This is my city.
Mattoon.
Population 18,291.
Just some facts.
- Site of the Mad Gasser attacks in the 1940s.
- Local settlers marked out the plots for sale with pegs, and the village was originally known as “Pegtown.”\
- In 1861, the town was officially named after William B. Mattoon, the chief construction engineer working for the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad.
- Amish Capital of Southern Illinois
- Self-styled “Baseball Capital of the World”
- Self-declared “Bagel Capital of the World.”
- On December 18, 2007, Mattoon was chosen to be the site of the U.S. Department of Energy’s FutureGen zero emission power plant.
Video tour of Mattoon we showed at First Assembly.
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The mad gasser of Matton attacks reminds me of a story from growing up in Kincaid. in the winter of my freshman year, someone terrorized KHS by peeing on the bathroom radiators. The smell of scalding urine is pretty nasty and would fill the entire school. The culprit was never identified, but gained an infamous nickname, The Mad Pisser.
LOVED THE VIDEO. very cool idea.