Where do you all live?

[traindaddy1]

BRONX, NEW YORK

[sanman0516]

N.Y.C
Bethpage Long Island
AND THE LIRR

[dwiemer]

Steve, I think all of the quoted parts can be atributed to Sen. Byrd[:p]

Originally posted by Steve Frame

I am near Morgan's Landing wWVa.

Berkley Springs, a resort town, has more massage therapists than
lawyers.
During the Cold War, a sprawling 112,000 sq. ft. Bomb shelter
was built to shelter members of congress in the event of a
nuclear attack. It's located beneath the famous
Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV.
.In 1921, West Virginia became the first state to have a sales
tax.

At the end of the "Guilded Age" in the late 1890's, the town of
Bramwell, WV had more millionaires per square mile than any
other city in the
US Many of their mansions have been restored and can be
visited by the public.
The first brick street in the world was laid in the city of
Charleston in 1873.

The first concrete street in the world was laid in the town of
Webster Springs, WV in 1903.
In 1956, Cecil Underwood (age 34) became the youngest governor
in the US In 1996, Underwood ran again and became the oldest governor in
the US

West Virginia has the oddest shape of any state. This was
because Union officials, during the Civil War, arranged all the pro-Union
counties of Virginia into a state which then seceded from that Confederate
State.

And lastly, WV was the first state to utilize food stamps!

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