Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Following the 1953 death of renowned athlete and Olympic medal winner Jim Thorpe, Thorpe's widow and third wife, Patricia, was angry when the government of Oklahoma would not erect a memorial to honor him.^[4] When she heard that the boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were desperately seeking to attract business, she made a deal with civic officials. The boroughs merged, renamed the new municipality in Jim Thorpe's honor, bought the athlete's remains from his wife and erected a monument to the Oklahoma native, who began his sports career 100 miles (161 kilometres) southwest, as a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The monument site contains his tomb, two statues of him in athletic poses, and historical markers describing his life story. The grave rests on mounds of soil from Thorpe's native Oklahoma and from the Stockholm Olympic Stadium in which he won his Olympic medals.

We were going to stop at Jim Thorpe yesterday for a late lunch.  It's a really neat town.  The buildings are the same as 100 years ago.  The whole town is an historical site.  There's a great pub there called The Molly McGuire (those striking miners were local).  Unbeknownst to us, they were having a street fair.  Took 40 minutes to go a half mile and parking was about 2 miles out.  Drove straight through.  We did, however, find the spot where Jim Thorpe is buried.  Interesting place should you be in the neighborhood.