Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-12
FUNNY CONNECTICUT NAMES.
Personal, Local and idiomatic Odditic
OF Title in the Nutmeg State.

Personal, Local and Idiomatic Oddities
of Title in the Nutmeg State.
The Connecticut Yankee ever has
been famed as a maker of quaint, keen,
epigrammic phrases. The same fatal
gift has expressed itself in his local
names. His odd titles sometimes apply
to school districts and a defined region.
Sometimes to u headland, bay or island,
but o~ftencr to an indefinite region now
and then marked by some single char
acteristic, and frequently by no char.
acteristic at all. These funny names,
usually without rhyme or reason, fill
the state, and there is hardly a town
that has not half II dozen at least.
How common they are let the case OF
the single town of Strutford attest.
Within its borders are the following
local titles: Point No Point, Goose
Harbor, Ten Cent, Gold Diggings,
Skunk's Tavern, Wig Wan, Ham
mocks, Tins Bushes, Devils Den,
Honey Spot, Lazy Bank and Success.
Some of the names are as odd in ETY.
mology as they are in sound. For ex-
ample, there is the "Abrigador," a
region near Waterbury, which, on the
authority of a Yale professor, means in
Spanish, little fort" Did v a
| Spaniard live there? and if so, what
was there in the region to justify the
title he gave? is a query for the Water
bury antiquarian
Again, not far from West Rock is
Mad Mare hill. 1t sounds as if named
from a wild marc turned loose, But
its title is, in fact, derived from a
Frenchman, who Loyalty named it from
Nine. Mere, referring to the mother OF
Napoleon. A year or to ago it was an
nounced that Rag Hollow in Cheshire
was changed to the more poetic title
of Spring Valley. Its earlier name
didn't, as might be inferred, refer tc
the poverty of the region, but to an old
factory where rags were used IN pol
ishing wheels. Here are some old
puritan first names, CLEANED, for the
most part, in ancient Connccticu'
%gravcyards: Casindana, Darkis, Vo
dica, Hasideah, Pollycapus, Hope
still. Naitstill, Vienna, Arlotha
Jahleel, Archesa, Voadicea. But the
funniest string of Yankee names is
perhaps, that taken from an old insur
ance company's list at Hartford ant
published a good while ago by one o
the papers there. Here are some o
them: Biddle Boggs, Rumsey Rumsey
AMI S. Popping, Wash Hands, Derricl
A. January, Artemesas Pancake, Pin
Gus Sass, 0. w. Huckle berry, A. Drink
er, Robert A. Crowbar, Rene Rober,
Henry Toe Laer, Roger Pantaloon Roy
Reflection Pepper, Liberty Lamb, Bal
cite Bopp William Neithercoat, Ros
Delima Briendt, Dinocher Dugas, Co.
mos N. Smoke, Cabbage b. Needed.
Mississippi Jones, AXel w. Binderul
Donatus Bitter and Frank M. Good
Koontz.
Here are the names of districts /
Connecticut, most of them school di
tricts, copied in years past from SON
official report or other: Above all, Al
, paquag, Arrowanna, Ballahack, Bal
gall, Bcdlam, Bitgood, Bokum, Breal
. neck, Bricktop, Buff Cap, Cat Swan.
Chewink, Chicken Hill, Compo, Corur
Dan Den, Devils Backbone, Devil
Hopyard, Dividend, Equivalent, Goo
Lane, Gooslee, Halter Ridge, Isinglas
Jabbox, Malmanack, Meshomasic
Nayaug, Nyumphs, Nod North Brio
Nowyaug, Obtuse Occum, Pandanarui
Pamaecha, Peaceable, Paywell, Pc
vile, Pick, Pimperwaug, Pinch stree
= Podunk, Plum Trees, Pitch, Pogwau
Post, Potato Lane, Poverty, Press Ba,
: Bar, Puckshire, Purgatory, Puddil
. Hill, Puddle Town, Puffingham, Pr
J chase, Quadic, Gull Trap, Queac
" Quaimbog, Rattan, Roast Meat Iii
. Sabtown, Samp Mortar, Scotch Ca
% Shebetha, Shennecosser, Shippee, STA
Shunkamaug, Spit Head, Shoonvil.
= shankey Hollow. Squabble llollo
: SHUTDOWN, Suffrage, Tangwank, Tat
. Hill, Tebtow'n, To-day Hill, Tuck
Wallup, Wassuc, Whip Stick, Wig Hi
Y and Wood Tick.
= "A Connecticut country pastor is sa
~ to have made this announcement fro
II his pulpit; Brethren, 7 shall he
services Of prayer on Tuesday in H
Hollow, on Thursday in Satan's Kin
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