7.10- Olympic Peninsula
"Really? REALLY?!!"
Steven Wilbur as we passed this befuddlingly named town.
The likely explanation is not much more comforting from "Phillips, James W. (1971). Washington State Place Names."
The name Humptulips may have come from a local Native American language, meaning 'hard to pole', referring to the difficulty local Native Americans had poling their canoes along the Humptulips River.
posted by Brady at 6:00 AM
1 Comments:
My guess is that some Pennsylvanian settlers missed the fun names of their home towns, so they carried the tradition with them. Never underestimate the Amish when it comes to social deviance.
Washam
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