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Boca Grande, Florida
Boca Grande, Florida: village on southern Gasparilla Island, a Gulf Coast barrier island, founded as an 1880s-1900s phosphate railroad port at 80-foot-deep Boca Grande Pass, now a tarpon fishing and resort community with the 1890 Port Boca Grande Lighthouse.
Butcher Hollow, Kentucky
Butcher Hollow (locally "Butcher Holler") is a small community in Johnson County, eastern Kentucky, near Van Lear, known as the birthplace of Loretta Lynn and childhood home of Crystal Gayle, with Lynn's cabin open for tours.
Corolla, North Carolina
Corolla, North Carolina: unincorporated northern Outer Banks resort community in Currituck County on NC 12, known for the Whalehead Club, Currituck Beach Lighthouse, wild Spanish mustangs, 4WD Carova beaches, and about 800 year-round residents swelling to 50,000 weekly in season.
Meads
Meads, Kentucky: unincorporated community in Boyd County on U.S. 60 south of Ashland, once Meads Station on the Ashland Coal and Iron Railway and later a C&O Lexington Subdivision coal shipping point.
Neatsville, Kentucky
Neatsville, Kentucky: unincorporated Adair County community on the Green River, 14 miles northeast of Columbia, at KY 206/KY 76; incorporated 1847, destroyed by an early-1900s Green River flood.
Nutbush, Tennessee
Nutbush, Tennessee: unincorporated Haywood County farming community on Highway 19, 12 miles west of Brownsville, settled early 1800s; childhood home of Tina Turner, subject of "Nutbush City Limits."
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola Beach, Florida: unincorporated resort community on Santa Rosa Island in Escambia County, governed by the Santa Rosa Island Authority, with county-owned land held under 99-year leases and a hurricane-exposed, tourist-driven economy.
Port Fourchon, Louisiana
Port Fourchon, Louisiana: deepwater energy support port at the mouth of Bayou Lafourche, governed by the Greater Lafourche Port Commission (est. 1960), servicing over 95% of Gulf deepwater production and serving as LOOP's land base.
Rosewood, Florida
Rosewood, Florida was a mostly Black Levy County town founded circa 1855 and destroyed by a white mob in the January 1923 Rosewood massacre; the 1994 state reparations law was the first of its kind.
Seaside, Florida
Seaside, Florida: unincorporated 80-acre master-planned Gulf Coast resort town on Highway 30A, Walton County; founded 1981 by Robert and Daryl Davis, master-planned by Duany and Plater-Zyberk as the founding New Urbanist town and Truman Show filming site.
Wasp (place name)
Wasp is the name of American places named after the wasp, a stinging insect whose English name descends from Old English, including Wasp, West Virginia, and Wasp, Tennessee.