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Name: <  >
Class: <  >
Date: <  >


Town Names

Below are stories of how five towns got their unusual names. But some words are missing in the stories. Fill in the missing word or words inside the <  > angle brackets. When you finish, check to be sure that the stories make sense and sound right.


Pie Town, New Mexico

A gas station owner had time on his hands. He <  > baking, and so in his spare time he would prepare baked goods and sell <  >. He was <  > and his fame spread. Eventually the community was named after his most <  >.


Ink, Arkansas

Families in this town were to vote on a name for <  >. The Post Office sent around <  > on which each family was to write in their <  > for the village. The directions on <  > read, "Write in Ink" -- and so they did!


Glide, Oregon

The first postmaster of a new post office needed a name for her <  >. At first, no names came to <  >. Then she heard her small son <  > the song "The River Goes Gliding Along." This sparked an <  > , and the town of <  >, Oregon was named.


Tenino, Washington

Train and trail legends gave the town of Tenino, Washington its <  >. One <  > explains that the Indian word "tenino" means a junction in a trail. The area was named <  > because it was at the <  > of several trails. Another <  > explains that  the name came from either the numbers 10-9-0 on a railroad survey stake or from the <  > 10-9-0 on the locomotive that <  > on the line.


Nags Head, North Carolina

Sailing ships used the stars to <  >. On <  > nights these ships could easily get lost. Pirates on the coast would take advantage of the <  > navigators. They would tie a lantern to a horse's neck and walk <  >. The ship's captain would think it was the light on another ship. He would sail toward the lantern, hoping to <  >. He would learn his mistake when <  > on the reefs and was <  > by pirates!


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Pick ONE of the town names below and make up a one-paragraph explanation about how the town got its name. Make your story different from the real one.

If you prefer, make up your own unusual name for a town, or use a different real name that you know of. Then use your choice to make up a one-paragraph explanation.

Use your imagination to think of an unusual explanation.

Pie Town, New Mexico		

Nags Head, North Carolina

Glide, Oregon	

Ink, Arkansas

Tenino, Washington

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