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December 1, 2013
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![]() ![]() Casey Jones Dies on the Cannonball Express (1900)Jones was an American locomotive engineer whose main claim to fame, until his fateful run on the Cannonball Express, was his punctuality. On April 30, 1900, he was driving the Cannonball Express south on a dangerous, accident-prone run when he suddenly saw a stalled freight train ahead. Instead of jumping to safety, he stayed to slow his train, saving his coworkers and passengers but losing his own life in the process. Who wrote the ballad that immortalized him as a folk hero? More... Discuss |
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In St Petersburg they have a Central Ave. then 1st ave N and 1st ave S
The town I grew up in had a bunch of tree names for streets. Elm, Maple, Beech, Pine. Smallish town, no streets using numbers in the name.
There's a sub-division of this town with streets named after trees, most of which aren't indigenous to this area nor will some successfully grow here.
Many of the streets are named after the first settlers and founders of the town.
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