I believe “Squankum” is Algonquian for “Follow the.”
A couple from New Hampshire, in Bedford: Gage Girls Road and in Amherst: Bloody Brook Road.
One of the towns I grew up in had a Guinea Rd. The town is primarily French-Canadian, so I thought it was the street where all the Italians lived. Only years later to learn that the ferry at the end of it used to cost a guinea.
Wikipedia seems unaware of it: Santa Claus Lane - Wikipedia,
but there is a real Santa Claus Lane in Carpinteria, CA
fetus, there’s also Poe, Hugo, Keats, Voltaire, Alcott, Ibsen, Browning, and so forth. They are mainly in alphabetical order.
There’s a road up near Alameda, called Fish Ranch Road. It harkens back to the old West, when the road was a major trail for the epic fish drives between the big California fish ranches and the stockyards back East. When my dad was a boy, there used to be an old fish-hand who’d sit in front of the barber shop in Palo Alto, and tell tales of riding herd on huge schools of salmon, always keeping a watchful eye out for poachers or wild barracuda, sleeping under the stars with just the quiet murmur of thousands of fish keeping you company. You’d learn what it really meant to be a man, on a fish drive all the way to Wyoming. Those days are long gone, now, and I think the West is the poorer because of it.
Sure does smell better, though.
In Brooklyn, you have the oxymoronic Old New Utrecht Avenue.
Brooklyn also boasts a Tennis Court.
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I grwe up a few blocks from East South River Street. “South River” because it was the first street south of the river, and “east” because it was on the east side of town.
In this part of WI, many rural roads are “county roads,” distinguished by letters: County Road C, County Road DM. Several years ago our local rural addressing was changed from the old “Route 1, Box 42” style to your fire number (W or N, standing nominally for “west” or “north”) followed by four digits. So our street address is now in the form “N1234 County Road A.” Phone jockeys taking/reading my address are stymied; they think the road name is “County Road” and then have no idea what the “A” is doing there, and they think “N” literally means “North,” so we get stuff addressed to “1234 N. County Road,” with the “A” completely missing. Fortunately the local post office is on the ball, and stuff usually gets to us just fine. (But why oh why don’t people take our word for it when we give our address? I think we should know what’s correct better than they do!)
Back to the main thread topic, I’ll nominate Skeleton Bridge Road.
There’s an Easy Street in a town near me. How I’d love to be on Easy Street!
Old Potato Road. I’m not sure if it was so named to differentiate it from a New Potato Road or if, indeed, it was named for an old potato.
Virginia Beach features Pleasure House Road (named for a brothel which once stood there) and Witch Duck Road (see comment #11 on this page).
In the department of ethnic insensitivity, the Florida community of Plant City has a Jap Tucker Road.
The legacy of a family of farmers in the Circleville (OH) area includes three streets, one of them being Hitler Road.
Woodbury, CT has Weekeepeemee Rd.
There’s a small road, on the edge of a village near me, which leads to a group of seven old cottages. The name of the road? “Seven Cottage Lane”.
On the other end of the literal spectrum, there’s a “New Street” which is home to many 14th/15th-century houses.
Do you live in Caldwell, Idaho? There’s an Easy Street there.
I forgot my other one: until recently, I lived on The Street. Which posed no problem for anyone around this area, because there’s loads of them (Anglo-Saxon influence), but foreigners don’t always quite understand that this is an actual address, and even people from other parts of Britain didn’t always take it seriously.
I came to this thread to post about Kitchen Dick and Woodcock. I was disappointed to read someone had already posted Kitchen Dick. I’m now doubly disappointed to find that Woodcock has also been mentioned.
I never really thought about this growing up, but Sequim itself could be considered naughty.
Any truth to the rumor that Tiemann Place, up around Harlem, was named by a paving foreman who told his crew to “come back tomorrow, same time an’ place”?
Some advertiser over WGN, Chicago, used to give an address on South South Chicago Ave. Yep - South South.
Well, Roach Ranch was probably owned by somebody named Roach. Roach isn’t unheard of as a name; there’s Hal Roach of Little Rascals fame, and then there were the Roach Guards, a street gang of Bowery Boys in antebellum NYC, who also took their name from that of a person.
Out where my brother lives, in Santa Clarita Valley, they’ve got “The Old Road”, and then I also noticed “A Street”. Very helpful names, those.
There was a little Christmas themed amusement park there, and we used to go when we were little. We’d be there in the summer, so “christmas” didn’t really register. But they had some small rides and games, including a little train that was probably about half-scale and a lot of fun for the single-digit age set.
In the Detroit suburbs we have our e & w mile roads named Maple=15 mile rd
Beaver =16 mi
Quarton =17 mi
Long Lake =18 mi
Square Lake =19
They have the same amout of letters as the mile road.