Did You Know? The Pacific Northwest’s old growth forests produce three times the biomass of tropical rain forests. Olympic National Park, created in part to protect elk, was nearly named Elk National Park. Two dams on the Elwha River will be removed in a $300 million ecosystem restoration project.
Did You Know? The fried clam was invented in Essex in 1916. Gloucester is America's oldest working seaport (1623). Rockport’s Paper House was created from newspapers, originally as the builder’s hobby. More than 4,000 schooners were constructed in Essex. Manchester-by-the-Sea added words to its name to distinguish itself from
Did You Know? The 36,000 to 38,000 Amish residents in and around Holmes County comprise the world’s largest Amish community. Every mile of state and federal highway in Holmes County has been designated an Ohio Scenic Byway. Sugarcreek is home to the world’s largest cuckoo clock, 23-plus feet wide, 24
Did You Know? Redding's Sundial Bridge is the world’s largest sundial and tells time correctly only on June 21. The largest population (500-plus) of bald eagles in the lower 48 winters at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge. In 1941, northern Californians and southern Oregonians tried to create a U.S. state
Did You Know? The young George Washington surveyed part of what is now the valley’s Route 11. Forebears of more than 43 million Americans migrated along the valley’s Wilderness Road. During the Civil War, the city of Winchester changed hands more than 70 times. President Woodrow Wilson was born in
Did You Know? The Rockies harbor the headwaters of the Arkansas, Colorado, Platte and Rio Grande rivers. Fifty-four of Colorado’s mountain peaks surpass 14,000 feet; they are the Fourteeners. Royal Gorge Bridge, 1,053 feet above the Arkansas River, is America's highest suspension bridge. Thanks to the Rockies, Colorado has the highest
Did You Know? In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright established the first civilian flying school in Montgomery. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Montgomery while he was writing “Tender Is the Night.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was pastor at only one church, Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Hyundai
Did You Know? Willamette University was the first institution of higher learning west of the Rockies (1842). The city’s name Salem is an Anglicized form of the Hebrew word shalom, meaning peace. A.C. Gilbert, creator of the erector set for kids, was born in Salem. The Spruce Goose, a wooden
Did You Know? St. Michaels was one of the models for Patamoke village in James Michener’s “Chesapeake.” Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America (4,500 square miles). The abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was a slave in St. Michaels during formative teen years. The Third Haven Meeting House in Easton
Did you know ... ? Schnebly Redland’s Winery in Homestead is the southernmost winery in America. Miami Beach is a man-made island that was once a coconut plantation. More cruise ships are based in Miami than at any other port in the world. Two-thirds of Miami’s population is of Hispanic
