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The terms podunk and Podunk Hollow in American English denote or describe an insignificant, out-of-the-way, or even completely fictitious town. [1] These terms are often used in the upper case as a placeholder name , to indicate "insignificance" and "lack of importance".
Podunk is a hamlet located along Taughannock Creek in the town of Ulysses, Tompkins County, New York, United States, just south of Trumansburg. [1] References
The Podunk were a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in what is now known as Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. English colonists adopted use of a Nipmuc dialect word for the territory of this people.
Poeville, also known as Peavine until 1863, is the site of a historical mining town, established in 1864.John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain.
Location of the Schaghticoke Reservation. The Schaghticoke (/ ˈ s k æ t ɪ k oʊ k / SKAT-i-kohk or / ˈ s k æ t ɪ k ʊ k / SKAT-i-kuuk) are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands who historically consisted of Mahican, Potatuck, Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and their descendants, peoples indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
The Mohegan, Pequot, Pocumtuc, Podunk, Tunxis, and Narragansett were based in southern New England. The Abenaki were located in northern New England: present-day Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont in what became the United States and eastern Quebec in what became Canada. They traded with French colonists who settled along the Atlantic coast and ...
During his youth, the vaudeville entertainer George M. Cohan spent his summers with his relatives in Podunk. [2] He loved East Brookfield, and made the term "Podunk" famous, describing it in his comedy acts. Other entertainers started mentioning Podunk, [3] and the word entered the language, standing for any archetypal "backwater" town. [4]
In southern part of the township north of Mount Pleasant, a settlement on the north side of Long Lake (now Lake Fenton), Morgan Baldwin and George Judson settled the location around Baldwin Road soon called Podunk. [10] A post office opened in the township on May 1, 1848 and was moved to Mt. Pleasant as Long Lake Post Office on March 6, 1851.