There are places in America where the map seems to have made a clerical error. There are buildings that look like hotels but contain a government nobody is supposed to know about. And there are towns that disappear so completely that the land remembers them better than the people do. This is Strange America. I am Lenny Voss. Today, we are looking at three American places that make ordinary geography, government, and history behave strangely.
In this episode:
• The West Virginia Resort That Hid Congress Underground
• Point Roberts: The American Town You Reach Through Canada
• New Philadelphia: The Town a Freed Slave Built on the Illinois Frontier
Sources & further reading:
• The Greenbrier Goes to War: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-greenbrier-goes-to-war.htm
• Point Roberts Historical Society: https://www.prhistory.org/
• Ahead of Its Time?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ahead-of-its-time-106143603/
