Your home town's claim to fame

[The Keeper]

I was born in the city of Springfield; in the commonwealth of Massachusetts of the United States. The major claims to fame are:

1) They are the birthplace of basketball.

2) The armory is well known, and produced the first American-made musket. Also where Shays' Rebellion took place.

3) I believe the first accusation of witch craft in the 1600's happened there

However most people in the surrounding area know it as the place where nobody wants to live.

At the moment, I live in the nearby city of Holyoke. Their major claim to fame is that volleyball was invented there. I can live with that. I always preferred volleyball.

 

[Issurru]

My hometown of Lanigan (Saskatchewan) is known for its potash mine (that it essentially annexed from another town called Guernsey which is located about 5-10 minutes closer to the mine) which I think is famous for being the largest single shaft mine in Canada (I thought it might be in North America or maybe with world, but I learned that at least ten years ago so don't quote me on this)

As well as if anyone has head of Wade or Sheldon Brookbank in the NHL, yeah my oldest brother grew up with them. It was kinda cool

 

[Macgyvercas]

My home town of Union City, Pa made it to number one on a David Letterman top 10 list some years back.

For what?

Town with the highest teen pregnancy rate of the country....

Hey, you're not that far from me. I'm in Erie, PA.

We have Presque Isle State Park, and this is where Oliver Hazard Perry's fleet was built in the summer of 1813.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

My hometown is famous for an old cheese factory and a folk-festival.

Yeh it sucks here..

 

[thejayk]

Im from Aberdeen, Washington Kurt Cobain was born here

 

[Nargleblarg]

Famous retired MLB player Darryl Strawberry lives like 50 or so yards from my house, I can see it from my porch. Ya not much other than that though.

 

[SovietX]

Ormeau, Queensland, Australia.

Nothing ever happens, nothing has ever happened and nothing ever will happen.

 

[ToxicSpill]

Mesquite, TX. The town where Valve first started developing games. That's it really.

 

[wottabout]

Um, we supposedly had a tree that was planted during the American Revolution, although I had never heard of it until it fell down in a wind storm and a friend mentioned it to me. Otherwise, I got nothing.

 

[Aprilgold]

Westminister, Colorado.

Has a sword fighting group that is basically wrestling in medieval times with weapons. I personally work for them.... Also, I live here.

 

[Dranae]

George Washington apparently called it the most beautiful place he had ever seen!

And... uh...

um...


Yeah, that's about it.

 

[General Vengeance]

Murder Capital of Canada, and being a shithole. Edmonton, or as we like to call it Deadmanton.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Steubenville, OH... is known for Dean Martin, Traci Lords, and Jimmy "The Greek". Not known for anything else other than people. And really corrupt police.

 

[justnotcricket]

Being situated on top of 50 volcanoes, some of which are only dormant... =D

 

[ecoho]

cheyenne wyoming famous for two things
1) we hold the largest outdoor rodeo in the world.
and
2)we are by far the smallest capital in the US.

 

[EBHughsThe1st]

Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We were once the oil capital of the world.
And we had some race riots..
And a giant ass ice storm..
And we're the 8th fattest city..

But we have some good food.
And Bill Hader came from here...

And apparently Bill Goldberg, undefeated wrestler...
That's pretty cool.

 

[Dan Steele]

the bosten tea party started where I used to live, now I live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere menifee C.A, which only bragging rights is 8th most teenage suicides because of anti gay bullying instigated by the local church. I know fun.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

My town went through a period before the civil war where it didn't have a name. It was sometimes called "Hell Town" because of all the crime and trouble that went on in it. fast forward to the civil war and a regiment of soliders (its northern va so i can't rember if it was Union or Confederate that was in the town) were running drills but the commanding officer realized that none of his men knew there left from there right so he pointed to an oak tree and said "Front, the royal oak." and proceed to show them left and right. Someone over heard this and now the town is called "Front Royal"

...yup my town got its name because a group of people didn't know right from left.

 

[Naal]

Fullerton, California. It's where the show "Leave it to Beaver" was set in.

 

[NBSRDan]

All I know is American Beauty was filmed here.