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I thought you were joking when you stated your town/city as Hell, however:
"Hell was first settled in 1838 by George Reeves and his family. George had a wife and 7 daughters – no reason to call it Hell yet… George built a mill and a general store on the banks of a river that is now known as Hell Creek...
The mill would grind the local farmers grain into flour; George also ran a whiskey still, so a lot of times the first 7-10 bushels of grain became moonshine.
In turn, horses would come home without riders, wagons without drivers….someone would say to the wife, where is your husband?
She’d shrug her shoulders, throw up her arms and exclaim, Ahh, he’s gone to Hell!”
In 1841 when the State of Michigan came by, and asked George what he wanted to name his town, he replied, “Call it Hell for all I care, everyone else does.” So the official date of becoming Hell was October 13, 1841..."
.... is that all true?
That's one theory on how it was named. The other is that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schön hell!" - translated as, "So beautifully bright!" Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.
I don't really know how it was named; just that it is 294 miles south of Paradise, Michigan.
Hell is just south of paradise. I'll keep that in mind.
The Hell Street I was put on (not the town) is actually right next to a cemetery.
There is also a village named Hell in Norway as well.
In South Africa we have a town Hotazel, on the Southern edges of the Kgalagadi desert.... Lives ip to its name too.
rooperi wrote:
In South Africa we have a town Hotazel, on the Southern edges of the Kgalagadi desert.... Lives ip to its name too.
very very funny!
This gives a whole new meaning to "a snowball's chance in hell".
There are many city name abnormalities, here are a few others:
Cleveland is misspelled. The Ohio city was named for Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the leader of the crew that surveyed the local territory. But when the town’s first newspaper, The Cleaveland Advertiser, was established in 1830, the editor found that its title was too long by one letter — so he unceremoniously dropped an A.
Bangkok’s full name is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.
Portland, Oregon, was nearly named Boston.
Founder William Overton owed money to benefactors in Boston and in Portland, Maine. A coin toss in 1845 decided which city would give its name.
Anyone know of any others?
Is there a way to drag the little location marker on the chess map to the right place.
I put myself for Hell, Michigan but the location marker has Hell Highway instead of the actual community near Pinckney (15 miles NW of Ann Arbor). Is there a way to fix this?