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Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff
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.
The town of Ulthar is part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, appearing in such stories as "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (1926), "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920) and "The Other Gods" (1933). Peterswood Enid Blyton: Five Find-Outers: Peterswood is a city that appears in the story "Five find outers" as the main setting in the fifteen mystery stories.
Each December, the towns transforms into the fictional Bedford Falls for a weekend festival, as its said that the town inspired the setting featured in the movie "Its a Wonderful Life." Aurora NY
Shares the name of a real town Bay City in Michigan. Bay City, California Starsky & Hutch: ABC: Beacon Hills, California Teen Wolf: MTV: Beacon Hills is the fictional town in which that main character Scott McCall is turned into a werewolf it is the central hub of the television show. Bluebell, Alabama Hart of Dixie: The CW
Driving south on Highway 71 where it meets La-527, as you come into the town of Taylortown, there sits a mysterious brick tower on the left across the railroad tracks: The Famous Taylortown Tower
The name of the area predates the revolutionary war. [citation needed] The location "Ong's" appears on a 1778 map of Hessian encampments in New Jersey. According to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck, Ong's Hat was a real village. According to Beck, around the 1860s, Ong's Hat was a lively town and served as a social ...
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