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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: bizarre place names
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:51:32 EDT
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    > From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar)
    > Newsgroups: net.bizarre
    > Subject: Re: bizarre place names
    > Message-ID: <3468@dartvax.UUCP>
    > 
    > There is also the sign somewhere around Baltimore MD for:
    > 
    >		North East
    >		Rising Sun
    >
    > Two distinct towns, I believe...

``Rising Sun'' is indeed a town in Maryland. It is, if newspaper
accounts are to be believed, a hotbed of Klu Klux Klan activity.

I don't know of any town in Maryland called ``North East'', but
``Rising Sun'' is north-east of Baltimore, which may explain the sign.

Also near Baltimore, in the Golden Ring area (how's that for strange)
there's ``Yellow Brick Road''. About ten miles east-northeast of
Baltimore is ``Aero Acres'', a residential area where all the streets
have names like:  ``Right Wing'', ``Left Aileron'', ``Fuselage'',
``Altimiter Court'', etc.  It was built during WWII by the Glenn L.
Martin plant, to house their employees who were furiously building
planes for the war effort.
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