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.

 

[Garycw]

Have you ever been to **** Michigan? It's north of Ann Arbor. I just got censored. :laughing: It's an unincorporated town that starts with an H and ends with 2 L's. Here is the towns web site; ****, Michigan - ****, Michigan's Official Website Even the web site got censored :laughing: Click on it, it still goes to their web site

Reminds me of a realtors sign I saw once. Her name was Helen Waite. Her motto was to go to her for your real estate needs.

 

[Trkrd]

Not far from me is a small town called Ink. As the story goes, when they applied for township, The official form specified "Please print in ink".

 

[jerrybob]

There's a town in Southwest Wa. named Lebam..........Mabel spelled backwards named after the daughter of the town's founder.

 

[Clay45]

Sugar Tit, SC

 

[jerrybob]

Anybody ever been to Boring, Oregon? Take a book if you go.....not much to do.

 

[Leejohn]

Sugar Tit, SC

Read this about your town. Sugar Tit received its name when the men spent so long socializing at the local general store, their wives complained they took to the store like a baby to a sugar tit.

A good one!!!!!

 

[Bluest]

Where I live, it's how stuff is pronounced that is weird.

Whitworth, pronounced Witerth
Slaithwaite, pronounced Slowit
Mytholmroyd, no one seems to agree on that one, but it's funny listening to the train conductor call the stop.

 

[RoyJackson]

Intercourse PA,

Don't forget Blue Ball, PA!

 

[oosik]

Small unincorporated town - north of me. Bluestem. No body seems to know how it got its name.

 

[rtimgray]

Paducah, KY sits halfway between Monkey's Eyebrow and Possum Trot....