Santa Claus, Indiana, with a strong year-round commitment to the holiday, calls itself America’s Christmas Home Town. In the late 1920s, the postmaster began to promote the town and pretty soon, children’s letters to Santa began pouring in. [All towns at this link]
Many of the “towns” shown aren’t small towns at all.
They missed Bethlehem, GA – population about 600 (now that’s a small town). The local post office gets hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail at Christmas so they will reflect a postmark of “Bethlehem”. Even the street names reference the Nativity.
And in keeping with the Christmas spirit, the single traffic light in town even cycles between red and green at regular intervals too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem,_Georgia
I’ve been to North Pole, Alaska. It’s the home of Santa. It’s pretty cool.
Yup-Leavenworth, WA is awfully pretty during Xmas but it awfully crowded. Went to the tree lighting years before it was popular-now it’s standing room only. It’s a wonderful area to go snowmobiling-near Lake Wenatchee and Plain. 👍❄️
Illustr8r- Leavenworth was once in my backyard. I grew up in Everett. Do they still have that funky looking Safeway store there?
@Bman Yes, it’s still there with the arched entry windows and script capital letters…still Bavarian. 😊
We always go to the Cheesemonger Shoppe and eat at the Waffle Haus. 👍
I’ve delivered flowers to that particular Safeway store before. It is one of the truly more unique, one of a kind Safeway stores I’ve ever been to. They also missed the very tiny town of Santa, Id., just SE of St. Maries, Id. about 20 miles or so on Hwy. 3.
The small town of Winthrop in the Methow Valley up in the N. Cascades of Wash. state should also qualify for a great Christmas place just because of it’s sheer beauty. My daughter in law who grew up there and my son and granddaughter are up there right now celebrating Christmas with her family. It’s one of those places like the Wallowa Valley in NE Oregon where if I had sufficient money to live there I’d move there in a heartbeat.
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