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I thought it might be interesting if we could share with each other some of the names of towns and places, we've visited in our travels and any history about those names.

Here's just two that I found to be interesting. In Arkansas there is a place called "Toad Suck Ferry" I'm not sure how it got it's name, but I do know that when they built a bridge and got rid of the ferry they changed the name to just plain "Toad Suck".

Once while hiking the Appalacian Trail, we stopped and made camp at a place called "Pickens Nose", no joke.

I know some of you must have some real good ones that you've come across, maybe you live in one of those places with a unique name or perhaps you live near one of these spots.

Anyway, I thought it would be fun.

CajunCamper

I'd have to say two places.  Both were visited while out riding our quads.  One was Burro Schmidt Tunnel.  A 2087 foot tunnel that William "Burro" Schmidt dug by hand over the course of 38 years.

http://www.burroschmidttunnel.org/ (//%22http://www.burroschmidttunnel.org/%22)
 
 
 
The other was The Trona Pinnacles.  A place with rock formations that are jetting up from the ground.  Us older folk will remember them from the film Planet of the Apes.  Also Star Trek films, and Battlestar Galactica were filmed the because it really does look like you are on another planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trona_Pinnacles (//%22http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trona_Pinnacles%22)

I think for me it would have to be in your neck of the woods


the first one is Hickory, Dickory & Dock streets in Harahan, LA I think Dock connects Hickory & Dickory but not sure. DH told me the story behind it but I forgot.

and Tchoupitoulas Street in N'awls..Cajun camper will know how to say it :p
(I had to call DH and ask him how to spell it  :eyecrazy: )

I stopped to get gas outside of Reading, PA once and when I looked at the charge slip it read, "Duck In The Pond, PA". Also down the Jersey Shore in Ocean Beach is a small street called,"Goa Way".

I did some great diving in Ha'Apai Tonga  :p

Quote from: Dee4jI think for me it would have to be in your neck of the woods


the first one is Hickory, Dickory & Dock streets in Harahan, LA I think Dock connects Hickory & Dickory but not sure. DH told me the story behind it but I forgot.

and Tchoupitoulas Street in N'awls..Cajun camper will know how to say it :p
(I had to call DH and ask him how to spell it  :eyecrazy: )

Tchoupitoulas is pronounced: chop-a-tool-us

See, just like it's spelled.

CajunCamper

Quote from: CajunCamperTchoupitoulas is pronounced: chop-a-tool-us

See, just like it's spelled.

CajunCamper

ya exactly how it's spelled  :rolleyes:  :J  DH says up near yosemite the is a street named "dead End" Rd.

can't think of any Odd named towns or cities I've been too..

How about Buck Snort, TN?  I have never stopped but have driven past many times.  I also have no idea how that one got named, or if it's even two words.  There is also Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, TN.  That is named after someone whose last name was Peeler and nickname Tater.

There is a popular general store in Moonshine, Illinois (population 2).

http://www.clarkcountyil.org/Communities/moonshine.htm

I'm glad some one has asked this one. It seems there a quite a few interesting names especially in the Southeast of the U.S.. Last year I drove by one called "Big Bone Lick State Park" in Kentucky. Oddly enough it was located on a road called Beaver Rd.. After some research I found out it was named after the dinasour bones they found there in the 19th century that were well preserved due to the concentration of salt.
 
Now all I could think about is those poor Civil War Union soldiers coming into the south to fight that ran across these giant bones. Could you imagine coming across bones that are larger than you. I think I would have had to turn and run thinking there is no way we have the firepower to bring down the beasts they have in the south.  
 
http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/bb/ (//%22http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/bb/%22)

My wife bought a quilt from an Amish woman in Intercourse, Pa.

CajunCamper

We stopped at the Devil's Hop Yard State Park near Haddam, Connecticut...It got it's name for being a great area for moonshiners to make their booze back during prohibition in the twenties and early thirties....

I grew up in south Florida and my dad used to take us camping and fishing at Soupdoodle Creek which was near Cape Sable on the southwest coast of Florida. It is now part of the Everglades National Park and no camping is allowed there anymore....

Pennsylvania has several...there's Intercourse, which was mentioned....also Blue Ball, Climax, Paradise, Fertility.....

 
How about
Hot Coffee, Mississippi

there is Virginville Pa also

And I've been to Hell and back! :Z
Hell,MI that is.

You mean this place? :D


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/2867840080_16cc9c6142_o.jpg)

Quote from: K_and_IYou mean this place? :D

uh oh ...It looks like it froze over :yikes:

I've been to Nothing, AZ. I still haven't figured out how to put a picture with the post so here's a link to the picture.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sixinaz/Nothing#5247551776145030050

We've got a road that makes you itch just to say the name "Chigger City Road".  I've passed a few other cute road/area names:  Pickle Plant Road (must have been one years back), Beef Tongue Road are the two that come to mind at present.

I have a road close by called Little Guano Road. I would also add that I live in the Worlds only Fraziers Bottom.

Panther Burn, Itta Bena (Home in the Woods), Egypt, Nittayuma, D'Lo (short for Too Dam Low), SoSo, Kiln (pronounced KILL), Kilmichael (KILL MICHAEL), are ALL in Mississippi.

I forgot we have a Cairo and a Calcutta in WV.

When traveling in East Tennessee, you'll cross the French Broad River.

My father-in-law is from near Skullbone, TN.

One of most Middle Tennesseans' favorite places to camp is in Defeated, TN.

Larry