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[Jonathan Lighter]

Am not sure if these lists have ever been reprinted:

1898 Bismarck [N.D.] Daily Tribune (Sept. 23) 4: Among the odd names in
Jefferson county, Ind., are Rat Row, Possum Trot, Doe Run, Goat Hollow, Hog
Trough, Goat Lick, Mollie's Run, Carpet Allen, Gentry's Bluff, Wash Board,
Indian Sofa, Rabbit Hash, Ten Cent Pollywog, Sausage Row and Pig's Eye.


1899 Daily Picayune (N.O.) (Jan. 12) 4: Kentcky has towns named Tywhoppity,
Ingierubber, Possum Trot, Frog Level, Dog Walk, Bully Boy, Slaughter House,
Broken Bridge, Misery Mount, Maiden Blush, Tipsey Creek, Barlow Flats,
Rabbit Hash, Riddlemerock, Redberryrock, Ransom Free, Buncombe Bog,
Ubetyou, Uno, Unit, Democrat, Darling, Digitout, Fossil Fork, Ratsnest,
Eighty Eight, Sunset, Salt Creek, Igomar, Limberneck, Chickory Creek,
Hickorynut, Holy Haunt,  Tinkleyturn, Tadpole Bank, Lovelyville, Batchtown,
Chestnut Grove, Whangdoodle, Whereaway, Crickmorecrack, Caesar's Coast,
Liberty, Love, Mud, Money, Gold Guckle, Silver Dust, Beefburg, Buzzard's
Roost, and Tippletub. there is no chance for poetry in the Blue Grass State.

1905 Panama Star and Herald (Panama City, Panama) (Apr. 8, 1905) 3:
Tennessee boasts of town with the following names: Barefoot, Botts, Leap
Year, Chimney Top, Chuckaluck, Half Pone, Hanging Limb, Ipe, Marrowbone,
Mouse Tail, Opossum, Parch Corn, Peanut, Rip Shin, Sweet Lips, Tom Brown,
U. Bet, Yum Yum, Buzzard Roost, Fits, Mashmead, Peeled Chestnut, Shoo Fly,
Skull Bone, Snail Lope, Tiger Tail and Wahoo. Missouri has the following
towns with outlandish names: Lick Skillet, Arnica, Possum Trot, Biblegrove,
Black Jack, Braggadocio, Bucyrus, Belgique, Corcyra, Cyclone, Doe Run,
Dogwood, Grubville, Koshkonong, Lone Star, Owl Creek, Pure Air, Pro Tem,
Prohibition, Prairie Lick, Rocky Comfort, Roubidoux, Schlicht, Seventy Six,
Solo, Splitlog, Tralaloo, Turnback, Twelve Mile, and Low Wossie.

JL
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