Elsener Us History 1 Eastern Cities

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While the city is historically known for its steel industry, today it is largely based on healthcare, education, technology, robotics, and financial services. The city has made great strides in redeveloping abandoned industrial sites with new housing, shopping and offices.

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Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

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This city is considered a part of the Greater Pittsburg Metropolitan area. It was originally a settlement in the British Colony of Virginia and later an important city in the Commonwealth of Virginia until 1861 when the western counties of Virginia seceded from the state.

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Wheeling West, Virginia

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This low swampy ground in central New York is the home of the Orange Men.

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Syracuse, New York

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America’s number one immigration city known as the Big Apple.

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New York City, New York

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This city in New Jersey is a short distance from New York and has one of the busiest international airports in the country.

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Newark, NJ

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This city is the largest city in the state of Minnesota.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Nicknamed the "Insurance Capital of the World", this city in Connecticut houses many of the world's insurance company headquarters, and insurance remains the region's major industry. Almost 400 years old, it is among the oldest cities in the United States.

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Hartford Connecticut

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This city was founded in 1630 by the Puritans. At first the people settled at Charlestown, which had been founded the year before. However fresh water was short so most of the new settlers moved across the river to a peninsula where the city started.

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Boston, Massachusetts

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This city in Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers to settle.

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Providence, Rhode Island

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This city of brotherly love is where the Constitution was written.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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This city on Chesapeake bay in Maryland is home to the “Birds”.

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Baltimore Maryland

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This city on the Potomac River belongs to no U.S. State.

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Washington, D.C

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In this city Patrick Henry delivered his famous, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death," speech. During the Civil War it became the Capital of the Confederacy.

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Richmond, Virginia

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This Ohio City on Lake Erie was once an industrial giant. It is also the town Jim Brown ran in.

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Cleveland, Ohio

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This port city in Minnesota on Lake Superior is the 4th largest city of the state. It was originally inhabited by people of the Chippewa tribe.

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Duluth, Minnesota

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This is the largest city in Wisconsin and is home to Marquette University named after the famous Jesuit that explored the area in the 1670s.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Because it occupies a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi river bank, the area is a natural location for a settlement. The area was first settled by the Mississippi Indian Culture and then by the Chickasaw Indian tribe. This city in Tennessee is home to The Blues, great BBQ and was home to Elvis.

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Memphis, Tennessee

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This city is home to LSU, is the Capital of Louisiana, and their capitol building was designed by the same man that designed Nebraska’s.

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Baton Rouge Louisiana

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During the War of 1812, the British sent their best forces to conquer this city in Louisiana. Despite great challenges, the young Andrew Jackson successfully cobbled together a motley crew of local militia, free persons of color, United States regulars, Kentucky riflemen and area pirates to decisively defeat the British troops. Today it is known for it great food and Jazz music.

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New Orleans, Louisiana

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This town is on the Florida Gulf Coast and is home to the Buccaneers.

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Tampa, Florida

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This Florida City holds the distinction of being the only major city in the United States founded by a woman, Julia Tuttle, who was a local citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native. Today it is the largest city in Florida.

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Miami, Florida

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This city in Georgia is an important cultural center and is the largest city in Georgia.

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Atlanta, Georgia

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It was the advent of the Grand Ole Opry in 1925, combined with an already thriving publishing industry, that positioned it to become "Music City USA".

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Nashville, Tennessee

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This city is situated in north-central Kentucky on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. Today it is home to the Cardinals.

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Louisville, Kentucky

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This city located in Ohio has the ugliest uniforms in the NFL.

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Cincinnati, Ohio

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This Midwest Giant is home to the Blues, the Cubs and the Bears.

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Chicago, Illinois

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This Michigan City is located on the waterway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. This city was home to The MO-Town Sound and once an auto manufacturer giant.

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Detroit, Michigan

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This city is the second most populous city in the state of New York, and Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie. Originating around 1789 as a small trading community near Buffalo Creek, it grew quickly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.

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Buffalo, New York