Saturday, June 27, 2026 · america_250
America 250 · Originals
5 questions · 1000 points possible. Below are the prompts, hints, and target locations from this pack.
Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. Five American originals — inventors, activists, and writers whose hometowns mark where the ideas started.
- 01
Drop a pin on the home where Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880 — where Anne Sullivan later spelled W-A-T-E-R into her hand.
● North Seminary Street — Florence, Alabama, United States
- Target
- 34.8044°, -87.6770°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 02
Drop a pin on the river town where Mark Twain grew up — the model for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's St. Petersburg.
● North Main Street — Hannibal, Missouri, United States
- Target
- 39.7100°, -91.3559°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 03
Drop a pin on the pond where Henry David Thoreau lived for two years writing 'Walden' — a cabin not far from town.
● Ice Fort Cove Road — Concord, Massachusetts, United States
- Target
- 42.4380°, -71.3417°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 04
Drop a pin on the bicycle shop where the Wright brothers tested gliders and built the first airplane — winters at home, summers at Kitty Hawk.
● South Main Street — Dayton, Ohio, United States
- Target
- 39.7589°, -84.1916°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts
- 05
Drop a pin on the cabin where John Muir hosted Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 — the meeting that built the modern national park system.
● Mariposa County — California, United States
- Target
- 37.8651°, -119.5383°
- Cap
- 932 mi
- Weight
- 200 pts