· What are some things in your hometown that are part of history?

Answer 1

Plymouth Hoe - Francis Drake vs Spanish Armada
Mayflower Steps - Pilgrim Fathers sailed to USA
Lots of other more recent history as well .. the list goes on

Answer 2

The Lancashire Cotton Famine, 1860-1865.

Answer 3

Peter the Great, Tsar of all the Russia's
Sir Christopher Wren [architect]
King Henry VIII - born Greenwich [a Cockney]
Elizabeth I - born Greenwich [a Cockney]
Tolkien [novelist]
Sir Thomas More [Chelsea suppoter]
William Shakespeare [playwright and owner of ye Globe]
Dr Samuel Johnson [Fleet Street]
Dr Benjam Franklin FRS [his only surviving house in London]
Oscar Wilde [Piccdilly]
Beau Brummel [Mayfair]
Duke of Wellington [Soldier/Statesman]
Charles Dickens [novelist/reformer]
Florence Nightingale [nurse]


The above is but a small token list of some of the multitude of famous folk who have lived in my home town of London.

London being the capital city of both England and the United Kingdom has had a lot of very famous people in it going right back to Roman times. Blimey, the list must be endless!

So much for some of the famous people of the past. We have a total army of famous folk living here right now. Too many to list.

As for history, well, London is now about 2000 years old. A Roman city in fact, so just about every where you look is history.

The Tower of London, St. Pauls Cathedral, The Palace of Westminster [Parliament], Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Selfiridges, Oxford Street, Piccadilly, The Ritz Hotel, Claridges, the Savoy Hotel, Bridge Museum, British Library.

The list of historic sights and people is endless.
"Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner......."

For those posters who are living in small towns way out west, think yourselves lucky. You at least live in the greatest theatre of all time, "The West". We've all been there and we've seen it on TV. It's where real history was made.

Don't believe me, then go and see the movie, it's called "Oklahoma". It's all in there somewhere. Next day go and see "The Big Country" and the day after that "True Grit".
Yeeah!

Here in London no one knows you. In small town America everyone says Hi, Howdy. You'd be lucky to get a smirk here.

Answer 4

Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the American Civil War (War Between the States, War of Northern Aggression, The Late Great Unpleasantness, take your choice) were fired. The Battery, (Where the Ashley River and Cooper River come together to form the Atlantic Ocean. ALso where gun batteries were during ACW ) Rainbow Row (beautiful 17th century buildings in downtown), The Hundley (first submarine), The Citadel ( The Military College of SC dating from 1842), Fort Moultrie (Revolutionary War fame), Gentility and charm as well.

Answer 5

Shreveport

#1 Last capitol of the Confederacy in the American Civil War

#2 Ledbelly developed his music here

#3 Louisiana Hayride headquarters. Such names as Elvis, Hank Sr., Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis played here.

#4 For one year led the world in oil production.

#5 Was primed to be the home of alcohol much like St. Louis and Milwaukee are. But prohibition hit the next year.

Answer 6

There's the Franklin House Inn, where Abe Lincoln once stayed, a confederate prison, and a confederate cemetery. Alton Illinois (where I currently reside) is also the birthplace and final resting place of Robert Wadlow, who's still listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest man who ever lived. It's also the final resting place of Elijah P. Lovejoy, an anti-slavery newspaper crusader who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob and became one of the earliest martyrs in the abolitionist cause. He's buried behind a huge monument, worthy of an Egyptian Pharaoh. John Olin, who was behind Olin Industries and Winchester, was born and bred here. His house still stands on State Street. The Lyman Trumbell House (he was a senator under President Lincoln) still stands on Henry Street too. There are loads of historic building in Alton. The town dates back to 1818. It'd take all day to list 'em all!

Answer 7

Our town was one of the first to use phone prefixes, had first Nuke reactor in Illinois and if I remember correctly it had a major nuke accident which later became the basis for " China Syndrome " movie. At one point in the later 40's, our town was the largest inland grain shipping port.( Hence, our annual Grundy County Corn Festival) Last but not least, the location where a certain fossil known as the " Tulley Monster" was found.

Oh, and we also were one of the stops for explorers LaSalle and Joliet on the Illinois River. The Mazon river fossil beds in our area are known world wide.

Other than that, it used to be a small rural town that I liked alot better before they started referring to us as the far southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Answer 8

San Antonio, Texas has a whole bunch of historical stuff like The Alamo, the old Spanish missions, the Spanish Governor's Mansion, San Fernando Cathedral, and the Gunter (sp?) Hotel where blues legend Robert Johnson recorded most of his recordings.

Answer 9

Vulcan statue. Located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham, AL

The history of Vulcan is deeply tied to Birmingham's roots and its growth into a prominent industrial city. Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge, was originally built in 1904 and has stood as a symbol of Birmingham for over 100 years. After a four-year renovation, Vulcan Park reopened to the public in 2004 and welcomed over 100,000 visitors its first year.

Answer 10

Bybee Pottery, the oldest existing pottery west of the Alleghenies; Fort Boonesboro, home of Daniel Boone; The Wilderness Trail; The Battle of Richmond, KY civil war battle site; Whitehall State Shrine, the former home of 19th century emancipationist Cassius Clay; The Valley View Ferry, one of only a handful of working ferries in the state....just to name a few.