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Welcome to Wahpeton, North Dakota, home of the Chahinkapa zoo, North Dakota State College, and much more!  Wahpeton is located in Southeastern ND along the Bois de Souix River.  The first European explorer in the area was Jonathan Carver in 1767. Carver's mission was to find the Northwest Passage, the imagined waterway to the Orient that many explorers of the time believed existed.  The area...

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Welcome to the town of Pilot Mountain, NC, a small town located just outside of Pilot Mountain State Park. It is named for the nearby Pilot Mountain, a geological formation with a big pinnacle and a small pinnacle.  The town is also believed to be the inspiration for the fictional town of Mount Pilot in  The Andy Griffith Show  and  Mayberry RFD .  The State Park is one of the many stops on the Mo...

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Welcome to Saint Albans, Vermont!  We are visiting the city, not the town which surrounds it.  Yep, the city is surrounded by a town of the same name.  The area was originally chartered in 1763 but didn't see much growth until after the Revolutionary War.  The town was also the site of the Northernmost engagement of the Civil War, known as St. Albans Raid.  The city of St. Albans was incorpor...

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Welcome to Schuyler, Nebraska, a Great Place to Live and Grow!  The town was originally known as Shell Creek Station and was renamed Schuyler in 1870 after Schuyler Colfax, our 17th Vice-President, Schuyler Colfax.  During the same year, the Union Pacific Railroad chose the town as the loading point for cattle driven North from Texas, making Schuyler Nebraska's first "cow town."  Th...

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Welcome to Thibodaux, Louisiana, the "Queen City of LaFourche"! First settled in the 18th century by French colonists, the area was acquired by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.  The town was incorporated under the name Thibodauxville in 1830, but was shortened to its current name in 1838.  From the early 1800s until after the Civil War, Thibodaux was the tradi...

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Welcome to Magnolia, Arkansas, a great place to raise a family!  Founded in 1853, Magnolia is located in Southwest, Arkansas and is home to the World's Largest Charcoal Grill, which looks oddly like a missile.  The grill is used during the World Championship Steak Cookoff as a part of the Magnolia Blossom Festival.  The festival brings more than 40,000 visitors to the area each year.  We also...

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Welcome the Battle Mountain, Nevada, still a hotbed of goldmining in West.  Needless to say, George is really excited and incredulous that this is not a much bigger town if they are still mining gold.  While the area served as a waypoint for western travel, it gained importance in 1866 when copper ore was discovered and mining began.  Gold was discovered in the area in 1912 and the focus eventuall...

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Welcome to Worland, Wyoming, not the home of Richard Dreyfuss!  But that's ok, he's kind of insufferable anyway.  In the episode we almost completely sidestep this marvelous little town in favor of bashing one of our favorite actors, the incomparable Richard Dreyfuss.  We do finally wrap back around to Worland, a small town located on the Big Horn River.  The town owes most of its existe...

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Welcome the Rifle, Colorado, where residents embrace their past and shake hands with their future!  Founded in 1882, the town is located along Rifle Creek near it's mouth on the Colorado River.  The first major industry was cattle and sheep ranching due to the arid conditions in the area.  In 1972, Rifle was host to a massive art installation called the Valley Curtain.  It was a massive orang...

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Welcome to Castle Dale, Utah, "A Great Place to Live, Work and Play"!  Located in Northwestern Utah, Castle Dale is the county seat of Emery County.  Initially the town was supposed to be named Castle Vale after the castle-like geological formations in the area, but the post office listed it as Castle Dale, and the name stuck.  The town is home to the Pioneer History Museum which highlig...

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Welcome to Kaunakakai, the largest town on the island of Moloka'i.  The town was made famous in the 1930s by the song "The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai" after a visit by film star Warner Baxter when he got drunk during a party thrown for him. It was sung by a number of artists including Bing Crosby.  Luckily we were able to listen to the song to figure out how to say the name of the...

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Welcome to Hockessin, DE, a census-designated place!  The community is not a town or a city, but is a populated area without an incorporated entity or local government.  Unfortunately Keith wasn't here to teach us how to pronounce Hockessin, but we came up with a few doozies ourselves.  The area is home to several mushrooms farms that produce white button cap mushrooms.   It was also home to...

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