Crazy Names: Florida’s Top 5 Towns

ORLANDO, Fla. – When individuals consider Florida cities, they often consider Orlando, Miami or Tampa.

However, when you’ve got lived right here for greater than a pair weeks or have visited greater than as soon as, you have got probably been uncovered to some extra distinctive metropolis names, too.

Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden break down their High 5 checklist of unusual city names in Florida on their podcast Florida’s Fourth Property.

Ginger says, “Now we have some loopy names for cities in Florida, it makes us giggle generally.”

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No. 5:

Howey-in-the-Hills is available in at No. 5.

“Ever since I moved to Central Florida, I’ve been fascinated by this explicit title,” Ginger mentioned. “It’s named after William John Howey and in 1925 it was simply referred to as Howey. He appeared round and mentioned are these mountains I see within the distance?”

She says, “He added ‘in-the-hills’ to it after which began calling it ‘The Florida Alps.’”

Matt joked, “Out within the Florida Alps! It’s type of like Mount Dora. Go searching, like, ‘The place’s the mountain right here?!’”

However Matt does agree the Howey Mansion, a giant draw for the realm, is a good place to go to. Plus, Ginger likes the truth that you possibly can study extra about Mr. Howey in case you go to the house.

No. 4:

The city of Christmas is available in at No. 4.

Matt says, “There’s a place in Florida, the place it’s Christmas all yr spherical. It’s positioned proper on Freeway 50, simply east of Orlando, and lots of people assume that that is some type of shtick. It seems there may be some historical past right here. Again in 1837, Military troopers arrived on this space to construct a fort, they usually occurred to reach on December 25, so that they referred to as it Fort Christmas.”

“Santa himself will probably be sitting within the foyer of the publish workplace as a result of individuals will drive from throughout to have their letters postmarked in Christmas, FL,” Matt mentioned. “They’ve Cupid, Blitzen and St. Nicholas avenues. It doesn’t get any higher than that.”

Austin and Gadsden break down their remaining three loopy Florida city names on Florida’s Fourth Property.

The city of Mayo makes their high three. See in case your checklist matches theirs and why the title behind Mayo, Florida, doesn’t even have something to do with the favored condiment.

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