1998 A PLACE CALLED PECULIAR Stories of Unusual American Place-Names

Description: Author: Frank K Gallant Title: A Place Called Peculiar: Stories About Unusual American Place-Names Binding: paperback Size: about 7" x 9" Pagination: 278pp Published: Merrian-Webster, 1998 Condition: Very good; lower corner of front cover somewhat bumped; interior clean and binding strong A collection of explanations and histories of weird and amusing American town and other place names. Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. Feel free to contact us with any questions! [OCR is approximate, as always] Feast on towns from Breakfast Hill, New Hampshire to Dinner | Station, Nevada on a state-by-state tour of places with extraordinary names. Discover fascinating points of interest in special Stretching Your Legs sections included for over 40 towns like Hot Coffee, Mississippi and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Also pause and peruse the entertaining sidebars to learn more about interesting naming trends from Backward Spellings to Sly Sumnames. SAMPLE ENTRY Dodgingtown On State Route 302 three miles south of Newtown in the southwestern part of Connecticut before the Revalusionay War, he laverns and Raphouses here were hidaway for swindlers and thieves who were dodging the law. Another folk tale holds that Dodgingtown came by its name because of the way its residents rook advantage of a long-running boundary dispute between the towns of Danbury and Newtown. When a Danbury tax collector appeared at his door, a resident would insist that he was a Newtowner; when a Newtown tax collector knocked, hed say he was a resident of Danbury. This tax dodging continued for several years. «2018» Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. If you have any questions at all please send a message through eBay before bidding. Be sure to check our eBay Store for thousands of other listings like this one. Orders will be sent out the next business day after receipt of payment. If youre in a hurry and would like expedited shipping (Priority or Express shipping), please let us know before paying so we can adjust your invoice. Books are sent Media Rate within the US, and other small items are sent Parcel by default. If you would like combined shipping, please (1) contact us to let us know, and then (2) wait to pay until youre finished shopping (but try to keep it within a 4 day period, please). Just leave the items in your eBay Cart and then request an updated invoice after youre done. If you pay for an item, we are obliged to ship it to you, and cannot combine it with subsequent purchases. If youre waiting for a separate auction item to finish, please contact us to let us know. _gsrx_vers_1706 (GS 9.9 (1706))

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