Place names

[Magpie]

Found this as part of some research; love these kinds of stories. Any of you folks got some more?
https://www.wackyexplorer.com/where-is-two-egg-florida/

 

[LadyLocust]

Drain, OR

 

[Pearl]

Cut and Shoot, Tx and Bug Tussle, Tx!!

 

[Amish Heart]

Of course there is Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania

 

[backlash]

Boring, OR
Knob Lick, MO

 

[SheepDog]

George, Washington and Martha, Washington.
Imaginative ... no.

 

[Neb]

Near by I can make a right on Just About road if I go straight to 84 PA. Just About gets me to Bebout where Turkey Foot ends.

I live in Library PA which used to be Loafer's Hollow.

Ben

 

[snappy1]

Found this as part of some research; love these kinds of stories. Any of you folks got some more?
https://www.wackyexplorer.com/where-is-two-egg-florida/

I've been to and through Two Egg many times. Little tiny town (or it was) haven't been there in years.

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

We spent several Winters there. Love that town!

 

[dademoss]

Don't know why, but I've always been kinda partial to:

 

[Caribou]

One Alaskan winter during the goldrush the prospectors pretty much lived off the ptarmigan. There wasn't much they could do when everything was frozen so they sat around drinking and decided to name their community after the bird that provided so much of their sustenance. One long night after another they argued over the proper way to spell ptarmigan. The community is still there. If you get a chance stop by and visit Chicken, Alaska. It was the only way to settle the argument.

 

[Peanut]

I found this checking bluegrass festivals this fall. Two weeks from now there is a festival in the little town of Remlap, Alabama. More like a wide spot in the road with a stop sign.

The town was named after the Palmer family. But for some reason, long ago the locals voted to spell Palmer backwards - Remlap. (obviously someone peed in their gene pool ).

There is even a Remlap Baptist church..

 

[Pearl]

Don't know why, but I've always been kinda partial to:

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Uh oh, going back to it as an avatar?? Pretty cool!

 

[Patchouli]

There's also a Bugtussle, Kentucky and one in Oklahoma. Mud Lick, KY. Black Gnat, KY. Chavies, Krypton, and Hazard, all right there in KY.

 

[dademoss]

Been through Hazard KY, you get strange looks when you are driving a smart Car

 

[LadyLocust]

 

[Peanut]

This place has a neat story... on this road there is a church w/cemetery known by the same name. First, just the cemetery. Long ago summer tent revivals were held beside it before the church was built. In the deep south these events were sometimes called "a camp meeting".

Don't know when it started but today the church and the road are called bone camp.

Funny part, many decades ago the church members voted and changed the name of the church, gave it more tradition name. In my life I've never heard anyone refer to the church as anything beside "Bone Camp".

I guess some names stick... I smile if I drive by and see the big sign in front of the church with the other name.

(I avoid this road because of very bad curves and 200ft drops. when the sign says 10mph, they mean it!)

 

[Magus]

Found this as part of some research; love these kinds of stories. Any of you folks got some more?
https://www.wackyexplorer.com/where-is-two-egg-florida/

Inspiring! and thus the trading post of "Half clip" was born.
Wait for the book.

 

[Morgan101]

I have been through Stinking Creek, TN. Don't really know how it got the name, but it may be self evident.

There is a Conception Junction, MO, but I couldn't find anything interesting about the name. It does raise some eyebrows.

 

[zoomzoom]

Two towns close by to me in PA.
Moon
Mars

 

[Magpie]

This place has a neat story... on this road there is a church w/cemetery known by the same name. First, just the cemetery. Long ago summer tent revivals were held beside it before the church was built. In the deep south these events were sometimes called "a camp meeting".

Don't know when it started but today the church and the road are called bone camp.

Funny part, many decades ago the church members voted and changed the name of the church, gave it more tradition name. In my life I've never heard anyone refer to the church as anything beside "Bone Camp".

I guess some names stick... I smile if I drive by and see the big sign in front of the church with the other name.

(I avoid this road because of very bad curves and 200ft drops. when the sign says 10mph, they mean it!)


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Reminds me of Dead Horse, Alaska

 

[Magus]

I have been through Stinking Creek, TN. Don't really know how it got the name, but it may be self evident.

There is a Conception Junction, MO, but I couldn't find anything interesting about the name. It does raise some eyebrows.

It is when the water is down.

 

[Bacpacker]

I have been through Stinking Creek, TN. Don't really know how it got the name, but it may be self evident.

There is a Conception Junction, MO, but I couldn't find anything interesting about the name. It does raise some eyebrows.

I work with a guy that lives near stinking creek. Used to be lots of coal mining in the area. My bet is the name is somehow related to that

 

[Curmudgeon]

Of course there is Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

And we have Climax, Michigan.....................lol.

 

[Peanut]

And we have Climax, Michigan.....................lol.

And the directions are "You can't get there from here!"