What's Your Town's Claim to Fame?

Millville, NJ - The 'Holly City'. We have a ton of Holly trees. It's also referred to as 'Glasstown' since we had a bunch of glass factories at one time.
 
Noah Zark said:
This area of north central PA is the "world capital" of the powdered metal and MIM industries. The process was invented here in 1928, an offshoot of the molded carbon products industry -- the same powder compaction and sintering (baking) processes used to make battery electrodes and DC motor brushes was adapted to make oiless bronze bushing type bearings at first, and now to make every gear used in power tools, engine timing gears and chain sprockets, engine oil pumps, and automatic transmission planetary carriers and friction plates.

And MIM gun parts . . .

Noah
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Wouldn't happen to be Latrobe and Kennametal? Worked for them for almost 20 years, until they closed the Detroit plant.
 
Some of the most magnificent mountains in the world, the world record for snowfall, and a drunk oil tanker captain named Hazlewood.
 
We used to have to world record of the worlds longest hot dog. IIRC it was broken a while ago. My mom used to tell me stories about it wrapping around the track at the local university.
 
A fairly big zoo...

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And steel houses!

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There are 19 Steel Lustron houses in Brookfield, IL. They were designed by a Swede after WWII as affordable housing...they didn't take off. ;)
 
Dingmans Ferry PA. use to be a real town. They had stores, gas stations, bars and every thing a small town would want. In the early 70's the Federal Government planned to build the Tocks Island Dam thus flooding this part of the Delaware River. Most all property was condemed and torn down.

The project was stuck down in court and was never built. The land for the lake became the Delaware Water Gap NRA.

This was a good thing in a way because it created a large wooded area along the banks of the river on PA and NJ. Lots of wildlife and pretty mountians etc. I just got back from taking my dogs for a hike on their favorite trail. Ity's very nice on this warm spring day.
 
An excavation through a mountain that rerouted the 4 lane highway, the big sandy river and the csx railroad out of a small flood prone town. It is 2nd only to the Panama Canal in size. Home of Hillybilly days on April 17 th you'all come
 
LAKOTA169 said:
Wouldn't happen to be Latrobe and Kennametal? Worked for them for almost 20 years, until they closed the Detroit plant.
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No, it's the Elk Co / Clearfield Co area. At one time there were almost 30 powdered metal manufacturers in the area, and the Metal Powder Industries Federation figured that 40% of the world's P/M parts were made here, starting with the original oil-less bronze bushings in 1928.

Noah
 
Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin...northern Wisconsin...54545 zip.

Home of Little Bohemia tavern (still open)...site of John Dillinger & Baby Face Nelson shootout with the FBI...April 22, 1934. The bad guys escaped later to be killed in Chicago. Baby Face Nelson still holds the record of killing 3 FBI agents.

Johnny Depp 2009 movie "Public Enemies" was filmed at this original shootout site.
 
1. Ronald Reagons Boyhood Home - Dixon, Illinois
2. Home of the Dixon Petunia Festival - Dixon, Illinois
3. John Deere Historic Site - Grand Detour, Illinois - Where the Legend Began!
 
My hometown had the original ROTEL cannery. They canned tomatoes with green chilies for us locals for many years - then in the 1960's they got famous and sold out to one of the big conglomerates.

We could buy unlabled, dented cans for pennies a case. You never knew what would be for supper - sauerkraut, black-eyed peas, beets or tomatoes w/ green chilies.

RO*TEL - RO*TEL History
 
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