50 statesEdgar Noguez

William's Computer app.6

3/26/2013

Nevada • The Native Indians of

Nevada were the were the Koso, Paiute, Panamint, Pueblo, Shoshoni and Ute tribes

• First explored by the Spanish

• 1826 - Jeddah Smith (1799-1831) leads expedition to Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada

• 1843 - The First wagon trains led by Joseph Walker cross the Sierra

• 1847 - Mormons move to Salt Lake Valley

California• California was first explored

by the Spanish• 1535 - Hernando Cortes

leads an expedition to La Paz and opens a small colony

• 1579 - The great British sailor, Sir Francis Drake, lands north of San Francisco Bay and claims the territory for England but the land is taken by the Spanish

• 1545 - The Europeans bring typhus to California and the epidemic kills hundreds of thousands of natives

• 1539 - Francisco de Ulla explores the gulf of California

new York• 1600 - European settlers

who brought seeds to New York introduced apples in the 1600s.

• 1747 - The oldest cattle ranch in the US was started at Montauk on Long Island.

• 1876 - First Boy's Club was established in New York City.

• 1857 - Joseph Gayety of New York City invented toilet paper.

• 1848 - First women's rights convention met at Seneca Falls.

Hawaii• During the Hawaiian

Monarchy, Hawaii's population was among the most literate in the world.

• •Hawaii is considered the nation's (USA) endangered species capitol.

• 6.Hawaii has two official languages, Hawaiian and English, though Pidgin, Samoan, and Tongan are also spoken.

• 18.Day biting mosquitoes first arrived in Hawaii in 1872 as stowaways aboard a merchant ship, bringing with them new diseases such as malaria and the plague.

• 19.Hawaii is America’s youngest state, entering the nation on August 21, 1959.

Arizona• 2.The Arizona trout is

found only in the Arizona. • 4.Arizona leads the nation

in copper production. • 5.Petrified wood is the

official state fossil. Most petrified wood comes from the Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona.

• Arizona is a right-to-work state. The law states no person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of non-membership in a labor organization.

• Arizona is home of the Grand Canyon National Park.

New jersey• New Jersey is the only

state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.

• New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S.

• New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U.S. located in Elizabeth.

• New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.

• 19.Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly

Texas• The Texas state capitol

building in Austin is taller than the United States capitol building in Washington, D.C.

• Biggest Chicken-Fried Steaks in the World

• Largest State Fair is the Texas State Fair located in Big "D" (Dallas to all you Yankees!) on a whopping 50 acres at Fair Park

• The world's biggest Roadrunner is Pisano Pete. The 11-foot tall and 20-foot long roadrunner graces the corner of Main Street and Hwy 290 in Fort Stockton, Texas.

• The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.

Utah• Levan, is "navel" spelled

backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of Utah

• The average snowfall in the mountains near Salt Lake City is 500 inches.

• Salt Lake City was originally named Great Salt Lake City. Great was dropped from the name in 1868.

• Rainbow Bridge, Nature's abstract sculpture carved of solid sandstone, is the world's largest natural-rock span. It stands 278 feet wide and 309 feet high.

• 13.State animal: The Rocky Mountain Elk.

Oklahoma• 34.Oklahoma's four

mountain ranges include the Ouachita's, Arbuckle's, Wichita's and the Kiamichi's.

• 27.Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He grew up in Yukon, Oklahoma.

• 23.Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the Tribal capital of the Cherokee Nation.

• 36.Oklahoma was the setting for the movie "Twister".

• 44.Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over one million surface acres of water

Pennsylvania • Pennsylvania is the first

state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate.

• In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.

• Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States

• In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.

• In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer.