A fun article about Southern town names from a magazine with a great title, Garden and Gun. What could be more southern than those two things? Here are some of their favorites,
Upper Pig and Lower Pig, NC
Loving and Happy Land OK
Between, Georgia, because it’s half way between Athens and Atlanta
And these gems of the south:
Slicklizzard, AL
Wooly Booger, WV
Lick Skillet, TN
Needmore, FL
Hot Coffee, MS
Toast, NC
Humptulips, WV
The Holy City, OK
Hog Jaw, AR
Santa Claus, GA (There’s also a Christmas, FL)
Scissors, TX
Frostproof, FL
Big Bone Lick, KY
Hell Hole Swamp, SC
Whynot, MS
What’s your favorite southern town name? Or northern town? Hell, Michigan comes to mind. It often freezes over.
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Mule Hell, Wythe county.
Cuckoo Va
Bumpass
That sounds like a sitcom name of a hillbilly town.
Frog Level, Tazewell County comes to mind.
Thanks for sharing. Roanoke used to be called “Big Lick”.