Which Stamps Represent Your Hometown?

I was thinking that a thread in which people could share images of stamps that represent the people, places, events or any other topic that represents their hometown or local area would be interesting.

I'm in Hoosick Falls, New York. It's a small place, but it's also where the art of Grandma Moses was discovered:



This painting is actually of Geneva, New York but her paintings were discovered in a drug store in Hoosick Falls when they sold for les than $10 each. Her paintings now sell for five to seven figures each.

Also just to the northeast is barely a place called Walloomsac, New York. It's just a road with some houses, but it's also home to where the Battle of Bennington took place on August 16, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. Today it's just a park with a grassy hill and historic markers.

Here's a small hint of mine

I would have to steal your Grandma Moses stamp, Trumansburg NY has yet to be memorialized on a postage stamp...though perhaps Robert Moog will one day grace one. He was the Inventor/Popularizer of the type of electronic music synthesizer that bears his name and his first lab and production facility was in TBurg, a young friend of mine's mother was his secretary back in 1969-70. Otherwise, it is notable as a bedroom community for Cornell University. John

Not a lot to choose from for Portland, Oregon, but I found a couple of neat zazzle stamps!

Every Canal Zone stamp printed in 1928 and later (with the exception of the prexie overprints).

A great many Panamanian stamps as well, such as this one, overprinted to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of Panama City (the capital of the country).

My town's "claim to fame" (Franklin, MA) is the Birthplace of Horace Mann and arguably the location of the First Public Library in America (although there are some who don't agree with that claim):

As for the only stamp issued in the town:



The Franklin Public Library monument:

I would have to say this one;

It has the mountain I can see and the flat treeless plain as well.

I thought about that Oregon stamp, but it's clearly from the East side of Mt Hood - which works pretty well for you!

Brian

Thanks Battlestamps for the interesting topic!

I am from Chicago, and 2.715 million people like my self call it home. As in most major cities you can find in it both the best and the worst. For this post, I will focus on something positive.

The world's first steel frame skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, was built here in Chicago in 1885; it was 10 stories and 138 feet high.

IMHO, the best looking skyscraper in the world is the 100 story John Hancock Center, and it represents Chicago well. The Hancock Center is a mixed-used building. It has an observation deck, retail stores and restaurants, indoor parking, and 856,000 square feet of office space--and floors 45 to 92 are residential condominiums. It is like a little city unto itself...and yes, it even has its own post office.

The John Hancock Center appeared as part of the 2005 Masterworks of Modern American Architecture set, Scott 3910L.

Brian - If ya look real hard you could find a couple of those wagons as well!! LOL
Stamp mole - that is an impressive building!!

This one reminds me of the time I fell asleep while floating near the Canal channel in an inner tube. Was woken up by the cool shadow of an aircraft carrier. The wake was fun to ride though.

Now you've piqued my interest. If you mentioned it before, I missed it. Are you Panamanian, grow up in a military family, a missionary family, or have a parent that was a civil engineer that worked for the government? Perhaps you stowed away in the landing gear of an airline and made it all the way to Panama?!?

Brian

Believe it or not, I actually have found one!

A buddy of mine works at the Big Muddy ranch in Antelope, whom I have visited numerous times. He took me out to a firewatch cabin in the middle of who-knows-where and on the way there, we stopped at the remnants of an old homestead. I found the remains of a wagon half-buried in the soil. It was a fun day!

Brian

My hometown is Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, in Western Europe. Among the number of stamps that honour our city I'll choose three:

1.- Church of Santa Maria del Mar (Our Lady on the sea). Built on the 14th century, is perhaps the nicest Gothic church in our town. It represents the power of middle age guilds.





2.- Olympic Stadium, built initially in 1930to hoist the 1936, which never happened, it was rebuilded in 1989 for the Games of the XXV Olympiad, on July-August 1992; the Paralympic Games of September 1992, also used the same venue. It's important to me, as I was heavily involved on both events.





3.- The Modernist Hospital of The Holy Cross and Saint Paul, built between 1905 and 1930, it's since 2005 a museum. One of the biggest structures on this style in the world. Opened to the public two months ago, it will become one of the tourisic landmarks of our (already overcrowed!) city. I like it very much and live at a short walk from it.

First - I never knew that the Grandma Moses stamp showed Geneva, NY, which is the city of my birth, so I will need to add that to my Stamps of Central New York exhibit. Thanks for the info.

Second, a similar thread called "Closest Stamp Geographically" began awhile back (sorry, I was unsure how to place that link here.)

As for myself, until this Geneca connection took hold, I would have said the steam engine (No. 999) in the Pan-American series for me. The photo was made by a Syracuse, NY photographer just a little west of the city as the engine attempted and set a new speed record.