Quilter7x

OMG, that is so funny! Can you imagine watching a horse that had "weed" as their "grass"! :lol: :lol:

b.zang

Now how is it that I have heard that molasses story before? It's really a memorable event!

In this area, the memorable event isn't quite so funny. An aluminum smelting plant needed a source of electricity, and a lake nearby was dammed at the outlet. It raised the lake level enough that an entire Indian village was washed away. While they forced everyone to evacuate, they forgot about the people who were away hunting and arrived home to find it gone, and they didn't count on the graveyard releasing the dead. The lake level goes down at some times during the year, and it's fascinating to go walk around the old village area.

Moonpi

My home town (a hamlet) was settled on Henry Hudson's second voyage, although it had long been populated by Native Americans. The ship, Half Moon, carried ballast stones from Europe, a red rock that was used as grave markers. Growing up in the 60's, they were still there, in the "Indian graveyard". Now all that was covered over by houses, and if you don't look quick at the historical marker, you'd never know.

Later, in the mid-to late 1800s, it was known as the Violet growing capital.

Isn't that molasses story the origin of the old saying about "Slow as molasses in January"?

amma

It is really interesting reading these kind of stories :D:D:D

raptureready, I am still chuckling over your story :lol::lol:

lab fairy

Well, I was born in St. Helens, OR. I think we've heard about what happened to that mountain (Mt. St. Helens). It still makes me so sad that Spirit Lake no longer exists. I spent a lot of time there with my grandparents.

I go To The Sea To Breathe

We live in South Dakota. There were a lot of towns that were filled up with water and lakes were formed. The structures of the towns are still there under the water. Divers will go down and explore sometimes. The Sheridan Lake which is not far from Rapid City use to be a town called Sheridan.

raptureready

It is fun to read everyone's stories. I forgot to mention that we used to have an opera house. It was used for various things but once a month or so they would have a "talent" night. People would come from miles around to show off their talents or watch others. One of the families that consistantly won were the Van Dykes---Dick, Jerry and other family members. And the Doug Wilson that used to be on one of those home makeover shows worked for me for a short time while he attended the U of I. Great guy, hard worker. He grew up about 10 miles from here.

sewgull

My hometown is famous for vacationers. We have a beautiful beach and good weather (most of the time). And lots of resturants.

Scissor Queen

There's a town south of where I was born that's the only place in the U.S to have been bombed during WWII. In the town where I was born there the tale of how the county court house was stolen during the middle of the night from the next little town over so the county seat would be there. The little town the court house building was stolen from doesn't exist anymore. There was also a "famous" bank robbery where I was born and it's on the Santa Fe trail so there's lots of history from that too.

raptureready

One more thing in our little town history. About 25 years ago our town doctor had his house remodeled, no one thought anything about it. We didn't realize that he was having bullet proof glass installed. Come to find out he'd gone a little too far over the hill and left his mind somewhere out there. He booby trapped his home, yard, and garage. For several days there was a bomb squad here digging, disarming and disposing. The worst thing was that the yard had some small homemade explosive devises and it was on the direct route to the school. No one got hurt, some people set up a booth nearby selling t-shirts that were printed with a bomb and said, "Homer, Illinois Boomtown, USA" LOL