These 14 Towns In Massachusetts Have The Strangest Names You'll Ever See
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So you’re driving down the highway. You glance at the upcoming exit sign and nearly swerve off the road: is that town name real? Welcome to Massachusetts. Here is collection of some of the zanier town names in this wonderful state.
Sandwich Police. Sandwich Pizza. Sandwich Morgue. Sandwich Laundromat. You get the idea. It's pretty fertile joke territory.
It must be weird to be a real estate salesperson in No Man's Land. Humor aside, No Man's Land (also appearing as Nomans Land) is an uninhabited island and wildlife refuge off the coast of Cape Cod. So I guess the name makes sense.
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Bloody Brook gets its odd name from the 1675 Battle of Bloody Brook between Pocumtuck natives and settlers. The conflict occurred in South Deerfield and the memorial remains there to this day.
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Is it a stable or is it a barn? We may never know. Barnstable is pronounced like "constable" and like many Massachusetts towns, this one shares its name with a sister city in England.
Definitely a town name that conjures up some amazing imagery.
Soon there will be a whole orchard.
It's easier than ever to head to Florida for the winter.
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Another town name that seems like the product of chilly Massachusetts wishful thinking.
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This one is just fun to say out loud. Reminds me of a bird call.
Race Point is a lovely beach area in Provincetown. Definitely a great place to spend a summer day. Racing not required.
Strange name, lovely town.
The founder's favorite color?
This one sounds like an old-timey insult. You old marblehead, you.
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This last one is cheating as it's not actually a town name but a beach name. Still though. Cold Storage Beach? Really?
These beautiful towns all have names that really stick in your head. While the reality is that most of these names are borrowed from English villages and cities, its still fun to poke a bit of good-humored fun at some of the wackier ones. Any other Massachusetts town names that you think should be on this list?
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