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A sign proclaiming Scranton as "The Electric City" overlooks Courthouse Square. The city got its moniker for being the site of the nation's first electric-powered streetcars. Allentown. A Town [3] Band City USA [4] Peanut City [5] Silk City [6] The Queen City [7] [8] Truck Capital of the World [9] Bethlehem. Christmas City U.S.A. [10] Erie. The ...
This town just east of Oklahoma City gets its ominous name from a supposed haunted bridge in the area. In the early 1900s a woman named Katie Dewitt James was murdered, and her body was found near ...
A Pennsylvania town where being a raccoon is dangerous business. Cooter: A city in Missouri. "Cooter" is a slang term for vagina. Cork: The clearly "always-drunk" Irish city with a fitting name - founded as a trading port in 915 AD by the Vikings. Also check out a couple other Corks stateside! Cornville: A town in Maine.
The weirdest city names become everyday vocabulary when you have them on speed dial. This is also why I can’t blame distracted Americans for living their lives in certain towns and cities while ...
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania. Many of the ghost towns in Pennsylvania are located in Western Pennsylvania, particularly in the Appalachian and Allegheny regions of the Rust Belt. [1] During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. [2]
50. Wyoming. Riverton’s slogan, “The Rendezvous City,” may need a bit of clarification.The city was originally used as a meeting point, or rendezvous site, for Native Americans. As white men ...
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.