Large Letter Reprint - Fort Wayne, Indiana

Nickname: "The Hoosier State"

Motto: "Crossroads of America"

Indiana is America's largest source of sandstone, which was used in the construction of the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the Pentagon, and 14 state capitols. The first gas station in the world was built in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Great Falls, Montana

Nicknames: Big Sky Country, The Treasure State

Motto: "Oro y Plata" (Spanish) "Gold and Silver"

Egg Mountain near Choteau is famous for the dinosaur eggs found there. This finding supports the theory that dinosaurs are more similar to mammals and birds than to reptiles. In 1862, gold was first discovered in Montana. In the following years of huge successes in gold mines, it even began to replace money. Priests, for example, did not go around with a tray after Mass but offered a tin bowl...

 

Large Letter Reprint - Jersey City, New Jersey

Nickname: The Garden State

Motto: Liberty and prosperity

New Jersey has the highest population density in the USA - 400 people per 1 km2, which is an average 13 times higher than the national average. It is also home to the densest network of highways and railways in the US. The street names in Atlantic City come from... the popular board game "Monopoly".

 

Large Letter Reprint - Cheyenne, Wyoming

Nicknames: Equality State; Cowboy State; Big Wyoming

Motto: Equal Rights

Wyoming ranks among the top coal producers in the United States. In 1994, a record amount of 3 million tons of coal was mined here per week.

Yellowstone Park is famous for its geysers and hot springs. The most famous of the geysers - Old Faithful - has not changed its habits since its discovery in 1870: every hour it sends a column of water up to 50 m high into the air, which then falls after 20 seconds, ending with clouds of steam.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Saint Louis, Missouri

Nicknames: Show Me State, Cave State and Mother of the West

Motto: Let the good of the people be the supreme law

In 1860, a line was launched from St. Joseph in Missouri to Sacramento in California, the "Pony Express" courier route - riders covered a distance of 3,000 kilometres in 10 days. km.

Although Mark Twain described the Mississippi River in his books, his hometown lies on the Missouri River. A museum is dedicated to him in the house in Hannibal, where he spent his childhood.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Carol Stream, Illinois

Nicknames: Land of Lincoln, Prairie State, The Inland Empire State

Motto: State Sovereignty, National Union

The first McDonald's in the world appeared in Des Plaines, Illinois. The first nuclear reactor in the world was constructed by Enrico Fermi's team, and its operation was approved in 1942 in... the squash hall under the University of Chicago football stadium.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Little Rock, Arkansas

Nicknames: The Natural State; Land of Opportunity

Motto: Regnat populus (Latin: The People Rule)

Near the town of Murfreesboro, tourists can look for diamonds themselves - they are embedded in veins of olivine (a locally occurring mineral). In the years 1906-1950, over a thousand stones were mined there every year.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Charleston, West Virginia

Nickname: Mountain State

Mottos: Montani semper liberi - Mountaineers Are Always Free

The beginning of outdoor advertising is considered to be 1908, when the Block Brothers Tobacco Company in Wheeling, placed on all the bridges and barns in the area the sign: "Treat yourself the best, chew Mail Pouch" (Mail Pouch was the type of tobacco produced by this company).

 

Large Letter Reprint - Annapolis, Maryland

Nicknames: "Old Line State", "Free State", "Little America", "America in Miniature"

Motto:  "Fatti maschii, parole femine" (English: "Strong Deeds, Gentle Words")

Fort Meadow is home to one of the most rigorously guarded places in the US - the National Security Agency. In its basement is the American potential of electronic thought, and 2 giant antennas hidden in the nearby forest are constantly broadcasting broadcasts of military conversations, businessmen, and diplomats from around the world. Despite public concerns about the abuse of power by the National Security Agency at Fort Meadow, it can boast of considerable successes, including breaking the military codes of Argentina during the conflict with Great Britain over the Falklands or revealing the presence of a Soviet military unit in Cuba in the late 1970s.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Seattle, Washington

Nickname: "The Evergreen State"

Mottos: Al-ki or Alki, "by and by" in Chinook Jargon

Washington is the headquarters of the Boeing concern - the main hall at the factory in Everett, where the famous Boeing 747 models are assembled, is considered the largest and most extensive building in the world - 19 ha and has a capacity of 6 million m3.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Providence, Rhode Island

