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Old 06-25-2017, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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However, I think this is my favorite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightwad,_Missouri
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Old 06-25-2017, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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However, I think this is my favorite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightwad,_Missouri
I see that a bank has, um, capitalized on the name.

I also STR hearing this story about a town in Cass County a few miles down 71 Highway - 'scuse me, I-49 - from Belton:

When the town was settled in the mid-19th century, the Post Office Department would supply names for new settlements upon request. The residents asked the Post Office to recommend a name for the town, but they asked the agency to give it a name that was "something unusual, something memorable, something peculiar."

And thus the community was named Peculiar, Mo.
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