about the area you live in.lets hear em.

i've been scouting the area rivers for fur and always find it interesting that all our rivers around flow north.the Genesee river starts in PA and if i dont get out i'll end up in lake Ontario.

lets hear em folks.

Coldest day in Kansas is -40. Hottest is 121

Land of extremes for sure.

Lancaster County, about 45 minutes southeast of me, is the birthplace of the Pennsylvania Long Riffle.

New York---home of the "Safe Act." I hope New York folks remember this at election time.

Arkansas was known as the bear state.
We have diamonds you can look for.

Well growing up I lived in Nevada. I learned to trap in the same mountains Claude Dallas shot them game warden in. Now I live in Montana. There’s a pile of rocks that if you hit them with a hammer they ring like bells, each rock has a different tone. I now trap in areas that Lewis and Clark probably camped.

Mississippi believe it or not has more white tail deer per acre than any state in the union. Couldn't tell that by where I hunt. LOL

Missouri is "The Show Me State" but is lesser known as "The Cave State" with over 6300 recorded caves, and growing. I seem to stumble onto a cave or 2 almost every trapping season

Here's a cave opening from one I found last year

The Lighthouse next to our store in Barcelona, Westfield, NY was the first and only natural gas light house.

The southernmost point in Ontario (very near where I live) is on the same latitude as northern California. In fact, I need to go north to cross into the USA from where I live.
Beaver were extirpated from the area over 100 years ago but have started reappearing within the last 10 years or so.
When I was a kid in the 80's, you could stand on Windsor's riverfront on Devil's Night and watch Detroit burn (yep, we actually did this)

Pennsylvania-
-In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.

-Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.

-Susquehanna & Juniata (rivers) were name the two most beautiful words

Jaque Vieau built the first fur trade post on the Sheboygan River in 1795 just downstream from where I work. He also put up posts in Kewaunee, Manitowoc, and Milwaukee. He worked for Solomon Juneau.

People who drink beer here are celebrating the new alcohol level change coming in November from 3.2 to 4 or 5 what ever normal states get LOL !!

Licking County, Ohio … Rolling hills in half of the county and the almost table top flat in the rest. Laced with small streams to larger creeks and small rivers and one of the states oldest water impoundment oo the southern side, Buckeye Lake. In my younger years the trapping very good and furbearers we abundant. Large corporate farms have bought a considerable amount of the county, cities and towns have spread across large section of the county.

The small streams that use to provide an easy 125 muskrats, might provide 15 or 20. Mink always have been few and far in between are still that way. Fox of both types, that were very abundant, are now rare. Streams in the eastern part of county produce a number of beaver and otter. They seldom , but occasionally move westward into streams. Coon and coyotes have taken over the majority of the county. Deer are still prevalent, but down because of special kill permits, in off season, to mostly corporate farmers. Fox and grey squirrel are still present, with Fox squirrels located now in few areas. Good rabbit hunting went with the establishment of large corporate farms. Fishing is like every other wildlife species, there but limited.

Garry-

Refused loan to village of Chicago

The bank of Shawneetown turned down a loan to the village of Chicago stating the reason that Chicago was too far from Shawneetown to ever amount to anything.

The village I live in, Mexico, was the first white settlement in the entire Juniata river valley. 1741

Kalamazoo was the home of public tax funds for schools .

A landmark legal decision in American education handed down by the Michigan Supreme Court in 1874 as the result of a case that originated in Kalamazoo determined that school boards could use tax dollars to fund high schools.
“That became known as The Kalamazoo Case and it was cited … in many other states as a precedent for people to be able to (levy a) tax for a high school,” said Michigan historian Larry Massie, of Allegan.

“The Kalamazoo Case established the legality of support for high schools from public funds,” is how the Michigan Education Journal put it in a November 1939 article titled, “High Schools for All.”
This may have ended the school thru 8th grade practiced in the early 1900's.


I still have my fathers 8th grade Diploma and an application for tuition, if High School was desired.
Issued in Grand Traverse County.

Arkansas is the duck capital of the world and is also the rice capital of the world. Go figure.I also work at acme brick. There are 2 brick plants here in the town i work in malvern arkansas and between the 2 of us we put out more brick than any other town in the world.Malvern is Also where Billy bob Thortan grew up

Michael I never knew there were so many caves in our state, I’ve never seen any in my neck of the woods.

Missouri is the birthplace of Jessie James, he was born about 40 min south of where I live

The pony express starting point was in St Joseph Mo which is about 30 miles west of me

My home town, Wabash IN, first electrically lighted city in the world.

https://www.in.gov/history/markers/342.htm