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The city of St. Louis is located in the state of Missouri on the western bank of the Mississippi River, close to where it meets the Missouri River. The city's population peaked in the years following World War II, at 856,000. As of the last census count in 2017, the population was at 308,626. St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders and became part of the United States in 1803, as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The city is home to two professional sports teams, the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and the St. Louis Blues hockey team as well as the headquarters for Anheuser-Busch. A well known and popular landmark, the Gateway Arch, is located downtown. It is the world's tallest arch at 630 feet.

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Indianapolis is the state capital of Indiana and the largest city in the state with a population of 863,002.  It is home to the world-famous Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis Colts football team, and Indiana Pacers basketball team.  The name Indianapolis is a combination of Indiana meaning “Indian Land” and polis, which is the Greek word for city.  Indiana gained statehood in 1816 and adopted “The Crossroads of America” as the official state motto in 1937 since 4 major interstate highways connect in the state.  The Chamber of Commerce Building was built in 1926 and stands to this day.

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Roton Point is an area of Norfolk, Connecticut that has been a place to go for relaxation for almost 150 years. In 1880, the area became popular for its amusement park and the big bands of the era that performed there. After the amusement park was torn down in 1941, Roton Point became a family beach club that marketed a “casually elegant” location for summer activities.

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New York is one of the most populous and influential US states, home to over 20 million people. Despite having been surpassed in the 21st century by California and Texas in population and economic metrics, New York nevertheless has a higher GDP than most countries in the world. 

The heart of its preeminence is New York City, which is the largest United States metropolis with a population of around 8.5 million as of 2023. The city is considered a cultural icon, and is among the most ethnically and religiously diverse urban centers in the US. More than half of all people and goods that have entered the country came in through its port, emphasizing the city’s cosmopolitan and commercial significance. 

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Mountain Home is situated in the southern Ozark mountains of northern Arkansas, between two lakes. The area was settled by Anglo-Americans in the early eighteenth century, and originally known as Rapp’s Barren, after the first permanent Anglo-American settler. The origins of the name “Mountain Home” are unclear, though legend claims that slaves named the area for the cooling breezes coming down off the mountains. During the Civil War, the area was embroiled in guerilla warfare, which resulted in Union-aligned forces burning the school in Mountain Home. The town became the seat of Baxter County in 1873, though it was not incorporated as a city until 1888.

In the 1930s, the area suffered from a drought and the Great Depression. Locals lost their farms and left the area in search of work. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) and other New Deal programs provided work for those who remained. Workers constructed key construction projects including bridges and a new courthouse. The construction of two dams in the 1940s and 1950s created jobs and reduced the risk of flooding, which revitalized farming in the region. The establishment of a large fish hatchery near the Norfork dam helped attract fishermen. Today, the city is known for freshwater fishing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. It is popular with retirees and vacationers.

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Des Moines is the capitol city of the state of Iowa. Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the area. Fort Des Moines was founded in part to keep the Native Americans separated from the colonial settlers and gain control of the area for the settlers. The town of Fort Des Moines was chartered in 1853 and shorted to “Des Moines” in 1858. It became a mining town and benefited from trade with its prime location on two rivers.

It is likely that this is an artifact from a 1922 Des Moines Chamber of Commerce membership campaign that advertised Des Moines as “a central city with a central market.” Early advertising from 1920 promoted Des Moines as the distribution center of the “greatest producing section of the globe.”

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Kingston is a city located in eastern Ontario, Canada on the shore of Lake Ontario. It was established as a French trading post and military fortification in 1673 named Fort Cataraqui, then in 1785, British Loyalists took possession of the fort and renamed the area Kingston Township.

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Boothbay Harbor is a town in Maine that can be traced back to 1666 when the English established a fishing camp. Through the years it became a well-established fishing center and nowadays, it is a popular yachting and tourist destination in the summer.

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Smokey was an 11 foot-tall, 7 ton African bull elephant who was housed at the Oakland Zoo in California for over 25 years. He was well-known for being one of three male elephants in North America capable of breeding and he was also known for killing one of the zoo's animal keepers in 1991. The trampling death of the zookeeper led to new methods of caring for elephants in captivity that did not require the trainers to be in direct contact with the animals. Smokey passed away in 2001 from an unknown illness.