MadQuilter

I know someone who loves to go to Chicken, Alaska. I read up on it and the reason it's called Chicken is that they supposedly didn't know how to spell Ptarmigan which is the local bird.

It makes you wonder what happened to name some of those towns. http://www.af4k.com/townname.htm

quiltin-nannie

How about Blue Ball, PA, in Lancaster County?

ILoveToQuilt

Allgood, AL
Arab, AL
Bono, AR
Cool, CA
Earp, CA
Rifle, CO
Romeo, CO


Anita

MissM

We once drove through a town called Blue Eye, AR and then there is Oconomowoc (Oh Cow No Walk), WI. I live on Chautauqua St.

DOTTYMO

Somewhere in the south of England is Piddle Lane.

gigi4419

Neat names!

ILoveToQuilt

These are all in Maine:

Bingo
Cozy Corners
Dog Town
Duck Trap
Gag Corner
Land of Nod
Maine (yes, Maine, Maine)
Mainstream
Moody
Reach
Records
Sound
Starbird Corner
Tattle Corner
Teakettle Corner
Ten Degree
The Forks


Anita

ILoveToQuilt

Maine also has lots of towns named after other countries, states and cities:

California
Columbia
Lebanon
Egypt
Peru
Ireland Corner
Jamaica Point
Scotland
Siberia
Sweden


Anita

Cornishlass

Greenbottom, Jolly's Bottom and Skinner's Bottom were all places near the village where I grew up in Cornwall, SW England.

janet

richardswife

Texas has lots of funny names, but here are just 2: Paradise TX. and Paris TX.