I'll start I live Worcester which is in south central MA.

We're known for:"Worcester, MA, Birthplace of the Space Age" _-Robert Goddard invented and flew the first rocket here.


Thanks to Harvey Ball we have the smiley face which was invented here in Worcester. He invented it while making an ad for State Mutual Insurance Co. We have a smiley face festival every year

Here's a biggie that many of us are grateful for...The Birth control pill was discovered here at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in the early '50's


In the United States, the first mass-produced Valentines cards were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts

I live in Middletown, Rhode Island, on an island composed of three towns.

Newport is closest to the ocean and is known for hosting past America's Cup Races and for it's elaborate mansions including the Vanderbuilt mansion.

Newport also has a Naval Installation, and is home to the Newport War College. Many military commanders from other countrys have gone there.

I live in Muir,Michigan and we are known for our high water bills Other than that we are just a speck on the map.Must be why we are just a village of 600.They think that speck was left by a fly.

I live near Chicago, you know the city burned to the ground by a cow (so they say)!

Also the Windy City! We have the John Hancock Building, Sears Tower and NOW the Trumph Condo building

I guess Chicago is known for many things

Well I dont know that Turon Ks is known for anything Special, except Maybe the smell of Feed lots as you drive through uggg... some call it the smell of MONEY...NOT ME. just plan Stinky if you ask me LOL

Our town has the old jail where Jesse and Frank James were held as prisioners. It's still up and every year in the fall, the people of my town throw a haunted house for the kiddos. I dunno if any of you have seen the movie Childs Play 3 but that's a movie that was filmed in my town. The military school in that movie is now closed down but we have events on that property (childrens baseball games the YMCA and the town's yearly festival).

Boonville is the oldest town in Central Missouri and is located in the very heart of the historic Boon's Lick Country. It was settled in February, 1810 by a party of pioneers which included Hannah Cole, a widow, and her family of nine children and Stephen Cole, her brother-in-law, with his wife, Phoebe, and their five children. The Coles were the first white settlers to locate on the south side of the Missouri River west of St. Louis.

The early period of Boonville's history was occasionally marked by the violence of skirmishes with the Sac and Fox Indians who roamed this area before their relocation in 1814. When the Indians became hostile in 1812, the Coles moved to the safety of the forts on the north side of the river. When they returned to the south shore in 1814 they fortified Hannah Cole's cabin because of its excellent location on the river bluffs and its access to fresh water. After 1814 other settlers soon came to build their homes in and around her fort and, in July, 1816, the fort became the site of the first county court for Howard County.

Boonville, named for Daniel Boone, became the center of the Boon's Lick Country, an area where the soil was reputed to be the most fertile in the United States Territory. It also was near the intersection of ancient Indian Trails whose unchanging importance to centuries of travelers - from the Boon's Lick Trail to the later Santa Fe Trail -has been preserved by the modern interstate highways of today.

Boonville's early history was recounted first in A History of Cooper County. Missouri, written and published in 1876 by Henry C. Levens and Nathaniel M. Drake. This was in compliance with a resolution of Congress and by Proclamation of the President of the United States commemorating the centennial of America. Much of this early material is based upon personal recollections of surviving children of Hannah Cole, particularly her youngest son, Samuel Cole. The Levens and Drake history is still considered authoritative for this period.

Boonville was laid out as a town in 1817 by Asa Morgan for whom Morgan Street is named, and Charles Lucas. The first lots were sold in 1819 and recorded by a Mr. A. Fuller as bringing "a fabulous price". A donation by Morgan and Lucas of 50 acres secured Boonville as the county seat for Cooper County, formed in 1818 and named for Colonel Benjamin Cooper who had led the Coles into the Boon's Lick area.

Boonville's position on the Missouri River, highway of the frontier, brought settlers and merchandise to its wharves and caused rapid development of a prosperous river trade. Situated at a point where the Ozark uplands meet the western prairies, the Santa Fe Trail and other overland commercial routes were opened to the south and southwest. Boonville merchants vied with Boonville fur trappers and traders, explorers, soldiers and educators in opening the western empire for settlement. A roster of Boonville's early citizens reads like a "Who's Who" of the frontier and includes such famous people as George Graham Vest, David Barton, William Ash and George Caleb Bingham.

Boonville was incorporated by the State of Missouri on February 10,1839 and enjoyed a continuous and prosperous growth during the 30 years preceding the Civil War. With the outbreak of conflict, Boonville's strategic location on the Missouri River made it a pawn of opposing forces. On June 17,1861, a month before Bull Run, the First Battle of Boonville was fought one mile east of the city. Federal troops, commanded by General Nathaniel Lyon, defeated a force of Missouri State Confederate troops led by Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson. Military strategists consider it had an important bearing on keeping Missouri in the Union and the Missouri River under Union control. A marker on the courthouse lawn, erected by the John A. Hayn Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, commemorates the Battles of Boonville, June 17 and September 13, 1861, and the "capture of Boonville" by General Sterling Price's Confederate Army on October 14,. 1864.

Where I lived for over 50 years was called the "Heart of the Billion Dollar Coal Field". Mostly known for the Hatfield-McCoy feud and the Matewan Mine Wars. Where I live now is known for the Rowan Co. Wars. Is it just me or does there seem to be a pattern showing here.

Gramercy, LA - where they make Zapp's Potato Chips!!