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recently compiled a list of the 43 strangest town names in the U.S. Making the list was Arab, Alabama. The Marshall County city has a population of some 8,234 and, despite its name, has no Middle Eastern connections got its name through a typographical error. After a village grew up around mid-19th-century settler Stephen Tuttle Thompson’s farm, Thompson asked the federal government to open a local post office.
As for the others, Howey-in-the-Hills comes from founder William John Howey in 1925. Howey called it “the Florida Alps,” thus the “hills” name. Foot of Ten takes its name from its position at the base of the Number 10 plane of the historic Allegheny Portage Railroad. And Toad Suck gets its name from a comment made by sailors on the Arkansas River who were said to drink until they swelled up “like toads.
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