Fun State Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. The world's first drive-in movie theater, built in 1933 near Camden
  2. 5. Artificial rain, first used near Concord in 1947 to fight a forest fire
  3. 9. Mark Twain and some of his characters, such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
  4. 12. The only royal palace in the U.S. (Iolani)
  5. 15. The first log cabins in North America, built in 1683 by Swedish immigrants
  6. 16. ?General Sherman,? a 3,500-year-old tree, and a stand of bristlecone pines 4,000 years old are the world's oldest living things
  7. 23. The tallest building in the U.S., Sears Tower, in Chicago
  8. 25. The famous car race: the Indy 500
  9. 26. The only active diamond mine in the U.S.
  10. 28. The oldest rock in the world, 3.8 billion years old, found in Minnesota River valley
  11. 29. The first umbrella factory in the U.S., 1928, Baltimore
  12. 30. Coca-Cola, first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg
Down
  1. 1. The world's largest silver nugget (1,840 pounds) found in 1894 near Aspen
  2. 2. The largest underground cave in the world: 300 miles long, the Mammoth-Flint Cave system
  3. 3. The Girl Scouts, founded in Savannah by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912
  4. 6. The most telescopes in the world, in Tucson
  5. 7. The most crayfish: 98% of the world's crayfish
  6. 8. The only roller skating museum in the world, in Lincoln
  7. 10. Rare fish such as the Devils Hole pup, found only in Devils Hole, and other rare fish from prehistoric lakes; also the driest state
  8. 11. The most easterly point in the U.S., West Quoddy Head1
  9. 13. The longest main street in America, 33 miles, in Island Park
  10. 14. Mexico ?Smokey Bear,? a cub orphaned by fire in 1950, buried in Smokey Bear Historical State Park in 1976
  11. 17. U.S. spacecraft launchings from Cape Canaveral, formerly Cape Kennedy
  12. 18. The first World Series, 1903: the Boston
  13. 19. The first American cookbook, published in Hartford in 1796: American Cookery by Amelia Simmons
  14. 20. The Cereal Bowl of America, Battle Creek, produces most cereal in the U.S.
  15. 21. The shortest and steepest railroad in the U.S., Dubuque: 60 incline, 296 feet
  16. 22. George Washington Carver, who discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts
  17. 24. The longest coastline in the U.S., 6,640 miles, greater than that of all other states combined
  18. 27. Grasshopper Glacier, named for the grasshoppers that can still be seen frozen in ice