Boom, Tennessee

Boom is an unincorporated community in Pickett County, Tennessee.[1]

History

A post office called Boom was established in 1904, and remained in operation until 1955.[2] The community was so named on account of a nearby log boom.[3]

gollark: How would that even work? It's not like all the routes are identical, that would be a very unreasonable race.
gollark: I did rock climbing a bit last year, and you actually *can* stop for a bit on some positions on the wall without anything *terrible* happening to you.
gollark: To pointlessly overextend your analogy, if you go down to the bottom you are also *further down*/further from the top, which is bad.
gollark: So I was off by a factor of 23.
gollark: Hmm, 230000.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boom, Tennessee
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 16.



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