Did You Know? Hollywood filmmakers have logged more than 400 film-related credits in the Wilmington area. The Venus flytrap grows naturally only within a 60- to 100-mile radius of Wilmington. Orton's Music and Billiards in Wilmington is America’s oldest poolroom (1888). Wilmington was called New Carthage, New Liverpool and Newton
Did You Know? Mount Washington is the tallest mountain in the U.S. Northeast, 6,288 feet. Crawford Path is America’s oldest continuously maintained hiking trail (1819). The engine and passenger car on Mount Washington’s cog railway are not coupled when on the move. Staircases in the Mount Washington Hotel were built
Did You Know? Washington state has 3,036 miles of saltwater shoreline. The Sequim Irrigation Festival, dating from 1896, is Washington’s oldest continuous festival. The Grand Coulee Dam is American’s largest dam and one of 1,000-plus in the state. Hells Canyon is North America’s deepest gorge (7,913 feet). The world’s largest
Did You Know? Gray whales make the longest migration of any mammal —10,000 to 14,000 miles roundtrip yearly. English explorer John Meares gave Cape Disappointment its name after he missed the mouth of the Columbia River (1788). Forks was the setting for Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” books on which movies were
Did You Know? Richmond was burned in the Revolutionary War (by the British, 1781) and the Civil War (by residents, 1865). British reinforcements departed for Virginia on the very day Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown (1781). Robert E. Lee cast his lot with the Confederacy after being offered command
Did You Know? America’s first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 when two lines met near Brigham City. Lake Powell has more shoreline (1,800+ miles) than the western U.S. Great Salt Lake is four to eight times saltier than the oceans. More than 350 million tons of fossils have been
Did You Know? The Soo Locks comprise the world’s busiest lock system, averaging 10,000 vessels yearly. Sault Ste. Marie is Michigan’s oldest city, dating from 1668. Native people were mining copper on Keweenaw Peninsula 7,000 years ago, long before Europeans. The Upper Peninsula accounts for about 30% of Michigan’s land
Did You Know? The Texas oil industry started with the 1901 strike at the Spindletop oilfield at Beaumont. Galveston’s first known European settler was a pirate, Jean Laffite, who started a colony in 1817. Padre Island boasts the world’s longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island (70 miles). After its deadly
Did You Know? Erle Stanley Gardner wrote many of his Perry Mason books in Temecula where he lived for 33 years. The slot machine count at Pechanga Resort and Casino beats the largest Vegas casino by more than 1,000. The Mission San Juan Capistrano padres were the first to plant
Did You Know? The Lincolns bought their home and an empty lot for $1,500 (1844) and remodeled or enlarged the house six times. Detective Allan Pinkerton thwarted the first plot to kill Lincoln, before the first inauguration in 1861. Lincoln did not grow a beard until he was elected president
