Strange town names

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paul

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In Mass we have:

Billerica (pronounced Bill-Ricka)
Florida
Assonet
Gay Head
Sandwich
Belchertown
Braintree
New Braintree
 
Around here we have:

Hellertown

Quakertown

Harleysville

Sinking Spring (but it's not really sinking)

Where I grew up we had:

Manns Choice

Mattie

Mench

And of course, the town of motels - Breezewood, PA.
 
Tennessee has a slew of them.

Fly
Arp
Cobbler's Nob
Bucksnort
Needmore
Bybee


Just off the top of my head.
 
Interestingly enough not too far from "Blue Balls" is another PA town....


Intercourse
 
HAHA! That's some good stuff. HS, never heard of Blue Balls. :P

We have a Bangor too. Which always elicits the joke - "Are you going to Bangor? Bangor? Heck I hardly even know her!"
 
around here we have

Pea Ridge
Lucky
Friendship
Homer
Choudrant (shoe-drant)
Haynesville
Sharon
 
Remembering Bucksnort (which I have actually been to) made me remember another strange town name with a B. I pulled a Google, and got these JUST FROM B:

Backwoods
Bucklick
Buzzards Roost
Booz
Boston (2 of those)
Bob
Bogota
Boring
Buzzard
Buttery
Barcheers
Barefoot
Boy
Big Lick
Bagdad
Brown Place
Butterfly
Busted
Brynffynon :blink:
 
Bird in hand, blue ball, intercourse, & paradise are all within a 20 mile radius of each other if I'm not mistaken.....
 
Not nearly as funny as some of them, but I have seen these in KS

Protection, Kansas
Speed, Kansas
Buttermilk, KS
Gas, KS
Moonlight, KS
Petrolia, KS

Missouri has some interesting ones:

Economy
Tightwad
Romance
Bachelor
Sunrise
Sunset
Climax Springs


There is Dead Horse, Alaska.
Monkey's Eyebrow,AZ and Monkey's Eyebrow, KY
Two Egg, FL
Big Beaver Lick, KY
Buttzville, NJ
Half.com, OR
Idiotville, OR
Boring, OR
Pumpkin Buttes, WY
 
I live in Lizard Lick North Carolina we got our own mascot a great big iguania(sp) and there is a mianus Pa
 
There is Hell Michigan!!
I watch the Caroline Rahe show ( Nothing ele son at that time) and a few weeks ago she called a city tour guide. She guide said she loved her job bc she had the right to tell people to "Go to Hell" on a daily basis
 
Here's a couple from Ohio

Bacon Flat
Bobo
Footville
Fly
Wapakoneta
Whiskeyville
Devil Town
 
Andover
Averys Gore
Barnard
Bellows Falls
Bloomfield
Bread Loaf
Chester
Cuttingsville
Dummerston
Hyde Park
Londonderry
Waitsfield
Wells
and a whole mess of other towns ending with "-field", "-town", "-ville", and "-ford".

Vermont: "We Think Up Stupid Names Because We Have Nothing Better To Do."
 
Here in Wisconsin we have:

Alma
Argyle
Beetown
Beaver
Bruce
Butternut
Embarrass
Fence
Colby
Gordon
Gays Mills
Pebbles
Siren
Tony
Waldo
Zenda
 
how about this:Westwego,LA
Passyourgoola,Mississippi
(I spelled that like it is pronounced.) :D
 
You can't forget about Reminderville, Ohio.

My dad was born in Rock Cave, West Virginia.
 
Tn-Ward-Fan...You forgot Ducktown and Soddy Daisey in Tn. I once lived in South Carolina in a town named North, South Carolina. Then there is Ninety Six and Six Mile also in S. C. :yawner:
 
just a sample of good ol' IL

Annawan
Assumption
Bannockburn
Barry
Bartlett - Isn't that a pear?
Batavia
Beardstown
Cerro Gordo
Cave in Rock
Hoopeston
justice
Paw Paw
Prairie du Rocher
Sandwich
Viola
 
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