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Originally posted by St-Cyr:
And there's a town in Arizona called Picket Wire which is a deformation from a french word: Purgatoire (purgatory).
Who knows if Ontario was really a native tribe name or something else altogether?
We also have Why, Santa Clause, Punkin Center, and several other interesting town names here, along with one of my all-time favorite landmark names, Silly Mountain. The people who came to Arizona before the advent of air conditioning were truly an interesting breed.
