Name my ACW battlefield features

Started by Last Hussar, 23 August 2015, 04:26:57 PM

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Last Hussar

Quote"...the 21st century town has slipped into obscurity, its modern claim to fame is for the fact that it is consistently placed on the wrong side of the West Virginia/Pennsylvania state border by map makers, and that it is the nation's largest producer of divorce lawyers. However in 1863 it was an important junction, and thus the clash between the Union Army of the Tygart Valley, and the Confederate Army of Western Virginia was inevitable."

Please suggest names for my ACW map – The town itself, farms, ridges, the river, etc. If you suggest a feature that doesn't exist I may well put it on. The map is 12 miles by 10, gridded to 1 foot on the table squares (76 x 60)

Feel free to be as serious or as silly as you like. Immortalise yourself, family, friends, co-workers, vilify your boss. Stealth puns are welcome.

All I ask is that on first glance it seems possible and not stupid.

(see also same question on TMP
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=394987
I open it up now to the tender mercies of FSN etc...)
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ronan

"Springfield"
There are many I think..  ;)

"cemetery ridge/hill/river" I always like this word in games set in these places.
"Old fool creek"
"wisdom", a town with cool people.

(edit for a typo)

Ithoriel

Yenowya Wood

Fullontha Hill

Dedman-Walken Prison

Brau Ridge

Crimea River - crossed, of course, by Angitoveritt Bridge

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Independence
Hope Springs
Patience

White Tree Creek
Bad Bend River
Long Rapids
White Creek
Black Water
Freshwater


Seminary (Hill/Ridge/Mount)
Long Stalk Farm
Fir Ridge
Oak Apple Farm
Burr Pine Church

Bad Barnet
Beuna Vista Ridge (lit. Good view ridge)

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Norm

Snake bite pass
Harpers Farm
Hookers Run
Black Tavern Hill

Techno

Black Oak Ridge. (Blasted Oak Ridge)
Rocky Creek.
Yasgur's (or Clancy's) Farm.
Sanctuary (or Smallville)
Bear pass.
Victoria Wood.

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Chris Pringle

Eponymous Creek.
Near to which there should be a Paddle Factory (Abandoned).
Duplicate Bridge.
Ten Mill. (Or Six, Fifteen or Twenty-Eight.)
Five Rounds Rapid.
Colmar Bluff.
Sneaky Peak.

Hussarsburg?



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Running Deer Creek (pronounced "crick")
Throwmesix
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Limpley Stoke
Curry Mallet
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