Was it actually named because of the history, or just people being interesting people and calling it names/tales?
Possum Kingdom Lake, sounds amazing.
As I understand it, it was named because of a brothel at that location. Perhaps it was there only briefly, but the name stuck.
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.
Well, if we’re including neighborhoods, I’ll add Cookie Hill, a neigborhood in American Canyon, California.
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.
Which of course was inspired by that location.
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).
Taken out of context, the line ‘to heck and back’ is hilarious.
You could be there forever!
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
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.