> Ok, try this one.
> The town of Neon, Ky. got it's name because when it was only a whistle-stop railroad station, they didn't have a platform. In order to get on the train, you put your knee on a stump and the conductor grabbed your hand and pulled you up into the passenger car. Knee-on = Neon. Get it?
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> Just outside the great city of Loudon, Tn, there is a road called Get Good Hollow Road. Sometime back in the past, there was a moonshine still there and you could get good moonshine in Get Good Hollow. Would I lie to you? Look it up on your map program. It's really there.
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> And then there's Fort Pierce, Fla. which began as a small settlement where a fort was planned. There is no record that the fort ever was built, but the name stuck.
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> A short drive south of there is Boca Raton, Fla. which means "Rat's mouth." As Red Skeleton used to say, "I just tell 'em. I don't explain 'em."
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> Nashville, Tennessee began as Fort Nashbourgh. The Fort was dropped and bourgh was changed to ville because they didn't want to mix French and English.
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> My favorite (and sometimes I repeat myself myself)is the town called 88 in Kentucky. It seem the first postmaster couldn't read words, but he could read numbers.
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> I heard New York was named for a steak.
> I wonder where Flagstaff, Arizona got it's name?
> Howard


There's a small town in Oregon named Drain. I'm not sure as to where the name originally came from; I just assumed that it had something to do with the amount of rainfall we get. It's gotta flow somewhere. (not pulling a Howard here)
Not really as colorful a name, but just fun to say would be the town of Dufur. I believe a local politician once said "You can do for Dufur what Dufur can do for you..." (say it aloud a couple times) (potential Howardism on this one)

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