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Geez, I come from a very historic, albeit, unsung place.... why do all the obvious places get all the attention?
The Liberty Bell of the West, (its older than Philadelphias bell) was a gift from Louis XV to the french people of Louisiana, it was rung by George Clark in 1778 on 4 July, when he claimed the Upper Louisiana territory for the US.
Does anyone know where that bell resides?
It was a bloodless coup, btw.
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Originally Posted by krudmonk
Phoenix isn't an option?
do ya think the rest of the country is getting the cold shoulder?
You forgot San Diego, Los Angeles & San Francisco. All were founded in the 1770's by Spain & have a longer history than many of the cities listed.
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Originally Posted by krudmonk
Phoenix isn't an option?
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Originally Posted by kshe95girl
do ya think the rest of the country is getting the cold shoulder?
I mean to include cities that when one thinks of the city, they overwhelmingly think of history. When one thinks of those four cities, History dosen't come to mind as much as the cities I put on the list.
You forgot San Diego, Los Angeles & San Francisco. All were founded in the 1770's by Spain & have a longer history than many of the cities listed.
Yeah but nothing important happened in California except for John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock making pictures there. If it wasn't for Vertigo would anyone even know what San Francisco is?
But seriously, while the Spanish history of California and New Mexico is fascinating it's been of little importance to the nation in general, the contributions of the English colonies were far more important.
In any event St. Augustine Florida is an older Spanish city than those in the west (oldest city in nation actually) and was also the scene of alot more action. The city and it's old fort have been besieged several times by pirates and the English and then we've ole Pedro Menendez who fought a local war with the French in the late 1500s and massacred several hundred of them he'd captured. The French were Huguenots and when those captured refused to convert he had their throats cut. There's a high school in St. Augustine named after Menendez, VERY politically uncorrect.
The Spanish also encouraged runaway slaves from Georgia and there was a Black settlement at St. Augustine called Fort Moses.
The Castilo de San Marcos at St. Augustine is the 57 Chevy of old forts in The United States. It's in excellent repair and has four bastions, a ravelin and an excellent glacis with covered way and places of arms.
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I knew i forgot something.
