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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.
A town in Ramanathapuram in South India in the novels and short stories of R. K. Narayan. All but one of his fifteen novels and most of his short stories take place here. The name is a portmanteau of two Bangalore localities, Malleshwaram and Basavanagudi.
A town in Texas famous for its unusual name after painter Cohn Cohen Hoover was hired to paint two bells, with one saying "Ding", and the other bell saying "Dong". This town is also located in a very "resonant"-sounding area of its U.S. state. Dingle: A town in County Kerry, Ireland, it is the only town on the Dingle Peninsula.
Local lore attributes the town's unusual name to a meeting one December night. Townsfolk had communed to discuss the name when a gust blew open the church doors where people were gathered and the ...
From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. Is your hometown in this list? Funk, Boring and Other Oddball American Town Names
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 ...
Following are lists of fictional locations, as large as a universe and as small as a pub.. List of fictional bars and pubs; List of fictional castles; List of fictional city-states in literature
The town's name comes from the Lenni-Lenape Delaware term, "Parseponong," meaning "where the waters come together." Rockaway Hawk Watch at Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area, Rockaway Township