“Discover America’s Most Bizarre Town Names: What Secrets Do They Hide?”
A blogger named A Possum Grape In The Big Peach shared this memory with readers about growing up in the small town: “It was, I kid you not, illegal to dance in the town closest to me until roughly 2006. My high school had to have prom about 20 miles away from home because of the dancing rule. So, when you think of my hometown, you can seriously compare it to a Kevin Bacon movie and be accurate.”
Loveladies, New Jersey
The Loveladies area of Long Beach Township, in New Jersey’s Ocean County, has one of the most pleasant names on this list. How did it get its unusual name? Pretty easily, it turns out. A United States Life-Saving Service station, built to save the lives of shipwrecked people, was established there in 1871.
Nearby this station was an island owned by a man named Thomas Lovelady. The area was called Lovelady for many years but eventually morphed into the present Loveladies. It’s a very scenic part of the state, with four “lovely” public beaches.
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Can you imagine telling people that you live in a place called Toad Suck? Residents of the tiny (less than a square mile!) town in Perry County, Arkansas, get that privilege. According to a local website, Toad Suck got its name from the steamboat days.
When the river ran low, steamboat “captains and their crew tied up to wait where the Toad Suck Lock and Dam now spans the river. While they waited, they refreshed themselves at the local tavern there, to the dismay of the folks living nearby, who said: ‘They suck on the bottle ’til they swell up like toads.'” Today, the town hosts an annual fair called Toad Suck Daze.
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