Anonymous #1 1d

I mean even like locally to your city, some of the things I’ve found out about my area are so fascinating

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Anonymous OP 1d

The city I currently live is less than 100 years old, there’s not that much history compared surrounding areas. Not much local history here but the regional history is pretty rich

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Anonymous #1 1d

Yeah that’s understandable. There’s a lot of suburbs here like that. I like that I live in a borough with a rich history to it, and also go to school in a different one also with rich history.

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Anonymous OP 1d

At least the general area (like the county) has pretty interesting Revolutionary War history, but yeah I def hate living in the suburbs

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Anonymous #1 1d

Technically I live in a “suburb” of Pittsburgh but this town has existed for over 200 years, and some suburbs of Pittsburgh (even us in a way with the Whiskey Rebellion) have Revolutionary War history to them. Just yesterday, a marker was put up for land George Washington owned not far from here.

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Anonymous OP 1d

As someone in north Jersey, the towns are either like 100ish years old or 200-350 years old with few exceptions. Personally, I am several miles away from an abandoned mining town and also a military camp that was under George Washington’s jurisdiction. I wish my city had rich history like that

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Anonymous #1 1d

You’re still close to it though to enjoy it! I love history of my entire region, even the parts I don’t necessarily live in or visit often

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Anonymous OP 1d

Yeah the main issue is that I don’t have a car, getting to the historic sites can be pretty tedious up in these hills/mountains

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Anonymous #1 1d

Oh I get that lol. I have a car, but my mom is partial owner and I am not really allowed to go much of anywhere. I am walking to a history tour of my town tonight (I walk to downtown here it’s close, work down there too) We got crazy hills and mountains in SWPA, too. The steepest street in North America is in Pittsburgh.

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Anonymous OP 1d

It’s nice to be in historic cities with developed downtowns because then at least there are historic sites in walking distance from each other. I would kill for a walking tour or a historic trail that I didn’t need to drive to The crazy hills and mountains are good for camping and hiking for fun, not so much for trying to actually travel to other cities on foot or even on bike

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Anonymous #1 1d

Exactly right. The sad thing about my town is a lot of it is getting gentrified now, so a lot of the buildings original faces are being taken over by the monotone, black and white look. I miss the original look and vibe of the town like it had while growing up. My college town hasn’t changed a bit in ages, all the faces either still look the same or are redone to look similar to the previous one, which I really appreciate that they do

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Anonymous OP 1d

Well as a medievalist, most of the buildings in my area are new, the good thing about northern Jersey is the density of 1700s history. It’s unfortunate how much of it has been given monotone and modern architecture like you mentioned. We lost some era modern gems because of private developers. My college town is pretty far away but it has a lot more 1700s architecture than other places on the east coast

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Anonymous #1 1d

My town doesn’t have much 1700s. The general area you can find pieces of the 1700s, but this area was the “frontier” and “the west” during the Revolutionary War time

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Anonymous OP 1d

Honestly surprising since PA was one of the original 13 but I guess if you are out west that would be frontier in the 1700s. I would imagine there’s more pieces than beyond the Mississippi River

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Anonymous #1 1d

Right after the revolution was the “Whiskey Rebellion” in SWPA. It was a big deal, Washington even had to send in the military

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Anonymous OP 1d

Yeah I don’t hear about it often but I suppose being close to it would make it more important and memorable. I think most of my textbooks just talk about its impacts on early American politics rather than the events of the conflict itself

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Anonymous #1 1d

Another thing I find weird is that they don’t teach anything about Carnegie Steel and all the Industrial Revolution stuff in other states. I know someone from Texas that didn’t really know anything about Carnegie—which is insane to me. I guess it matters more to us than others

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Anonymous OP 1d

To be fair, a lot of Carnegie’s impact is felt very directly in PA and NY, so only those states and surrounding areas have strong connection to his industry and philanthropy

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Anonymous #1 1d

Steel was essential nationally, though. It was used in the construction of Golden Gate

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Anonymous #1 1d

^Carnegie Steel was used

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Anonymous OP 1d

I mean most people know the name of Carnegie, Rockefeller, or Vanderbilt. Of course there were plenty of northern businesses magnates in that period who aren’t as infamous like Flagler as well as (JP) Morgan. The things they built are better remembered than their life stories

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Anonymous #2 1d

I have a friend that’s in school in western Texas

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Anonymous OP 1d

Wait which one

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Anonymous #2 1d

Texas tech in Lubbock

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Anonymous OP 1d

Oh dang naw I ain’t go there, ANGELO STATE REPRESENT 🐏 natty champs this year in d2 baseball

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Anonymous #2 1d

lol I go to a D3 school in SWPA I highly doubt you’ve ever heard of. I’ve never heard of Angelo State, as I live outside Pittsburgh.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Pennsylvania is a beautiful beautiful state and Pittsburg is pretty nice too, honestly smaller schools are so much chiller

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Anonymous #2 1d

Plus PA’s history is so cool and unique especially compared to the other original states/colonies

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Anonymous #2 1d

It is, except be careful it’s Pittsburgh (the h) people get very mad if you don’t add it loll. The culture here is unlike any other city out there and the skyline too is so unique. I never thought anything of it until we had a scare of moving out of state, then I started to really look into and appreciate what makes us so special

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Anonymous #2 1d

PA also does have some of if not the best history of any state. Pretty much any period of time in American history has some decent chunk of history to it in PA.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Oh dang my bad lol Pittsburgh, and I would say PA has the most interesting state history right after Texas (remember the Alamo)

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Anonymous #2 1d

Texas is pretty cool history, but it doesn’t go as far back as PA and doesn’t have as cool of names like PA does. Just yesterday a plot of land near me got a historical marker because George Washington owned it at one point, and George Washington has stayed in my town before as he did business with the founder at the mill.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Fair. But Sam Houston lived with the Cherokee in his youth, and Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie need no explanation

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Anonymous #2 1d

We have a town named Houston in Pennsylvania, founded by a near relative of Sam Houston.

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Anonymous OP 1d

My friend at Texas Tech lives near Houston, TX

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Anonymous #5 3h

I’m close to WV so the history is very similar and my family is from all over WV, so definitely find that fascinating too

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Anonymous OP 3h

Yo that’s so cool!

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Anonymous OP 1h

I’m reading an old history textbook I found at an antique store. Really fascinating stuff modern ones glance over. Next in my queue is a book about the mine wars and then one on the Hatfield-McCoy Feud.

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