List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve
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Many cities towns in the United States, in imitation of the famous "ball drop" conducted annually at midnight on December 31 in Times Square, similarly drop items on New Year's Eve as part of local celebrations. Although some of the objects may seem peculiar, practically all relate to some aspect local history, geography, or culture.
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Alabama
- Wetumpka, Alabama - 4-foot metal ball
Arizona
Georgia
- Atlanta, Georgia - a peach
- Cornelia, Georgia - an apple
Florida
- Key West, Florida - a conch shell, a pirate wench and a red high-heel shoe
- Miami, Florida - an orange
Kansas
- Manhattan, Kansas - a 5-foot aluminium ball
Maine
- Bangor, Maine - a purple beach ball decorated with Christmas lights.
Maryland
Michigan
- Marquette, Michigan - a metal ball
New Jersey
- Point Pleasant, New Jersey - a mossbunker fish
New York
- New York City - 1,070-pound Waterford Crystal ball
North Carolina
- Brasstown, North Carolina - a live opossum in a cage
- Mount Olive, North Carolina - a pickle
- Raleigh, North Carolina - an acorn
Ohio
- Port Clinton, Ohio - a walleye fish, named "Captain Wylie Walleye"
Pennsylvania
- Cleona, Pennsylvania - a pretzel
- Dillsburg, Pennsylvania a pickle
- Duncannon, Pennsylvania - a sled
- Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania - a giant M&M
- Falmouth, Pennsylvania - a stuffed goat
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - a strawberry
- Hanover, Pennsylvania - a black rose (discontinued)
- Hummelstown, Pennsylvania - a lollipop
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania - a red rose
- Lebanon, Pennsylvania - a bologna
- Liverpool, Pennsylvania - a canal boat
- Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania - a wrench
- New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania - a huckleberry
- Newville, Pennsylvania - spring
- Red Lion, Pennsylvania - a cigar
- Shippensburg, Pennsylvania - an anchor
- York, Pennsylvania - a white rose
Tennessee
- Knoxville, Tennessee - ball, but the ball will rise instead of falling.
Ŕ==Virginia==
