|
State |
Home of |
|
Alabama
|
George
Washington Carver, who discovered more than
300 uses for peanuts |
|
Alaska
|
The longest
coastline in the U.S., 6,640 miles, greater
than that of all other states combined |
|
Arizona
|
The most
telescopes in the world, in Tucson |
|
Arkansas
|
The only
active diamond mine in the U.S. |
|
California
|
�General
Sherman,� a 3,500-year-old tree, and a stand
of bristlecone pines 4,000 years old are the
world's oldest living things |
|
Colorado
|
The world's
largest silver nugget (1,840 pounds) found
in 1894 near Aspen |
|
Connecticut
|
The first
American cookbook, published in Hartford in
1796: American
Cookery by Amelia Simmons |
|
Delaware
|
The first log
cabins in North America, built in
1683 by Swedish
immigrants |
|
Florida
|
U.S.
spacecraft launchings from Cape Canaveral,
formerly Cape Kennedy |
|
Georgia
|
The Girl
Scouts, founded in Savannah by Juliette
Gordon Low in 1912 |
|
Hawaii
|
The only royal
palace in the U.S. (Iolani) |
|
Idaho
|
The longest
main street in America, 33 miles, in Island
Park |
|
Illinois
|
The tallest
building in the U.S., Sears Tower, in
Chicago |
|
Indiana
|
The famous car
race: the Indy 500 |
|
Iowa
|
The shortest
and steepest railroad in the U.S., Dubuque:
60� incline, 296 feet |
|
Kansas
|
Helium
discovered in 1905
at the University of Kansas |
|
Kentucky
|
The largest
underground cave in the world: 300 miles
long, the Mammoth-Flint Cave system |
|
Louisiana
|
The most
crayfish: 98% of the world's crayfish |
|
Maine
|
The most
easterly point in the U.S., West Quoddy Head1 |
|
Maryland
|
The first
umbrella factory in the U.S.,
1928,
Baltimore |
|
Massachusetts
|
The first
World Series, 1903:
the Boston �Americans� (became the Red Sox
in 1908) vs. the Pittsburg Pirates
(Pittsburgh had no �h� between 1890�1911) |
|
Michigan
|
The Cereal
Bowl of America, Battle Creek, produces most
cereal in the U.S. |
|
Minnesota
|
The oldest
rock in the world, 3.8 billion years old,
found in Minnesota River valley |
|
Mississippi
|
Coca-Cola,
first bottled in 1894
in Vicksburg |
|
Missouri
|
Mark Twain and
some of his characters, such as Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn |
|
Montana
|
Grasshopper
Glacier, named for the grasshoppers that can
still be seen frozen in ice |
|
Nebraska
|
The only
roller skating museum in the world, in
Lincoln |
|
Nevada
|
Rare fish such
as the Devils Hole pup, found only in Devils
Hole, and other rare fish from prehistoric
lakes; also the driest state |
|
New Hampshire
|
Artificial
rain, first used near Concord in
1947 to
fight a forest fire |
|
New Jersey
|
The world's
first drive-in movie theater, built in
1933 near
Camden |
|
New Mexico
|
�Smokey Bear,�
a cub orphaned by fire in
1950, buried in Smokey Bear
Historical State Park in
1976 |
|
New York
|
The first
presidential inauguration: George Washington
took the oath of office in New York City on
April 30, 1789. |
|
North Carolina
|
Virginia Dare,
the first English child born in America, on
Roanoake Island in 1587 |
|
North Dakota
|
The geographic
center of North America, in Pierce County,
near Balta |
|
Ohio
|
The first
electric traffic lights, invented and
installed in Cleveland in
1914 |
|
Oklahoma
|
The first
parking meter, installed in Oklahoma City in
1935 |
|
Oregon
|
The world's
smallest park, totaling 452 inches,
created in Portland on St. Patrick's Day for
leprechauns and snail races |
|
Pennsylvania
|
The first
magazine in America: the American
Magazine, published in Philadelphia for
3 months in 1741 |
|
Rhode Island
|
Rhode Island
Red chickens, first bred in
1854; the start of
poultry as a major American industry |
|
South Carolina
|
The first tea
farm in the U.S., created in
1890 near
Summerville |
|
South Dakota
|
The world's
largest natural, indoor warmwater pool,
Evans' Plunge in Hot Springs |
|
Tennessee
|
Graceland, the
estate and gravesite of Elvis Presley |
|
Texas
|
NASA, in
Houston, headquarters for all piloted U.S.
space projects |
|
Utah
|
Rainbow
Bridge, the largest natural stone bridge in
the world, 290 feet high, 275 feet across |
|
Vermont
|
The largest
production of maple syrup in the U.S. |
|
Virginia
|
The only
full-length statue of George Washington,
placed in capitol in 1796 |
|
Washington
|
Lunar Rover,
the vehicle used by astronauts on the moon;
Boeing, in Seattle, makes aircraft and
spacecraft |
|
West Virginia
|
Marbles; most
of the country's glass marbles made around
Parkersburg |
|
Wisconsin
|
The
typewriter, invented in Milwaukee in
1867 |
|
Wyoming
|
The �Register
of the Desert,� a huge granite boulder
covering 27 acres with 5,000 early pioneer
names carved on it |
