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Shares the name of a real town Bay City in Michigan. Bay City, California Starsky & Hutch: ABC: Beacon Hills, California Teen Wolf: MTV: Beacon Hills is the fictional town in which that main character Scott McCall is turned into a werewolf it is the central hub of the television show. Bluebell, Alabama Hart of Dixie: The CW
Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
The town of Ulthar is part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, appearing in such stories as "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (1926), "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920) and "The Other Gods" (1933). Peterswood Enid Blyton: Five Find-Outers: Peterswood is a city that appears in the story "Five find outers" as the main setting in the fifteen mystery stories.
By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...
In early history, the area of Oradell was home to Lenape settlements, a refuge for French Huguenot settlers escaping religious persecution and an encampment site during the Revolutionary War.
It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and storyteller Jackson Sloth and his family, said to have fallen in a sinkhole that no-one can find twice. The town is rich with folktales and paranormal activity, especially around holidays.
The name of the area predates the revolutionary war. [citation needed] The location "Ong's" appears on a 1778 map of Hessian encampments in New Jersey. According to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck, Ong's Hat was a real village. According to Beck, around the 1860s, Ong's Hat was a lively town and served as a social ...