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Honestly nothing should be above Philadelphia in regards to US history. I'm trying to wrap my arms around Boston being ahead in this poll and the best I can come up with is sheer ignorance or the fact that Boston has a more romantic image about it nationally.
Yes Boston had its moments and highlights in the history of this country but it all unfolded in Philadelphia, this was the command center of the revolution.In effect Boston was an outpost, Philadelphia was ground central. Philadelphia is a Who's Who in First_ _ _ _ in the USA.
Philly, through happenstance was the capital during the revolution. It could have been any other city in America.
It was Bostonians who started the War for Independence. It was Boston that the British tried to isolate.
Philly was a happy city full of jim dandies while the blood of Bostonians was being spilled.
I think because it is not an East Coast city, and currently has a particularly dubious reputation, many people know very little about Detroit's history besides its contribution of the automobile and music. There is much more.
I think because it is not an East Coast city, and currently has a particularly dubious reputation, many people know very little about Detroit's history besides its contribution of the automobile and music. There is much more.
Good for mentioning Detroit!
Detroit was a *French and later a British fort and trading post throughout the 1700s. She played a big role during Pontiac's Rebellion in the 1760s and even during the War of 1812.
Fort Michilimackinac in Northern Michigan is another old French fort and trading post that never became the big city and industrial area that Detroit became. Later during the Revolution the British moved the settlement to a safer spot, Fort Mackinac, on the island of Mackinac. Both forts have been restored and you can visit them today.
While both Detroit and the Mackinac area are very historic, IMHO neither can quite measure up historically to the two top choices on this thread, Boston and Philadelphia.
By this, I mean cities that have had a significant impact on American history and are filled with historical sights. The cities and towns that just ooz good old classic America and its history.
My choices were Boston(settled 1630) and Philadelphia(1682) Boston is the most. Boston planted the seeds of revolution against Britain.
Philly and Boston have historic sights side by side with modern skyscrapers, which you don't really see down in Charleston or Savannah. They're both historic cities without a doubt, but they're more modernized along with NYC.
In terms of history, the Jamestown/Williamsburg area is hard to beat. Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown (end of the Revolutionary War), Civil War battlefields (more so closer to Richmond), plenty of historic estates/plantations, etc.
I'd say Virginia is the best state in the nation when it comes to history, hands down.
This poll is BS for not including Richmond (which dates back to 1609). It has the Revolutionary war significance of Boston and Philadelphia and is obviously the most significant city of the Civil War. The second English settlement was located here (the first 40 miles east at Jamestown). There is Native American history (Chief Powhatan), slave trade history (Gabriel!!), African American history and Civil Rights history. Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Byrd, Newport, Smith, Lee, Jackson, Madison, Monroe lived here. Those constitutional conventions in Philadelphia were just a bunch of Johnny come latelies copying Virginia's Statute of Religious Freedom. Boston and Philadelphia haven't made history since 1781. Richmond hasn't since 1992 (electing Richmond native Douglas Wilder as the first African American governor in the United States).
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Philly and Boston have historic sights side by side with modern skyscrapers, which you don't really see down in Charleston or Savannah. They're both historic cities without a doubt, but they're more modernized along with NYC.
In terms of history, the Jamestown/Williamsburg area is hard to beat. Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown (end of the Revolutionary War), Civil War battlefields (more so closer to Richmond), plenty of historic estates/plantations, etc.
I'd say Virginia is the best state in the nation when it comes to history, hands down.
That'd make a really good thread. Which state has the most significant history?
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