A bit of a ride

[the Ferret]

It is unusual how roads get their names. Here in SW Ohio a lot of the roads led between towns and the roads took on those names, for instance Bethel-New Richmond Road runs between the town of Bethel, Ohio and the town on New Richmond, Ohio. Laurel-Lindale between the communities of Laurel and the community of Lindale neither of which exist anymore BTW.

When I went up and visited a friend in Wisconsin a lot of the roads seemed to be named after letters M...R...W...and then after running thru the alphabet they started doubling up WW..RR.. and I thought that really strange but who knows? I was going to go to another town in Wisc to see a train station but didn't know the address so I plugged First Street into the GPS figuring that would be in the heart of town, but it wasn't, first street was actually about 15 miles out of town.