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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.
Broken Keel Tavern – World of Warcraft; The Broken Stool – The Cleveland Show; The Bronze – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) Broome's (Coast City) – Arrow, episode "Legacies" The Buck's Head Inn – Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy; The Bull – The Archers, BBC radio series; The Bull – Beast; Bull and Butcher – The Day of ...
This is a list of fictional settlements, including fictional towns, villages, and cities, organized by each city's medium.This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional towns, cities, settlements and villages that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein.
The legacy of taverns and inns is now only found in the pub names, e.g. Fitzroy Tavern, Silver Cross Tavern, Spaniards Inn, etc. The word also survives in songs such as "There is a Tavern in the Town". [4] The range and quality of pubs varies wildly throughout the UK as does the range of beers, wines, spirits and foods available.
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 ...
A fictional town, where the dome traps the entire town and its residents from the outside world. Cicely, Alaska: Northern Exposure: CBS: A small, isolated town in Alaska where the main character, Joel Fleischman, is sent to work off his medical school debt as the town's physician. The ensemble cast forms a tight-knit community of eccentrics.
If you've ever read the name of a town on a highway sign and started chuckling, you are not alone. Cities and towns across the nation have terrifically dirty-sounding and laugh-inducing names.
John Hughes stated that many of his films all took place within the same fictional Illinois town of Shermer. [5] The Breakfast Club and Weird Science both make explicit reference to the town by name. Silent Hill, West Virginia Silent Hill: Silent Hill DCP Inc., Davis Films, Konami Silent Hill is a town in Toluca County, West Virginia.