Pointer, Kentucky
Pointer is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Kentucky.[1]
History
A post office called Pointer was established in 1891, and remained in operation until 1985.[2] The community was named after Pointer Creek.[3] A variant name was "Hickory Nut".[1]
gollark: No, that would probably be hard to support and I don't really like them.
gollark: I think msgpack is technically superior, but potatOS doesn't actually ship code for it right now.
gollark: It supports a msgpack-based encoding instead, but none of the clients except the JS-based test one actually use that.
gollark: You can actually use the older v1 protocol (there are no v2 and v3, it's complicated) really easily with wscat or something. There's just no interesting traffic mostly.
gollark: In PotatOS? Nope, the client code is all there, the server doesn't dynamically send extra ones.
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pointer
- "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 104.
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