Box Ankle, Georgia

Box Ankle is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1] A variant name is "Boxankle".[1]

History

According to tradition, Box Ankle was named from an incident when a man fractured his ankle as he fell onto a wooden box in a brawl at a cockfight.[2]

gollark: With my minor tweak where after round 93 of 100 they start engaging in evilness.
gollark: They're tit-for-tat clones.
gollark: This sounds hard, ħm.
gollark: At the *end*, it makes it lose by a lot.
gollark: Hmm, if I put mine at the *start* of the strategies list then deploying the clones makes it win by a lot.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Box Ankle
  2. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.

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