The Grass Is Greener

[GlueGuy]

I'll keep that in mind Harv, but don't hold your breath. Since our friends moved from Jackson up to Oregon, I bet we won't be heading up that way quite as often as we used to. However, the trails around Kirkwood are still some of our favorites...

Maybe one of these days I'll do that bike ride that winds around Markleyville. What's it called? Oh yeah the Deathride. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

The GlueGuy

 

[Phred]

Farmerbob,

It could be worse... at least he is now a new yorker!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Phred

 

[JATO_RaT]

Thats right, poor New York.

 

[patton]

We have a town in Alabama named Abanda. The story is it was a notation on a railway map that indicated a siding that was no longer used. Since the railroad had the best maps, people began to think that was the name of the town.

My county has a Ourtown and a Goldville. Goldville became a rough place to live because of the miners living there, so the original residents moved down the road to a new area which they dubbed the new site. Now Newsite, AL has a school, and a dozen or more stores, and goldville has a single store, which might not be there if it weren't that it is just a mile or so inside the county line adjacent to a dry county.

But some of my favorites com from working in telecommunications where each microwave or fiber optic repeater is given the name of the nearest town or other location. On one link, running up the east coast out of Atlanta, we have a Biggerstaff, Dobson's Knob, Grandpa's Knob and a Cowpens. The latter is a real city. We have a satellite uplink in Florida in Ft Lonesome (trust me, it fits).

Pat

 

[Wingnut]

Western Canada is much given to the english translation of the indian name fro a place, hence:
Red Deer, MooseJaw, Buffalo Narrows, Head Smashed In Jumping, Stony Plain, Grassland, Cold Lake, Elk Point, Battle River, etc

too bad that common sense ain't

 

[MarkV]

One of my favorites is outside of Tallahassee, Fla. and is named Coon Bottom.

 

[scruffy]

One I always got a kick out of was in Oregon and named WhoreHouse Flats, until the Forest Service got on it's high horse and renamed in Naughty Girl Meadow. The U.S.F.S. did that to several places within the Nat'l Forest about a decade or so ago.

 

[JATO_RaT]

Where I live is south of "Paradise" and just north of "Cool". All of which are north of "Hell for Sure". Rat...

 

[jimmoore]

Woodruff County,AR has a "Niggerhead Corner"." Dead Man Corner"." Pumpkin Bend" and "Dummy Line Road"

jim

 

[RSeymour]

Hell, Michigan & my favorite - Climax, Michigan