed on the south mound that can be seen for miles. There's also a large display that was made in the depression era that has lights on it. At Easter you can see a cross and at Christmas you can see a star. The display turns and, again, can be seen for miles. I think that our south mound is something that everyone who comes here should see.

http://www.city-data.com/picfilesv/picv19446.php

Some other interesting things in my community--

http://www.fredoniachamber.com/page3.html

This is a house that I lived in when I was in high school. Glen and I had our wedding reception here. It was so beautiful on the inside and really wasn't as big as it looks.

http://www.neodygrads.com/images/his...0Residence.jpg

[Lindsey]

That house is beautiful Diana! And I love the Victorian house picture on the Chamber of Commerce site.
The whole area looks so beautiful. I love places with a lot of history!

[DianaB]

I was in that house years ago for a meeting. I remember that the ceilings were very high in it. A banker in town lives in it now and it is a very beautiful home! It's one of the few homes that we have on the National Register.

There's a home that's to the right of this house that's considered a haunted house. It has a sad story that goes with it of a man who fell in love with a woman and had the house built for her to live in after they were married but while on their honeymoon she didn't feel comfortable using the bathroom anywhere and she got very ill and died. The man never came back to the house to live. The people who live there now have done some extensive remodeling and they say that she roams the hallways of the house. She also turns the lights on and off among other things. I got to see that house on a house tour that we have once a year.

[Lindsey]

That is so creepy! There are a few haunted houses here whose stories are published in a book I have. I've only seen one of them in person, it's on the riverbank and not far from where I live.

[Janet]

There is really nothing here in Frankfort. We have a railroad and a Roundhouse (where they turn the railroad cars around to head another direction...very very primative), we have a couple motels, town square, Wal Mart, nice schools, John Deere Implement and a couple other implement dealers..lol..we're a farming community. Nothing unusual to have combines or tractors driving through town or even being driven to the store. Couldn't find any really good pictures to link to. I'll keep trying though. Oh we do have a few festivals in our county, such as the Hotdog Festival, Kirk's Crossing in Kirklin, Summer's End Festival in Rossville (this weekend), and also this weekend is the first festival for this little burg of a place (sneeze and you miss it) called Jefferson.

[Tink]

My great grandparents were some of the early settlers in our little community just prior to 1900. They were Norwegian immigrants and farmers.
Coral City got it's name because while digging a dam on the north side of the creek, some odd-looking rock was found. One of the workers jokingly convinced the others that it was coral, and they thought it was funny enough that they decided to name the village after it.

Coral City has at most, 100 people living in it. Many of them, like myself, grew up here, left for a time and have moved back. Several occupy their old family homes and a few are carrying on the family businesses. I live within yelling distance of my childhood home, my grandpas retirement home and the 2-room country school I attended in my early years.

We are in farming country. We have a very strong Scandinavian influence, with German, Polish and Dutch well mixed in. We have a large Amish community surrounding us, and as a rule get along very well. We hold a lot of community events to raise money for the Amish schools, families who have had losses due to death or fire, etc... and when times get rough pull together for the benefit of all.

In our whole county, which consists of 29,000 people, we average one murder per year. Most often it is domestic violence or the result of a drunken brawl. The average home price here is less than $100,000 and median income is $43,000 per household so we are not a rich area by any stretch of the imagination.

Our most famous citizens have been Colonel Larson who was a national champion sharp shooter for many years and country singer Joe Diffy. Probably the most well known person who lives here is Ted Nuggent, who has an old farmstead and loves hunting our rolling hills.

[pope1982]

This is my hometown *sigh*. http://www.ci.southbridge.ma.us/gallery.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge,_Massachusetts

Now I live about 10-15 minute drive from down town Baltimore. It took several years for this simple small town girl to get used to fast pace city life...

I am going through it all over again since I just came back from a trip back there lol

[Janet]

Here are some stats about Frankfort... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfort,_Indiana

When I get some pictures taken, I will post them.