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[Jean-Joseph Cote]

James wrote:
> Nova and I once (in 1991) spent a good hour or so driving around
> southwestern Ohio looking for a town called Knockemstiff. It's in
> the Rand-McNally road atlas, in Ross County, about six or seven
> miles southwest of Chillicothe. It's on other maps, too; Mapquest
> shows it, and there are other references to it on the web now.
> However, no one we encountered in the area had ever heard of it,
> and it has no listing in the U.S. Census. Is this a mountweazel of
> long standing, or just a real (albeit obscure) place with a funny name?

http://www.forgottenoh.com/GhostTowns/knockemstiff.html

Jean-Joseph