Odd hometown history

Home of the first Arbor Day;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodus_(town),_New_York

I was born in Baltimore but moved back to my parents home in SW PA when I was 2. Lived near Irwin, PA (35 miles SE of Pittsburgh) until I graduated from college in 1966. I moved to Frederick, MD to start teaching and have lived here ever since. So I consider Frederick my home.

Frederick has so much history I still don't know all of it. Some highlights are:

Site of a POW camp for Hessian soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
Tons of Civil War history, some significant battles were fought nearby, local banks paid the Confederates $200,000 to keep them from burning the town, the home of Barbara Fritchie.
Also most of the churches, schools, etc were used as hospitals during the Civil War. And the National Museum of Civil War Medicine is here.
Home of numerous famous people including John Hanson (first president of what would become the USA), and Francis Scott Key author/composer of the Star Spangled Banner(in fact his original handwritten version is on display in City Hall today).

Atlantic City NJ was the home of many world firsts

Worlds first airport.- Bader Field. Worlds First boardwalk
Worlds largest Pipe Organ
The Steel Pier was the home to the famous Diving Horses

beans wrote: Toledo's definitely an odd city....

Truth.