From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow : Unusual Kentucky Place Names

by RENNICK ROBERT M.

• ISBN13: 9780813109312
• ISBN10: 0813109310
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-24
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

" Of course you'll find Paradise in Kentucky, but it's only one of the many unusual place names in the Commonwealth. Meeting these names for the first time, visitors and residents alike assume that some clever or funny stories lie behind them. So they ask, how did Elkhorn Creek get its name? Were the roads to Red River really Hell each way? Did bugs really tussle in Monroe County? Why was everyone whooping for Larry? To be hospitable and helpful, Kentuckians have come up with convincing -- if not always truthful -- answers to these and other questions about how places got their names. Some of these stories were clearly not intended to be believed, though a few of them have been anyway. From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow presents some of the classic accounts of Kentucky's oddest place names. Complete with map, index, and humorous drawings by Linda Boileau, this handy guide is a delight.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(4)
UNUSUAL KENTUCKY PLACE NAMES	5	(58)
Kentucky	5	(1)
Some Stream Names	6	(1)
Elkhorn Creek	7	(1)
Defeated Creek	8	(1)
Tearcoat and Illwill	8	(2)
Dreaming Creek and Drowning Creek	10	(1)
Lulbegrud	11	(1)
Lonesome Creek	12	(1)
Mare Creek	12	(1)
Bedstead Branch	13	(1)
Paradise	14	(1)
Morning View	14	(2)
Fancy Farm	16	(1)
Nonesuch	16	(1)
Mousie	17	(1)
Thealka	18	(1)
Feliciana	18	(1)
Rebel's Rock	19	(1)
Sally's Rock	20	(1)
Fogertown	21	(1)
Horse Cave	22	(1)
Red Hot	23	(1)
Kettle Island and Kettle	24	(1)
Deadman's Hill and Deadman's Grave	25	(1)
Torchlight	26	(1)
Wild Kitchen	27	(1)
Buzzard Roost and Jugernot	28	(1)
Pine Knot	29	(1)
Pinchem	30	(1)
Shake Rag	31	(1)
Needmore	32	(1)
Lickskillet	33	(1)
Rabbit Hash	34	(1)
Bugtussle	34	(1)
Black Gnat	35	(1)
Helechawa	36	(1)
Other Hells	37	(1)
Rogue's Harbor	38	(1)
Monkey's Eyebrow	39	(1)
Tidalwave and Troublesome	40	(1)
Blue Hole	41	(1)
Tywhapity	42	(1)
Whoopflarea	43	(1)
No Creek	43	(1)
No Business	44	(1)
Nobob and Nolynn	45	(1)
Bears	46	(1)
Egypt	47	(1)
Decoy	47	(1)
Eight Eight, Seventy Six, Twenty Six, Zero	48	(1)
Letters from the Postmasters	49	(2)
Whynot, Ono, Allagree	51	(1)
Pewee Valley and Pig	52	(1)
Albany	53	(1)
Sweet Owen	54	(1)
Products on the Store Shelves	54	(2)
Crum	56	(1)
Sedalia	56	(1)
Stop, Wait, and Uno	57	(1)
Zachariah	58	(1)
Yield	58	(1)
Buncombe	59	(1)
Fallen Rock	60	(3)
SOURCES	63	(12)
FURTHER READING	75	(2)
INDEX	77