Now I’ve started thinking of place names that don’t paint a pretty picture, and there are several glaring ones just within 10 miles or so in this county- two miles upriver is the site of a small sawmill and settlement in the mid 1800’s-a pretty landmark called Mormon Bluff-it was the scene of one of the bloodiest Indian massacres in the county’s wild west history.
About 8 miles away is a country lane that winds around a hill-the road sign says “Starvation Hill”-no one I’ve asked knows who-or what-starved up there, when, or why.
There is a Lovers’ Leap Road-along a cliff over the river, of course-a Ghost Lane that winds through a dark ravine with trees covered in wild grape vines on either side, a Hellsgate Road-and in the community just across the river, the only way in or out is a treacherous one-lane track winding up the steep hill by the dam, aptly named Suicide Road...
You have to wonder who came up with this stuff...
Its actually cooled down a bit. We had some rumbles and a bit of rain. Storms passed to the south.
There is a place informally known as “headrush hill” but that is because of the effect you get if you drive over it at a sufficient speed.
We have Frozen Head State Park. Seems a little ghoulish.