Hey…Do You Live in Big Bone, Pluck City or Clipnocky? THIS WILL SURPRISE YOU!
My friend Marc Bresee sent me an email recently. He had been going through some of the papers of his cousin., Wilmer Bresee (of the department store Bresees). He found something interesting in Wilmer's papers.
He found a listing from maps dated around 1850 that contained the nicknames of all of the communities in Otsego County. What a list. I have no idea how these names found their origins, but they are interesting.
Is your town listed below (remember this is circa. 1850s)?:
West Exeter.....Hell Hollow
Edmeston.....Pete Hook
Burlington Flats.....Yankee Town
Morris.....Louisville
Oneonta.....Clipnocky
Schenevus.....Jacksonbourough
Mt. Vision.....Big Bone
Hyde Park.....Pluck City
West Edmeston.....Coontown
West Laurens.....Sheepskin Corners
West Oneonta.....Strait's Corners
Charlotte Valley (northern part).....Tight Nipping
Maple Grove.....Jockey Hollow
Milford Center.....Spoonville
Schuyler Lake.....Leroy
Pittsfield.....Puckerville
Hartwick.....Perth
Gilbertsville.....Bull Dog