Bug what?

Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 11:03 AM

Does anyone know how Bugscuffle Road got its name? Do you have any other odd names from this area with unusual origins?

Help satisfy my curiosity, please!

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Buzzard Roost road is just off Chapel Hill-Unionville road. I don't know who named it, but I could take a pretty good guess as to how it received its name.

-- Posted by Sharon22 on Thu, Sep 17, 2009, at 7:17 PM

Haunt Hollow Road, pronounced by us locals as "Haint" Hollow. No idea why, but it's always fun to hear Nashville TV weather people pronounce it incorrectly during severe weather.

-- Posted by David Melson on Fri, Sep 18, 2009, at 1:52 PM

...and Hollow should be pronounced "Holler", lol.

-- Posted by greasemonkey on Fri, Sep 18, 2009, at 2:04 PM

I lived on Bugscuffle Rd when I was a kid, and I always wondered where that name came from.

-- Posted by greasemonkey on Fri, Sep 18, 2009, at 2:05 PM

I lived in Monteagle and our property butts up to a road that is named Greasy Dan trail. It was on my license as that. I do NOT want to know Greasy Dan.

-- Posted by 4fabfelines on Sat, Sep 19, 2009, at 11:17 AM

The word "haint" is an old mountain name for haunt. I found this in a library book just recently as my son and I were going through Tennessee ghost stories.. for added useless info, the word "booger" describes ghosts, like the boogeyman. I believe the title of the book was "More Haunted Tennessee" at our library. I forget the author's name. sorry..

-- Posted by riebenchild on Wed, Sep 23, 2009, at 7:41 AM

I lived on Minkslide Road, off Fairfield Pike from 1950-52, have wondered how it came to be named that. I know what a minkslide is, and looks like, but can't relate that to this road. Maybe marnold1118 can shed some light on this situation, since he called that area home much longer than I did.

-- Posted by ilikeoldsongs on Wed, Sep 23, 2009, at 8:13 AM

ilikeoldsongs: as you know I lived on Minkslide Road many years...as did my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents. In spite of all my inquisitiveness, no one could ever tell me the source of the name. I always assumed it had something to do with Parker Creek that flows across the road and through the farm my great-grandfather purchased in 1860.

I'll share a brief little story that probably is of no interest, except to me, but I'll do it anyway. It seems that my grandfather, Finis Parker, had just gotten married married in 1900 and had built a new house just down the road on a farm he was given, or purchased, from his father Nehemiah Parker. He and his new bride, Sarah Hazlett (Richmond community), were living in a tenant house located on his parents' farm when several members of the family came down with "the fever" and the country doctor treating them was having a tough time getting them well. So he suggested that members of the family be separated. Finis apparently was the sickest, so relatives and neighbors carried him--literally on his bed--down the dirt road to his new house nearly a mile away.

For those who may not know, Minkslide Road connects Fairfield Pike and Webb Highway. Because of the scarcity of homes on that stretch of road, TVA didn't run electric lines until the very late '40s. Driving on that road recently, I didn't recognize much as being the way it was 50-60 years ago.

-- Posted by marnold1118 on Wed, Dec 30, 2009, at 10:08 AM

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