History in my back yard.

[Greylock]

Lessee...

Martin Luther King assassinated, Rock & Roll invented, country blues evovled into something real different, first modern grocery stores and motels (Piggly Wiggly and Holiday Inn), Tim McCarver played minor league ball, Jeff Buckley shed his mortal coil, Machine Gun Kelly was caught...

Other stuff I can't think of right now.

 

[Dagger75]

Lets see 30 miles

Terry Shivo
Jessica Lundy
That little girl getting hand cuffed in school

Outback Steakhouse was founded here

Same with Hooters

 

[Mercule]

Grant wood was born near here.

Um... Iowa is really boring.

Doh! Herbert Hoover was born not far from here.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Mainly the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

The site of the Sit-In at the Woolworth's is in Greensboro. They're remodeling it into a museum.

 

[Michael Morris]

That's a tough one. I know very little about Richmond, having lived here only since October. I think Edgar Allen Poe lived here for a town, or was born here maybe. There is a museum here for him.


I grew up in a small town in Arkansas named Dover. Dover is famous for Ronald Gene Simmons - a mass murderer. He murdered his whole family (one of the boys, Eddie, was in my class) and murdered a few people in town before they finally caught him. He was eventually electrocuted.

That's about all its known for.

Richmond is within a day's drive of many of the most important battles of the civil war, and not a few occured right on the outskirts of the city - Seven Pines, Cold Harbor most significant among them.

 

[nerfherder]

Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb in Menlo Park.

Joseph Swan invented the incandescent light bulb in Newcastle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan



Cheers,
Liam

 

[CarlZog]

Providence, RI:
George M. Cohan was born two blocks from where I live now.
H.P. Lovecraft lived five blocks away.
I haven't been here long enough to learn a lot more than that.

Before we moved to Providence we were in the North End of Boston, a few doors down from Paul Revere's house, and about a quarter mile from the site of the Great Molasses Flood. Plus all the other famous Boston stuff..

Carl

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I think Edgar Allen Poe lived here for a town, or was born here maybe.

When I walk out the front of the library I work in, I can see the room that Poe lived in when he attended the University of Virginia. There is a bust of him in the main hall of the library too.

Charlottesville, VA
Home of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe (James Madison is not far away either, but probably beyond 30 miles). If there is anything that can be related to Thomas Jefferson, it's probably got a place in this town somewhere.

 

[diaglo]

If there is anything that can be related to Thomas Jefferson, it's probably got a place in this town somewhere.

1000 empty wine bottles.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

1000 empty wine bottles.

http://www.jeffersonvineyards.com/