Indiana Towns Revisited

For those of you who are so into this blog that you memorize each and every entry (who??), you may recall my post on this site from 10 August 2005, "Indiana Towns". Today, I am repeating the exercise with another list of colorful names for Hoosier towns. However, where the August entry was just for fun, this time there is a purpose for doing this (which will, more than likely, manifest itself in some future blog entry).

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I love small, quaint Indiana towns. Perhaps someday I'll develop a shortlist and road trip a bunch of these towns.

Here goes...

Mongo
South Center (Which is it? Southern or central?)
Bippus
Plevna
Goblesville
Corunna
Banquo
Bennett's Switch
Deputy
Wirt
Speed
Magnet
Plum Tree
Nabb
Paragon (as in "ideal")
Solitude
Philomath
Clunette
Lodi (I have actually been here, and it brings new depth to the Creedence Clearwater Revival song)
Buckskin
Plainville

For those who are curious, here is the list from August '05:
Maxinkuckee
Zulu (because Indiana is famous for its Zulu population)
Tunker
Southwest (a town in far north-central Indiana)
Central (a town in far southern Indiana)
Center (in northern Indiana)
Advance
Oolitic (fun to pronounce)
Gnaw Bone
Story
Lake Bruce
Bruce Lake (a town about 3 miles from Lake Bruce. By the way, my map shows no body of water named either "Bruce Lake" or "Lake Bruce")Toto
Otis
Enos
Exchange
Economy
Daylight
Santa Claus
Spraytown
Ijamsville
Alamo (a place to always remember)
Roll
Friendship
Peppertown
Needmore
Acme
Petroleum
Domestic
Universal
China
Mexico
Poland.
Norway
Angola
Peru
Ceylon
Lebanon
Siberia
Nebraska
Maryland
Moscow
Manilla
Geneva
London
Versailles
Brooklyn
St. Paul
Atlanta
Dublin
Rome City
Austin
Topeka
Santa Fe
Denver
Chili
Bono (amazingly, there are two Bono, Indianas)
Mace
Nulltown
Pinola
Farmers
Farmers Retreat
Pleasant
Prince's Lake (the one with the purple water)
Raccoon
Salamonia
Phlox
Cuzco
Churubusco