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Shutterstock Action Park Eugene Mulvihill opened Action Park on July 4, 1978, in Vernon Township, New Jersey to make money from his ski resort...
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Shutterstock Action Park Eugene Mulvihill opened Action Park on July 4, 1978, in Vernon Township, New Jersey to make money from his ski resort...
Wikimedia Commons/Billy Hathorn The 1886 Coca-Cola Accidental Invention (Georgia) Dr. John Stith Pemberton created Coca-Cola on May 8, 1886, in Atlanta, Georgia. The pharmacist...
Wikimedia Commons The Battle of Monmouth and Molly Pitcher Mary Ludwig Hays was 23 years old when she joined the Continental Army camp during...
Shutterstock The Switchback Railway at Coney Island On June 16, 1884, LaMarcus Thompson opened America’s first roller coaster at Coney Island known as Switchback...
Shutterstock Stiltsville Seven wooden houses on stilts stand in the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay, one mile south of Cape Florida. The first structures...
Shutterstock Crystal Cathedral, California Before megachurches had coffee bars, there was one with 10,000 windows. The Crystal Cathedral opened in 1980 as the new...
Shutterstock The First-Ever McDonald’s, Des Plaines April 15, 1955 was just another Tuesday in Des Plaines until Ray Kroc opened his McDonald’s. The Speedee...
Shutterstock Walden Pond, Massachusetts In 1845, a young writer named Henry David Thoreau built a tiny cabin by Walden Pond and lived there for...
Shutterstock Knott’s Berry Farm, California Before Disney, there was Knott’s. What started as a Depression-era berry farm became California’s first theme park, complete with...
Shutterstock Sunken Gardens, Nebraska The story of Lincoln’s Sunken Gardens is pure Nebraska: take something broken (in this case, a neighborhood dump), add hard...