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Consolidated city-counties
- Jacksonville, FloridaJacksonville, Florida is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.
- Nashville, TennesseeIn February 1862, Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to U.S. troops.
- Louisville, KentuckyLouisville, Kentucky, is the only city in the world with four heavyweight boxing champions born there.
- DenverDenver was named for a governor who had already resigned. General William Larimer staked the townsite in 1858.
- IndianapolisIn 1970, Indianapolis merged with its county and gained more than 300 square miles overnight.
- New OrleansIn 1768, New Orleans residents briefly seized their own city to make France take it back.
- Kansas City, KansasKansas City, Kansas, began in 1857 as a town built by Wyandot Native Americans and Methodist missionaries.
- Macon, GeorgiaMacon, Georgia, sits on land people have lived on for roughly 13,000 years.
- PhiladelphiaIn 1777, the Liberty Bell was hidden under a church floor for nine months.
- San FranciscoGold rush sailors abandoned about 500 ships in San Francisco's harbor. Many became storehouses, saloons and hotels.