January 23, 201114 yr I dig the courthouse. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 24, 201114 yr Pontiac is a nice town; I've been there a few times. Every year on Labor Day Weekend, they host one of the oldest and best-known of the various old-time farm equipment shows, with steam threshing, sawmilling, and various other activites. They get huge crowds. It looks like they've finished the windows in the courthouse; I remember seeing it over a period of time with the top halves of all the windows covered over, and I hoped they didn't plan to keep it that way. It looks great. Edit: Here's what the windows looked like. They were like this for several years, and although at first I thought it was temporary, I was beginning to wonder:
January 25, 201114 yr So this is the town they named the car after, huh? There's a memorial on the courthouse square bearing a plaque that tells a little bit about Ottawa Chief Pontiac and the 18th-century native American rebellion against the British. Not all historians agree regarding the importance in that uprising, but it became popularly known as Pontiac's Rebellion.
April 27, 201114 yr First time I've ever laid eyes on this city, and I have to say that I like what I see...and as others have noted, the courthouse is a rock star!
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