What is your city, county or area best know for?

[willowstreetguzziguy]

Groundhog Day was actually filmed in Woodstock, IL.
https://www.locationshub.com/blog/2013/10/26/about-those-famous-groundhog-days-filming-locations

So glad i found that out, otherwise i would have been in for a big letdown traveling to Punksatauny.

[Kent in Upstate NY]

Washington County, New York. Center of the colored slate industry, dairy farms, lots of early American history and the best milk in New York. (Battenkill Valley Creamery).

[guzzisteve]

Barrow Co., GA is famous for the Ten Commandments mounted on a wall inside the old courthouse(supposed to be not permitted). They got around the law by renting that wall to someone else. When my wife and I got married I got a pic of us next to the Commandments.
DeKalb Co, IL (where I spent most my life) famous for the Ag, DeKalb Ag. It is pronounced with the 'L'. There is a DeKalb Co., GA but here they pronounce it DeKaab.

[dcardo021]

El Paso, Texas. Mexican food, green Chile, and dead bodies in Juarez. Cowboy boots, and the 1st Thanksgiving in the U.S. take that Plymouth, lol

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[Texas Turnip]

Lindale, Texas is the home for country music star Miranda Lambert and her gift store. There used to be a big cannery in town when this area was covered with blackberries and blueberries. Almost all gone as no one wants to work to pick them. Sad.

Tex

[Gliderjohn]

Tex,
Are you familiar with progressive country singer Kacey Musgrave? She grew up in Golden which appears to not be much north of Lindale.
GliderJohn

[PilotJet]

Marlborough, Mass.... A couple of New Brew Pubs that were supposed to open a while ago....Also, Gillette's Castle is a Great Ride in the Summer....or Fall when it gets Cold. Also, Deefield River on the Mowhawk Trail (Route 2) is Great Ridin!  Great Foliage This Year!

[Shorty]

Western Pa:   Sports greats: Namath, Ditka, Dorsett, Marino, Montana, Francona.  Birth of the steel industry, the oil industry, the American labor movement. Busiest Corporate airport in USA. First public radio station and TV station (KDKA) Pioneers in heart/organ  transplants. We were also the first group to rebel against the federal govt. (Whiskey Rebellion, 1791-94, failed).

Tulsa area:  Race riots. Oil capital. The Tulsa Sound (music)   Largest population of Native Americans in USA. Drunk rednecks.

[stubbie]

Perth Western Australia. A beautiful city, great weather most of the time, white sandy beaches and home of Australia 2. The first yacht to steal the Americas Cup from you Yanks (er Americans  ) in 1983.

[kingoffleece]

Shorty,
You forgot Jim Kelly!

[Shorty]

Shorty,
You forgot Jim Kelly!

Never hoid of him   

[Paul Brooking]

Adelaide

Magnificent Wine
Great food
Sensational Motorcycle roads
Great Beaches
Gateway to the Outback
Bizarre Serial Killers  ............ 

[apex1397]

Latrobe Pa.  Hometown of Fred Rodgers,Arnold Palmer, Latrobe Specialty Steel, Kennametal Corp.  Birthplace of the Banana Split. Former home of Latrobe Brewing Co. makers of Rolling Rock Beer.

[Dukedesmo]

Pork Pies... 

[kingoffleece]

"A link with the 33".
A few will get it.

[severely]

Hey 'Ya old Jayhawker, Have you heard of the Freedom Frontier area? It's a string of museums all along the Mo-Kan boarder about that little skirmish ya'll had with Quantrill
http://www.freedomsfrontier.org/

Makes me want to watch Outlaw Josie Wales 

   We also have some BBQ around these parts. You might know of the James/Younger boys; Martha "Calamity Jane" Canary; Wyatt Earp; "Bloody Bill" Anderson, to name a few.

[Zoom Zoom]

An interesting thread indeed!

We too have a large population of Amish. Plaques tout it as being the fourth largest Amish settlement in the world. A nearby county in the Northeast corner of the state has the greatest number of covered bridges of any county in Ohio. One of the most recent is over 600 feet long and is the longest multi span bridge in Ohio.

Cleveland has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The phrase Rock and Roll was coined here by Alan Freed who is buried here. Cleveland is also home to the USS Cod, a WW2 Gato class sub. Three of the four engines have been restored to running condition and were built by GM in their Cleveland diesel plant. The Cod is known for performing the only international sub to sub rescue when they rescued the Dutch off a reef when their sub, (the O 19), ran aground on the reef in early July of 1945. It  is the only U.S. submarine that has not had stairways and doors cut into her pressure hull for public access. It is still afloat and moored here. Nearby is the William C Mather, a 600 foot ore boat built in 1925. It is accessible for touring and is part of the Great Lakes Science Center, which is also worth seeing. All these are located within walking distance of one another.

There is a good wine industry near the lake in NE Ohio due to the tempered climate that is good for grape production. Various wineries abound, if that's your thing.

Then there is the Cleveland Orchestra, considered to be one of the five best in America, and known around the world. Their Christmas show this year will feature Jamie Farr, a Toledo Ohio native and star of the TV show MASH. He will narrate "The Night Before Christmas" for the Cleveland Orchestra's Christmas show.

