Colleges: University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Chippewa Valley Technical College #9 – Oxford, MS Points: 5 Cost of living: 82.9 Unemployment rate: 2.5% Crime rate: 13.6 A tiny town in Mississippi, Oxford has a population of only 20,000. This makes it one of the smallest college towns...
According to the Monroe County Historical Association, the name might've come from the legend of a bottomless lake where swimmers could sink into the depths of hell. While local legend tells of a possible speak-easy there (at least according to The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)...
12. Bayfield, Wisconsin (Ice caves on Lake Superior near Bayfield © Susan Dykstra/Design Pics/Corbis) Mother Nature is the undeniable draw in Bayfield, where the otherworldly magic of the ice caves at theApostle Islands National Lakeshorehas drawn record visitors the past few years after intens...
Nearside refers to the fact the car would pick up and discharge passengers on the “nearside” of an intersection rather than the “farside” as the previous generation of “conventional” cars did (this method of operation caused frequent gridlock, as the stopped cars blocked cross traffic). ...
12. Bayfield, Wisconsin (Ice caves on Lake Superior near Bayfield © Susan Dykstra/Design Pics/Corbis) Mother Nature is the undeniable draw in Bayfield, where the otherworldly magic of the ice caves at theApostle Islands National Lakeshorehas drawn record visitors the past few years after intens...