Town Names

[buckeyefarmer]

and Athol is the butt of a few jokes.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Not a funny name but I can honestly say I grew up 2 mi from Dixie, Dixie Va that is. It is a cross roads that used to have a motel and restaurant on one side of the road and a trailer park on the other. Both are gone, just like the signs the state puts up. Everyone wants a Dixie sign! Ed

 

[Garandman]

Does Chappaquiddick Island count?

and Athol is the butt of a few jokes.

And if someone doesn't get it, we have a town named after them as well: Marblehead. (Also a village in Ohio on Lake Erie)

In Maine you can visit Belfast, Calais, China, Denmark, Lebanon, Mexico, Naples, Norway, Paris, Peru, Poland, Rome, Stockholm, Sweden, Vienna, and Wales: all in one day.

 

[gregfender]

I always wanted to retire to Loafers Glory here in NC. But I don't want to live on this street in Asheville, NC.

 

[gwstang]

Small town up the road from me is named "Flea Hop". :laughing:

 

[Rustyferrious]

I live in a little village in the town of Essex, CT. Ivoryton, so named due to a industry built on the tusks of untold thousands of dead elephants, 70-200 years ago. Piano keys, billiard balls, combs, jewelry, etc. A sad history really. Village streets are named ebony, ivory, keyboard, melody, harmony, chord, fife, etc. Old mills & factories are now converted to condos & warehouses.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

spratt, ohio Used to have a sign, and one house.

 

[Jim Shooz]

We have a lot of towns/places named in the native Maori language. One river is called the Tutaikuri river.
Kuri = dog Tutai = s**t.

 

[KevT]

No doubt in my mind how we got Wimauma (why mama) here in FL. Probably settled in the summer months

 

[RobertBrown]

Thonotosassa
A small town north of Tampa....don't bother.