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Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 11:03 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
Does anyone know how Bugscuffle Road got its name? Do you have any other odd names from this area with unusual origins?
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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.
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.
...and Hollow should be pronounced "Holler", lol.
I lived on Bugscuffle Rd when I was a kid, and I always wondered where that name came from.
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.
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..
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.