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St Charles, MO
Carthage, MO
Hannibal, MO
Hermann, MO
Lexington, MO
Boonville, MO
Ft. Scott, KS
Ellinwood, KS
Navoo, IL
Eureka Springs, AR
Bonaparte, IA
To name a few...
I've never heard of any part of AR being the midwest
Sandusky, Ohio, is my favorite small historic city in Ohio. Most people just think of Cedar Point, but Sandusky was already a city of 13,000 by 1870 and 20,000 by 1900. Granted, there are some rough-around-the-edges parts of Sandusky and the downtown did experience urban blight, but it's amazing how much the downtown and near downtown neighborhoods have been revitalized.
Sandusky's twin would be the Ohio City neighborhood in Cleveland. Ohio City was originally its own city that grew along the same period that Sandusky and Cleveland also grew (Cleveland annexed Ohio City in the late 1800s). Sandusky, isn't a quaint small town though in the summer when between boaters, Cedar Point and all the youth sporting events at the huge athletic complex that Cedar Point built, the population swells up to 100,000-plus.
Of true small towns, Tiffin, Ohio (which is on the Sandusky River but 40 miles from the city of Sandusky ... which isn't on the Sandusky River) is one that I just visited for the first time a month or so ago. I was impressed. Downtown looks bigger than you would expect for a city of 18,000, it has two small colleges (both just outside downtown). The colleges (combined between the two is probably 5-6K students) gives it a college town feel. I also liked that the Sandusky River goes right through downtown and there are several bridge crossings that connect downtown to what was is one of the historic districts that was mainly brick Victorians. Victorians aren't uncommon in a lot of the older towns, but brick ones are. Between downtown, the historical Victorians and the two colleges (both founded in the mid 1800s) a lot of brick structures in the city.
I second St. Charles, MO. Charming downtown with shops and restaurants, a park along the river and lots of Lewis and Clark history.
My daughter bought a 100+ year old house a few blocks from the river, and they enjoy it there a lot.
Iowa City has all of this. Ames does to a lesser extent (less historical prestige)
I'm sure there's a ton of examples of this. Dubuque probably does with UD, and Madison has it as well.
Waupun has the original casting of the iconic "End of the Traill", and the prison cellblock is the oldest Wisconsin building still in daily use for its original purpose
Chilicothe was once Ohio's biggest city.
Vincennes and Marietta were once the capital of Northwest Territory.
Colon clams that 50 natives grew to be professional stage magicians.
I've never heard of any part of AR being the midwest
I’m from Arkansas.
I can assure you it’s strictly a phenomenon on the internet and among some confused transplants who apparently don’t pay attention to geographical, cultural, or political facts nor the thick southern accents of the people all around them.
No natives consider themselves to be midwestern. There is nothing midwestern about it.
Vincennes is a pit. We stayed there overnight on a road trip to Georgia and my middle-school-aged daughter aptly described it as "crusty." I will grant its downtown is surprisingly well preserved considering how run down the rest of the town is, but even so the downtown was virtually devoid of vitality or anything interesting.
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Almost anywhere in the Midwest with a public university has this.
Maybe anywhere. I can't think of any town with a public university that doesn't fit this description.
There are plenty midwest towns with public universities that just aren't very charming or exciting: Charleston and Macomb in Illinois, Terre Haute and the aforementioned Vincennes in Indiana readily come to mind.
Cairo's downtown is anything but well-preserved. In fact Cairo is best known these days for ghost-town voyeur tourism seeing as the entire downtown business district is abandoned and rotting back into the earth, as are most of its residential streets.
The only thing keeping any part of Cairo afloat was the public housing development on the edge of town, and as I understand HUD ordered those to be torn down. The city was already 80% abandoned before they were closed, I reckon the place is about 90% abandoned now.
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