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Drumright – Town of Oil Repute. [6] El Reno – The Onion Fried Burger Capital of the World [5] Enid – "E-town" or Etown. [7] Glenpool – The Town that Made Tulsa Famous [8] Inola – Hay Capital of the World [9] Krebs – Oklahoma's Little Italy; Mannford – Striped Bass Capital. [10] Muskogee – The Gee; Oklahoma City. The Big Friendly ...
Oklahoma. Dead Women Crossing. 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 ...
From Eek, Alaska, to Christmas, Florida, American towns have taken on some unusual names over the years. ... State University, but the city of 54,000 stuck kept its name. ... year-old Emmett Till ...
The actual city and state name were named after a 1947 single by Vaughn Monroe, not after a much better-known song released 41 years later! Kokpek: A village in Kazakhstan. Koksijde: A town in Belgium. Kokstad: A city in South Africa. Since "stad" means city in Dutch you can look at it like "cock city". Kommunizm: A town and jamoat in ...
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 ...
Oologah (/ uː l ə ɡ ɑː / OOH-lə-GAH) is a town in Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States.Renowned humorist Will Rogers was born on a ranch two miles east of Oologah, although he usually claimed Claremore as his birthplace "because nobody but an Indian can pronounce 'Oologah.'" [4] There has been disagreement about the proper spelling for the town name.
April 27, 1942, was anything but ordinary in Pryor, hit hard with tornadic winds, leaving the northeastern Oklahoma town looking like a war zone. A day in Oklahoma history: 82 years ago, a ...
Universal Pictures: Lazy Town is a southern town in the cartoon Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat the population of the town is 1,231. LazyTown: Nick Jr. The name of the city is the same as of the show. Lawndale, Texas: Daria: MTV: A suburb of a major city somewhere in Texas, United States. Lemon Twist, Nevada Wacky Races: CBS