John Henry 

[Sasquatch Jim]

 Nuthin.  Even the threshermans reunion is held outside of town. It is the most boring town along Route 66.

[adaven]

Home of Chris Farley and Georgia O'Keefe. Otis Redding died here. American Girl dolls and The Onion both from here. Peter Egan is around here somewhere. Home of the Slimey Crud ride. Great bicycling city. Money Magazine's Best Place to Live a couple of decades ago. Gateway to some fabulous riding roads.

[Rebochi]

   Tucson ; Movie sets, Food, Geezers and way too hot in the summer.

[Toecutter]

The Good: Lakes, wilderness, farming, everything outdoors.

The Bad: Drugs, crime, and racial tension.

[stonelover]

History! Civil War battlefields and places of interest (Antietam, Harpers Ferry, John Brown's Farm, etc.), C&O Canal, Fort Frederick (a stone fort active in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War), railroad museums. Recreation: the Appalachian Trail and other hiking trails,  canoeing/tubing/kayaking/fishing on the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, etc. Wineries and (micro)breweries are seemingly everywhere (not my thing). Best selling author Nora Roberts lives nearby and owns a bookstore in Boonsboro (along with several other properties there).

Best of all: some great riding roads!

We also have the most awesome Sheriff in the area. 
https://washcosheriff.com/about-us/officers/command-staff/

    Don't forget that the Skyline Drive is but a stone's throw away!

[rocker59]

  Greene County also had the westernmost battle in the Civil War. 

Except for:

Pea Ridge/Elkhorn Tavern in Arkansas.
Mine Creek/Osage in Kansas. 
Cabin Creek in The Cherokee Nation.
Glorietta Pass in New Mexico.

Among others.

They say this one in Arizona was the westernmost battle of The Civil War:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/picacho-peak

 

[Gnirwin]

I'm from north central Ohio and our claim to fame is the birth of pro football and the football hall of fame as well as the birthplace of American Rubber companies. We have great winding roads where not only you can ride through Cuyahoga National Forest but also Many miles of Amish country. People are friendly, the women are beautiful, the roads are open and at the end of the day the beers are cold.

[circlip]

Glen Ellyn, Illinois - that is a bit of a puzzler...
Laurie Anderson, performance artist and Lou Reed's final wife, was born here.
Also the birthplace of Marcellus Jones, who might have fired the first shot at the battle of Gettysburg.
But probably best known for being only about 10 miles from a Moto Guzzi, Aprilia, BMW, Triumph and Enfield dealer and only about 5 miles from a Triumph, Ducati, KTM and MV Agusta dealer.

[Toecutter]

Sadly, to further prove my above point...

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/its-an-epidemic-inexpensive-crystal-meth-eclipsing-opioids-on-the-prairies

However,it has to be said, on the positive side of things, that the Canadian prairies are dripping with history, good and bad.

[Rick in WNY]

Perth Western Australia. A beautiful city, great weather most of the time, white sandy beaches and home of Australia 2. The first yacht to steal the Americas Cup from you Yanks (er Americans  ) in 1983.

Stubbie, you forgot about being the launching point of the Truculent Turtle!

https://www.maritimepatrolassociation.org/documents/heritage/Truculent_Turtle_1946.pdf

As for me, I hail from the heart of the NY Finger Lakes. We happen to be the #2 wine region in the entire US of A... slightly behind some valley in California that got named after an auto parts store. 

Lotsa stuff up here. You want history, how about the Erie Canal? It's what made NYC from a small seaport into the monster it is today. Got some of the best fishing in the country, hunting too. We have Corning Glass just down the road, the museum there never ceases to amaze me. It's where they made the 200 inch mirror for the Palomar observatory... designed in 1928, finally finished in 1948. They have one of the cracked mirror blanks on display... as well as glass going back 5000 years ago. Good stuff, makes you think about how long humans have been smart enough to make glass.

Throw in Watkins Glen racetrack being nearby, and yeah, loads of good things where I live.

Sadly, being a world of balance, the good parts have their opposing bad parts... mostly in the forms of taxes, laws, regulations, etc... Seems a person can't even fart in NY State without permission.

[rdbandkab]

Weirton - Weirton Steel.



Arcelor Mittal Steel does business on the grounds now.   They're in the process of tearing down portions of the mill currently. 

[nsmith]

used to be South Dakota; State with the most registered motorcycles per person.. 14year old's can legally drive, South Dakota Moto"Hey we got a Black guy" North Dakota moto "Hey, did you hear about the black guy in South Dakota?"

[Muzz]

New Zealand.  Most people remark on the number of sheep we have , used to be 40 million but now down to just below 30mill I believe.

Where I live, Christchurch.  Used to be called "The Garden City" with lots of trees etc.  Then we had an earthquake.......  We still have plenty of trees etc. but now we also (still) have swathes of cleared open spaces.  People have been planting them with community gardens, help yourself fruit trees and are great places to let your dog run free.  The displaced population had a migration to more outlying areas where the ground is more stable.