Challenge: Make your home town a capital city

Sumeragi

Banned
Well....

Birthtown: Tokyo (obvious).
Spiritual hometown: Kyoto (previous capital could easily have the Meiji elders decide to just stay in Kyoto).
 
My hometown is St Louis, which is the largest city in Missouri. I could see it becoming the capital of an independent Missouri Republic if the CSA won the Civil War. The North, defeated and blockaded by foreign powers, is forced to cede Missouri and Kentucky to the South. However, Missouri, with its large number of free-soilers, and its hybrid culture, declares its independence from the CSA. Then, in 1894, a huge fire nearly destroys Jefferson City. The national government flees to St. Louis, which is established as, first the temporary, then the permanent capital. Missouri will eventually merged back into the USA after an agrarian socialist revolution breaks out in 1919, and US and British troops intervene to crush the socialists.
 
My hometown is a few miles from DC, so if the district is moved a few miles west/NW with the capitol somewhere in Upper Northwest-maybe Virginia pitches a massive fit about losing Alexandria* and the decision is made to try and expand the port of Georgetown instead- it would include the part of my hometown I live in.
*Did it OTL? I honestly don't know.
Congress voted to put the capitol somewhere on the Potomac and left the exact site up to George Washington so they wouldn't have to vote on it again. (It only got through narrowly with a deal between Hamilton and Jefferson.) So, it'd be really easy to move it. I've been toying with the idea of having Harper's Ferry be the capitol, even.
 
Cuban Missile Crisis escalates. Nukes fly. All major cities gone except Seattle (Soviet nuke aiming there randomly happened to be a dud). US government relocates to the Pacific Northwest as it is the only non-radioactive spot in the country. They happen to choose the spot my hometown is situated on as the location of the new capital. Wow, that was easier than I thought. :p
 
Alright, this is going to be a stetch but, here it goes:
1811: Somehow, the Indians win the Battle of Tippecanoe but Prophet's Town is heavily damaged, and gain control of Ohio with British assistance.
1812: The Treaty of *Ghent* is delayed. The British take New Orleans, and have more leverage at the peace table, so Tecumseh's Confederacy is set up as a buffer state between the US and Canada.
1814: After the last Americans have left or assimilated into the Confederacy, Tecumseh picks the now deserted town of Mansfield, (Renaming it in Shawnee) as the new capital.

So, not really plausible, but it fits the specs. :)
 
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