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Hawaii (aside from Pearl Harbor I don't think there's much history there)
Uhhh, have you ever been to Hawaii? The only state that was once an independent kingdom, the only Royal Palace in the United States (located in downtown Honolulu). The big island has several National Historic Park sites with Native Hawaiian archaeology and history. Then there all the WWII history if that is your thing.
The truth of the matter is, every state has had interesting and unique historical events if you look into it. If the only thing you find interesting is war, the South has Civil War history, the North has a lot of Revolutionary War history, and pretty much the whole country had some sort of Indian wars.
I'd have to go with the standard... "North Dakota." Other than motorcycle enthusiasts, I have never heard anyone say "lets go to North Dakota" for any reason.
Uhhh, have you ever been to Hawaii? The only state that was once an independent kingdom, the only Royal Palace in the United States (located in downtown Honolulu). The big island has several National Historic Park sites with Native Hawaiian archaeology and history. Then there all the WWII history if that is your thing.
The truth of the matter is, every state has had interesting and unique historical events if you look into it. If the only thing you find interesting is war, the South has Civil War history, the North has a lot of Revolutionary War history, and pretty much the whole country had some sort of Indian wars.
People have often sort of a limited view of "history". Historical knowledge in this country is usually just focused on the big events--starting with wars, and then maybe exploration or political events. People only see the most obvious and famous historical sights as worthy of attention often--and sometimes it's just limited to a few famous monuments.
The truth is that the periods in between the wars or the big periods can be just as interesting. How the frontier was settled was interesting, places that were big boomtowns or immigrant filled ports are interesting, old urban landscapes and. I find somewhere like the Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side of New York that shows how Italian and Irish and Jewish immigrants really lived as interesting if not more so as the Statue of Liberty. Likewise the history of a place like Wyoming with the legacy of mountain men fur trappers living side by side with Native Americans and homesteaders and miners on the frontier-or the Johnson County War which was basically a real life Western with shootouts between gunslingers over rival ranchers fighting for territory--isn't boring either.
And yeah, Hawaii has plenty of history in a lot of different ways. That's such a place that obviously not boring in terms of history considering it was once a Polynesian kingdom, was the last place of US territory to be attacked by a foreign power, the oldest historical Japanese and Filipino populations in the country going back to the 19th Century and so on...
Florida has quite a big of history. St. Augustine is the oldest European settlement in whats how the US and the Keys have a long and interesting history as well. North Florida is part of the antebellum South and has a very rich Southern history too. There are many quaint, Deep South towns in North Florida.
And while its 20th century history, one simply can't overlook the significance of Cape Canaveral, NASA and the moon landings. NASA is certainly worth a trip and there is a lot of history involving the space program.
I just can't think of anything significant regarding Maine and North Dakota's history.
I think the question really is the opposite of "which states have the most famous, well-known history"? Like which states were involved in the Revolutionary or Civil Wars, for example. Now reverse it: which ones don't? That's what this thread may be trying to answer.
Iowa is boring. Boring history. It was created, it sucked, only one thing changed. Now that we have cars and planes it is much easier to get through it faster.
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