Nicknames: The Ocean State, Little Rhody

Motto: Hope

Rhode Island is the position with the longest name. Its official name was given in 1776 by the English King Charles II to Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The largest insect in the world is in Providence, on the roof of the Pest Control Station building. It is an eighteen-meter blue ant - 928 times larger than it actually is.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Boston, Massachusetts

Nicknames: The Bay State (official); The Pilgrim State; The Puritan State; The Old Colony State; The Baked Bean State

Mottos: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Latin)

The 552 original Salem "witches" media from 1692 are still in the Peabodyssex Museum today. Norfolk County is the birthplace of 4 US Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Portland, Oregon

Nickname: The Beaver State

Motto: Alis volat propriis - English: She flies with her own wings

The "Oregon Trail" is the longest trail in the USA, along which settlers moved westwards in the past - it was over 3,000 meters long. km and it took up to six months to cover it. Haystack Rock, a monolith located on Cannon Beach, is 72 meters high and is one of the three largest coastal monoliths in the world.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Greenville, South Carolina

Nickname: The Palmetto State

Motto (s): Dum spiro spero (Latin, ''While I breathe, I hope'')

South Carolina is the second-largest peach-growing state in the US after California.

Upper Whitewater Falls is the highest waterfall in the eastern part of the USA - it measures 125 meters and is located in the mountainous northern part of South Carolina.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Lewisburg, Kentucky

Nicknames: The Bluegrass State

Mottos: United we stand, divided we fall

The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, founded by Retired Colonel Harland Sanders, was established in the town of Corbin in 1930. To this day, the image of Sanders adorns the company's logo all over the world.

Kentucky ranks first in the US for whiskey production and has been produced there since 1820.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Ashburn, Virginia

Nicknames: Old Dominion, Mother of Presidents

Mottos: Sic semper tyrannis - (English: Thus Always to Tyrants)

More than half of the civil war battles between North and South took place in the territory of Virginia. 2,200 out of 4,000 battles took place there.

Jamestown, the first of 13 Colonies, was established for the purpose of silk cultivation. After that, however, when the plans were thwarted by a fungus plague that completely destroyed the mulberry bushes, it was decided to plant tobacco. To this day, Virginia is famous for its huge tobacco plantations.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Rhame, North Dakota

Nicknames: Peace Garden State, Roughrider State, Flickertail State, Heaven on Earth

Mottos: Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable

North Dakota bison are among the largest in the world: they are up to 3 meters long and weigh more than a ton.

The Dickinson Dinosaur Museum houses twelve complete dinosaur skeletons, including Triceratops and Edmontosaurus.

90% of North Dakota is arable land - the most of any US state.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Phoenix, Arizona

Nicknames: The Grand Canyon State; The Copper State; The Valentine State

Mottos: Ditat Deus (God enriches)

There are 19 Indian reservations in Arizona inhabited by the Navajo, Apache, Hopi, and Pima tribes.

The meteor crater (Meteor Crater) was formed by the impact of an iron asteroid about 40 meters in diameter, which ejected about 175 million tons of earth and rock into the air, creating a crater a kilometer wide and several hundred meters deep. There is now a museum on the site, where you can e.g. watch the movie Impact.

 

Large Letter Reprint - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Nicknames: "The Great Lake(s) State", "The Wolverine State", "The Mitten State", "Water (Winter) Wonderland"

Motto: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice - (English: "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you")

Due to the huge number of cars produced there, Detroit is called the world capital of the automotive industry. In 1893, Henry Ford, a self-taught engineer, approached the mayor of Detroit asking for permission to travel around the city in a motor-carriage he called a "buggy." It was one of the first cars in the USA and the beginning of the Ford car factory.

 

Large Letter Reprint - New Haven, Coonecticut

Common Name: Constitution State

Motto: Qui Transtulit Sustinet ("He who has moved still sustains").

The world's first nuclear submarine, Nautilus, was launched at the Groton Shipyard in Connecticut.

George W. Bush, the president of the United States, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He also studied law at Yale University.

Connecticut was one of the first states to break away from England (1776) and one of the first to abolish slavery (1784).