Centralia

There's a history here, and it's almost two on the nose.

The first practical earth anchor was invented in 1912 by a man named Albert Bishop Chance in Centralia, Missouri.

Not by a geotechnical engineer, by a man whose telephone poles had just been knocked down by an ice storm.

Winter weather invented the earth anchor.

He needed his poles to stay up, and the ground was the problem, so he invented the thing that fixes the ground.

Centralia still holds an annual Anchor Day festival for it.

A town festival for a fastener.

That's the correct response.