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Thread #140486   Message #3229257
Posted By: Lighter
26-Sep-11 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: The oddest named city of them all...
Subject: RE: BS: The oddest named city of them all...
Well, there's Possum Kingdom, Texas.

And there's Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Formerly Hot Springs, it renamed itself for the radio show in 1950 as a publicity stunt.

On the "hog-eye" thread, I mentioned several nineteenth-century U.S. communities with that name.

There is, or used to be, a "Hog Wallow" in Virginia. At least the highway sign was till up in 1974.

There's a Honey Pot Road in Connecticut as well as in Massachusetts.

And have I mentioned the Grand Tetons?