OT - Quaint Names (town, street, etc.)

[J Harp]

Eastern Kentucky has a passel of them. Here are a few.
Ogle, Black Snake, Shoulderblade, Turkey, Rowdy, Vest, Viper, Fisty, Cutshin, Thousandsticks, Softshell, Mousy, Decoy, Hi Hat, and Topmost. there are many more unique place names all over the Appalachian area.

[lynnl]

One of the key battles, late in our Revolutionary war, was at a place called Cowpens, in SC. From what I've been able to learn, it was just an area where the locals would gather together their livestock ...for sale, or further shipment, or some such - maybe just grazing. Always wanted to go there. Ol' Daniel Morgan gave Bloody Banistare Tarleton a whupping there with a very brilliant use of his inferior forces and the natural topography.

South of here, in Alabama, there's an area known as "Horsepens 40," which as far as I know is simply an area, not a community. Never really been there myself. I think it also relates to the revolutionary war era, ...or maybe it's the civil war.

In my readings of the Civil War, particularly the campaigns in Virginia and the Shenandoah area, I've seen a lot of unusual (to me) names. Seems like the word "courthouse" was included often, which apparently had a different connotation back in those days, than now.

[Lew Hartswick]

Another PA location, "Potliker Flats", along 322 between Lewistown
and State College.
...lew...

[Boot]

Pennsylvania favorites

How about the town of "Intercourse"
and we have "Blue Balls" and "Bird in Hand"on the road to "Paradise".

[gvasale]

Don't know how these will measure up, but there is Over the Top Rd. in Holland Ma, and a longstanding joke Podunk Pike in East Brookfield.

[Deus Machina]

There's a place around me where a house got half-destroyed by a tree that fell during a hurricane. They lived in a trailer for more than a year while it got fixed. They have since renamed their private road 'Falling Oaks Dr.'

I have seen the point where Street Avenue intersects with Avenue Street.

I thought I grew up in a small town, but I once sent a few parts I sold on eBay to some little town or another (in Arkansas, I think) with the address on 'The Road.'

[.RC.]

[GKman]

I was pleased when the powers that be, officially naming all roads for 911 access didn't bow to political correctness or snobbery - Possum Holler Road, Agency Missouri.

[The Artful Bodger]

I cant think of anything too amusing around here although there is a road a bit south of here known as the Pig Root, maybe it was originally Pig Route.

[batt-man]

Whenever i visit my brother in Wiltshire, UK i drive through "chilton foliat", go pass "crooked soley", avoid the road marked to "axford", pass "witcha" and "whittonditch works", ignore the signs to "marridge hill" and "baydon manor" before arriving in the village of "aldbourne"

Just where the hell do some of these names come from?

Cheers
Batt...

PS - that's all in about a 5 or 6 mile stretch of road !!!

[EVguru]

I pass Cold Christmas occasionally and there are all the Slaughters.

A couple of good ones are the Welsh village of Pant-Y-Gyrdll and the Australian town of Djabringabeeralong.

[DickDastardly40]

For unusual place names in the UK check out this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaning-Liff-Douglas-Adams/dp/0330281216/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316677955&sr=8-1

It gives all the names a meaning in the manner of a dictionary and makes a very good smallest room time passer.

[joeby]

Swampoodle Road, PA

This being the main attraction,
http://www.arichnersautoparts.com/ which is not far at all from Gum Stump.

Also not far away is Pacific and a few miles from there, Atlantic.

Kevin

[RussZHC]

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

[apparently there are quite a few "Buffalo Jump" but only one with their heads smashed in ]

[paulsv]

The town of Downers Grove, Illinois has always made me think of a bunch of drugged out hippies hanging out in the woods.