Ten Places Where America Changed
- Saratoga Springs, New York: The battle in which Benedict Arnold saved the United States.
- Coloma, California: The site of the discovery of gold in California.
- Titusville, Pennsylvania: Oil, black gold, Texas tea. First commercial oil well.
- Auburn, Massachusetts: The flight of the first liquid fueled rocket.
- Ticonderoga, New York: The capture of this fort and the movement of its cannon to Washington’s army provided a vital weapon to a newborn military and forced the British evacuation of Boston.
- Dayton, Ohio: Where the Wright Brothers did their planning, initial experimentation and development of a flying machine.
- Alamogordo, New Mexico: Site of the first test of the atom bomb.
- Albuquerque, New Mexico: First commercially available personal computer, the Altair.
- Tuskegee, Alabama: Home of the Tuskegee Institute, a black teachers’ college, first headed by Booker T. Washington and where George Washington Carver did his research in agriculture.
- New York, New York: On September 11, 2001.
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