Was it actually named because of the history, or just people being interesting people and calling it names/tales?
Possum Kingdom Lake, sounds amazing.
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As I understand it, it was named because of a brothel at that location. Perhaps it was there only briefly, but the name stuck.
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rich history lol
Coffees are usually named after the regions, though. Mining was the main activity in Minas Gerais before it ever became a coffee region.
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Well, if we’re including neighborhoods, I’ll add Cookie Hill, a neigborhood in American Canyon, California.
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I live near Bat Cave, but it may be another year before I can go iNatting there because Helene wiped out the road through Chimney Rock.
Dull, Perth and Kinross, and Bland, New South Wales.
I’ve been there and heard o sotaque mineiro. I later met someone from there at a Sukkot campmeeting, but didn’t recognize his accent as Brazilian until he pronounced להנדיל (to distinguish) with /d͡ʒi/ instead of the usual /di/. His wife’s accent, though, I recognized as Brazilian; she’s from somewhere else.
Being a child of the 90s, all I can think of is the classic Toadies song.
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Which of course was inspired by that location.
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A long time ago, my husband and I went to Heck and back, but somehow we missed the nearby village of Beeswing (even though we were researching beekeeping history at the time).
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Taken out of context, the line ‘to heck and back’ is hilarious.
You could be there forever!
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There’s a county and town in Virginia I often drive by called Goochland. Maybe one day I will be mature enough not to giggle at that name
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There’s a Slicklizzard in northern Alabama. I drove by it almost daily when I was doing herp surveys in the area and have a photo of the sign somewhere in my slide collection. I always thought it would’ve been a good place to document a skink species, although it’s really named for how the local miners got slick as a lizard by crawling around in the muddy mine. Great name for a band, I’d think.
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