Did You Know? Fort Jackson is America’s largest active training center for Army recruits. The Big Apple dance craze originated with Columbia’s African-American community (1937). Of 42 South Carolina flour mills in 1942, only Adluh Flour Mills in Columbia still operates. Columbia’s Town Theatre is America’s oldest community theater in
Did You Know? Pikes Peak Cog Railway is the world's highest cog railroad, rising to the summit (14,110 feet). Athletes at the Olympic Training Center consume 15,000 gallons of milk a year. Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write “America the Beautiful” by a trip up Pikes Peak (1893). Colorado
Did You Know ... ? Colonial Williamsburg is the world's largest living history museum at 301 acres. The Wren Building at the College of William and Mary is America’s oldest academic building (1700). Shirley Plantation, Virginia’s first plantation (1613), has been the site of the same family’s business since 1638.
Did You Know? Coeur d’Alene is home to the world’s only golf course with a floating green. The entire town of Wallace is on the National Register of Historic Places. Since 1884, the Coeur d’Alene mining district has produced 1.2 billion ounces of silver. The U.S. Forest Service’s nursery in
Did You Know? Cleveland’s Winton Motor Carriage Co. placed the earliest known car ads in Scientific American (1898). Cleaveland was the original name, but a newspaper dropped a letter to fit the name into its masthead (1831). Cedar Point’s first ride (1880s) was a trapeze that hurled customers into Lake
Did You Know? Cincinnati’s Gibson Greeting Card Company was the first to publish greeting cards in the U.S. (1850). Three presidents were born in or near Cincinnati: Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison and William Howard Taft. Singing cowboy Roy Rogers was born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati in 1911. The
Did You Know...? Route 66 starts in Chicago. The city’s first known settler was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a black man. Chicago is the Windy City because of Chicagoan bragging about the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The world’s first skyscraper was built in Chicago (1885). Engineers reversed the flow of
Did You Know? Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park saw the bloodiest two-day battle of the Civil War (36,000 casualties). The tilt on the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway maxes out at 72.7%. The Tennessee Aquarium is the world’s largest freshwater aquarium, holding 1.1 million gallons of water. “The Chattanooga Choo
Did You Know? Charlotte is home to 90% of all NASCAR team shops. Charlotte doubles for Washington, D.C., in the TV drama, “Homeland.” The first gold found in America (1899), a 17-pound nugget, was used as a doorstop for three years. Charlotte hosted the first NASCAR stock-car race in 1949.
Did You Know ... ? Charles Towne Landing was the first permanent English settlement in the Carolinas (1670). The real Catfish Row in Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” is a place in Charleston called Cabbage Row. The opening shots of the American Civil War (1861) were fired at Fort Sumter, in
