This happens to me every time we get to wander in our little RV. I spend time looking at the paper map when Dave is at the wheel. He listens to the GPS......I ignore "her" and examine the names of the towns and cities on and just off our route. Some of them really make me curious.....I wonder about who founded this place and why they selected the name? Imagination takes over as the miles fly by.
Some seem obvious, Southern Pines, Swansboro, Hickory Grove, Peachland and Lake City. But how would you like to have an address in Black Gnat, Miser Station, Boiling Springs or Pumpkintown? I haven't been to any of these places, and they are on light grey roads on my map so we probably won't venture out to any of them. Maybe they are very nice.
Towns that seem to be named after people are probably because that family posted their claim first and the town grew up around them. Leeville, Taylor, Maryville, Waynesville, Wilson, New Ellenton and Earles. Some towns sound like nice places to be......Love Valley, Fairfield, Cove Creek, Darlington or Sunrise.
Looking at any state map and you see thousands of towns and cities......inch by inch....across the map....across the country. People came, people stayed, towns were born and many died when progress or the highway passed them by. Always makes me wonder.......
A dot on a grey road......Trio, South Carolina. Three brothers?
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