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Undertoad · 07-26-2011, 03:57 PM

That link is awesome, because that right there is an astounding collection of dying American place names you never heard of.

There are Englandy names in New England, Eskimo names in Alaska, but every state has its charm.

There are always names where somebody clearly said "This is my town, so it's gonna be called Undertoadville." But there are also bizarre names like Pep (Texas), Defiance (Pennsylvania). Pompeii, Michigan "I know, let's name our town after one of the most widely known major natural disasters in history!"

Or Bivalve, Maryland, whose tiny Wikipedia entry sadly notes, "Bivalve takes its name from the oyster, upon which the town's economy once depended. Currently there is no economy to speak of."

07-26-2011, 03:57 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	That link is awesome, because that right there is an astounding collection of dying American place names you never heard of. There are Englandy names in New England, Eskimo names in Alaska, but every state has its charm. There are always names where somebody clearly said "This is my town, so it's gonna be called Undertoadville." But there are also bizarre names like Pep (Texas), Defiance (Pennsylvania). Pompeii, Michigan "I know, let's name our town after one of the most widely known major natural disasters in history!" Or Bivalve, Maryland, whose tiny Wikipedia entry sadly notes, "Bivalve takes its name from the oyster, upon which the town's economy once depended. Currently there is no economy to speak of."