Odd missouri town names

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Very enjoyable to read, thank you! Loved the "cents" of humor. Monday, April 22, Missouri. Show you what, exactly? So, show me a yellow hammer, would ya? Ah, never mind. Just show me some crazy Missouri town names, okay? This place is supposedly named after the first postmaster, blue-eyed Elbert N. Why not just call the place Butler, or Elbert? This town of is actually part of Branson, the hillbilly Vegas. Local high school athletes play for the Blue Eye Bulldogs. A Blue Eye d Bulldog.

This place is right on the Arkansas border too, but over to the east. Which explains the name of the town. Which is a pretty damn lame name for a river, if you ask me. Not a bad idea. You want to attract humans to your new town, and not gophers or armadillos or some other kind of creature.

So why name it something like Gopherville, or East Armadillo, or Donkeytown? Makes no sense. You want to name it after what you want to populate the place with, right? So, Humansville it is. Well, it seems to have worked. Humansville currently has just over 1, of them. Screamer, an unincorporated community in southeastern Alabama, has a noisy history. According to a local historian, the name may have two origins. In one version of the story, it comes from the fact that 19th century Native Americans used to loudly heckle white train travelers as they passed by what was then a reservation.

The "screaming" could have also referred to the din made by local bears, panthers, and wildcats. With a little more than residents, Unalaska is the largest city in the Aleutian Islands. Originally, Unangan residents named it Agunalaksh, a word that means "near the peninsula.

Why call a town "Why? But because of an Arizona law requiring place names have at least three letters, "Y" became the much more existential "Why. The name Smackover may have come from the French name for the local creek, Chemin Couvert, which means "covered way"—and "sumac couvert" means a covering of sumac trees, a local plant. The early residents of Rough and Ready, California, were prepared to get down and dirty for their independence.

What started out as a temporary solution has become a point of pride for locals currently fewer than in number in No Name, Colorado. Hazardville, Connecticut, began as a 19th-century industrial village that made gunpowder. Two Egg, Florida, got its name during the Great Depression. According to local lore, two young boys were so strapped for cash that they paid a local shopkeeper for sugar by giving them two eggs.

Founded in the s, the tiny town of Climax, Georgia, got its name from its location: It sits at the highest point on the railroad between Savannah and the Chattahoochee River. A cozy little burg near Hilo, Volcano is adjacent to several volcano hot spots. Near Culdesac, Idaho, sits the multiple-house assembly of Slickpoo, a slice of real estate that may barely qualify as a town but was once a bustling village.

Originally the site of a Catholic mission, it was said to have been gifted to the missionaries by landowner Josiah Slickpoo. Originally called Almon after land developer Almon Cage when it was founded in , Sandwich got its name when a train stop liaison named it after his hometown of Sandwich, New Hampshire.

It still capitalizes on the connotation, though: The town holds a Sandwich Festival annually. It feels like Christmas every day in Santa Claus, Indiana. As the story goes, the town was first named Santa Fe.

In , when the town wanted to secure a post office, postal officials told it to pick another name since Santa Fe was already taken. Someone thought Santa Claus was an acceptable alternative, and the post office agreed. To their dismay, children began mailing letters to Santa Claus, Indiana, with regularity. A former coal mining town in the southeast of the state, What Cheer was christened Petersburg by Peter Britton, who settled here in the s. But enterprising shop owner Joseph Andrews, who created the town post office, suggested calling it What Cheer, possibly after an old English greeting.

Britton protested, but the name stuck.