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
Did You Know? Salem College is the oldest women’s college in the nation (1772). Salem Band, America’s oldest continually active brass band, began performing in 1778. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 25, launched R.J. Reynolds as a chewing-tobacco maker in 1875. The muscadine, used in Yadkin Valley wines, was the first native
Did You Know? The New World’s first log cabins, based on Finnish architecture, were built at Wilmington (1638). E. I. du Pont de Nemours came to Wilmington in 1802 to get away from the French Revolution. Before John D. Rockefeller, Jr., created Historic Williamsburg, New Castle citizens rejected the idea
Did You Know...? Washington’s cherry trees, 3,000 of them, were a gift from Tokyo’s mayor in 1912. President John Quincy Adams swam the Potomac in the buff; once, someone stole his clothes. In 1800, D.C.’s first year as the capital, the government had 131 employees. The Washington Monument sinks a
Did You Know? English settlers landed at Virginia Beach before moving on to found Jamestown (1607). The Old Cape Henry Lighthouse at Fort Story is the oldest federally funded lighthouse (1791). Guinness cites Virginia Beach as having the world’s longest pleasure beach (approximately 35 miles). Virginia Beach’s original wooden boardwalk
Did You Know? Muskogean Indian Chief Tuskaloosa gave his name to the city and county; it means Black Warrior. Football was abandoned at Alabama in 1898 when a (short-lived) ruling forbade teams to leave campus. Jazz singer Dinah Washington was born in Tuscaloosa (1924). Alabama coach Paul Bryant played football
Did You Know? A staple of Mexican menus, the nonsensically named chimichanga was created by accident in Tucson. Mount Lemmon is the southernmost ski destination in the U.S. A saguaro cactus can be 40 to 60 feet tall, weigh 3,200 to 4,800 pounds and live 150 to 200 years. Saguaro
