When the name tells a story

MightyMoe, post: 401388, member: 700 wrote: Working on record water rights for a ranch I'm surveying; one of the adjudicated rights is tied to the Hard Labor Ditch........

In 1912 or so I can just imagine what it was like digging it

Any relation to Manuel?

My last slope stake job was located on Damnation Ridge, right below Damnation Peak.
I remember it being very steep and brushy for most of the way. Small pocket of timber at the very end of the road.

You know it's bad when you are cussing..."why the heck do they want to build a road here?...do they know it's just solid brush?!...all this for a few trees?!

Charles L. Dowdell, post: 401389, member: 82 wrote: Any relation to Manuel?

I think it may have been dug with lots of help from Manuel

The name suggest to me that it was dug by a prison work gang.

There is a road in Mashpee with the name "Stub Toe Road." I've often wondered about the story behind that one.

I have worked on a road named "Snake Den Road" and indeed the name says it all

One of the most common names (plus minor variations) for a creek is Mud Creek.

Holy Cow, post: 401516, member: 50 wrote: One of the most common names (plus minor variations) for a creek is Mud Creek.

The last property I owned had a creek running through it called "Dry Creek". I never saw it without water running through it.

"Shades of Death Road"

http://weirdnj.com/stories/shades-of-death-road/

Travel this at least a few times each month.

Paul in PA

"Cold Bottom Road" exists in MD. Perhaps built during a particularly cold winter.....

Tobacco Road and Poverty Lane are good ones hereabouts.

I have been trying for years to get someone to let me plat "Lois Lane" to no avail. Although one client did let me name his subdivision "Another Subdivision".

Holy Cow, post: 401516, member: 50 wrote: One of the most common names (plus minor variations) for a creek is Mud Creek.

We have a creek near here called "Dried Indian Creek". No clue how it got that name.
Near where I grew up there is "Negro Head Branch". I'll be willing to bet it wasn't called that until late in the 1970's.
Andy

KScott, post: 401572, member: 1455 wrote: I have been trying for years to get someone to let me plat "Lois Lane" to no avail. Although one client did let me name his subdivision "Another Subdivision".

I always thought it would be cool to name a street "Easy Street", and other similar names. I've seen a Noe Road. I think "No Way" would be cooler.

KScott, post: 401572, member: 1455 wrote: I have been trying for years to get someone to let me plat "Lois Lane" to no avail. Although one client did let me name his subdivision "Another Subdivision".

Back in the '70s, I drafted a plat that did, indeed have a cul-de-sac named Lois Lane. It ran off of Kent Way ...

Tom Adams, post: 401581, member: 7285 wrote: I always thought it would be cool to name a street "Easy Street", and other similar names. I've seen a Noe Road. I think "No Way" would be cooler.

I lived on Easy Street for a year while at Paul Smiths College. When Paul Smith had his hotel, the local guides would take the paying guests out for fishing and hunting. The stretch of highway where the guides lived came to be known as Easy Street.

There is a Lois Lane in Edina MN. I was told that it was named after the surveying company owner's wife, Lois. I worked for that company 1970-1974. That plat, The Heights 5th Addition, was made in the 1960s

Lick Creek
Little Hope Baptist Church

Names in Nova Scotia...

Ecum Secum
Tatamagouchie
Wolfville
Meat Cove
Shag Harbour