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Wyoming Fun Facts For Teachers
Wyoming’s license plates feature a man on a bucking bronco. Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote. Yellowstone is the first official National Park (1872) Devils Tower was designated as the first National Monument (1906) The city of Gillette has the largest High School in...
Wisconsin Fun Facts For Teachers
Wisconsin visitors and residents enjoy the state’s 7,446 streams and rivers.End-to-end they’d stretch 26,767 miles. That is more than enough to circle the globe at the equator. Wisconsin’s Door County has five state parks and 250 miles of shoreline along Lake Michigan. These figures represent more than any other county...
West Virginia Fun Facts For Teachers
West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States. West Virginia is considered the southern most northern state and the northern most southern state. Mother’s Day was first observed at Andrews Church in Grafton on May...
Washington Fun Facts For Teachers
The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president. Seattle is home to the first revolving restaurant, 1961. Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the union. Washington state has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined. Washington...
Virginia Fun Facts For Teachers
Virginia was named for England’s “Virgin Queen,” Elizabeth I. The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry. Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to...
Vermont Fun Facts For Teachers
Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution. With a population of fewer than nine thousand people, Montpelier, Vermont is the smallest state capital in the U.S. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. In ratio of cows to...
Utah Fun Facts For Teachers
Completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad was celebrated at Promontory where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met on May 10, 1869. It is now known as Golden Spike National Historic Site Levan, is “navel” spelled backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of...
Texas Fun Facts For Teachers
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state’s most popular historic site....
Tennessee Fun Facts For Teachers
The city of Kingston served as Tennessee’s state capital for one day (September 21, 1807) as a result of treaties negotiated with the Cherokee Indians. The two-hour legislative session passed two resolutions and adjourned back to Knoxville. Andrew Johnson held every elective office at the local, state, and federal level,...
South Dakota Fun Facts For Teachers
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore in 1927. Creation of the Shrine to Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million, though it’s now deemed priceless. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln are sculpted into Mount Rushmore the...
South Carolina Fun Facts For Teachers
Campbell’s Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina. Off Hwy 14 near Gowensville. The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian. The walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was...