- Its not about my hometown, but where I currently live. Each city in this country were to be made into individual countries. They would have been the smallest countries with only a few miles big. The ruler of the time decided against it. The country was occupied by colonial British.
- Its the only country in the middle east to have an enclave within an enclave.
Where I'm from (and where I work), my IT department committed fraud over the course of several years and got caught. That was my boss and his boss.
it's in our city magazine. Rockville-Man-Faces-Up-to-20-Years-in-Cystic-Fibrosis-Foundation-Fraud-Scheme/
The First Battle of Bull Run near Centreville was the first major land-based confrontation of the Civil War and was also the largest and bloodiest battle in United States history up to that point!
Before the English settled the area that became Brookfield, Connecticut, it was inhabited by the Wyantenuck and Paugusset Native Americans, members of the Algonquin Federation
My hometown, Wright City, was formerly known as Bismark. The name was changed because of anti-German sentiments. The new name honored the first casualty from the war from that town, William Wright.
Manchester by the sea, MA was renamed in 1989 to .... ( wait for it ) Manchester by the sea ( from simply Manchester).
One of my ancestors was reportedly burned as a witch in the late 1600s here. The town next door is Salem which tends to be more well known for witches and all.
Stockton was founded by Captain Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F. Stockton, and it was the first community in California to not have a name of Spanish or Native American origin is the birth place of the world renowned Caterpillar Tractor. Count me in.
blackbeard (the pirate) had a hideout home with numerous secret escape tunnels on the albemarle sound , also interesting thing about my hometown is that edward snowden was born here and grew up here as a child.
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