Radical, North Carolina
Radical is an unincorporated area in Wilkes County, North Carolina.[1]
History
A post office called Radical was established in 1902, and remained in operation until 1948.[2] The origin of the name "Radical" is obscure.[3]
gollark: Are the ToSes actually binding to anyone?
gollark: Which is ironic given their general contempt for privacy.
gollark: Oddly, Australia actually stopped them (or ordered them to delete Australians' faces, don't know if they actually *did*).
gollark: They're in the weird position of using technically-public-ish information in ominous privacy-violating ways.
gollark: The only people they can actually go around selling that *to* is governments, though.
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Radical, North Carolina
- "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. pp. 141–143.
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