Welcome To [Insert Your Town Here] Signs Photo Gallery by Christopher Wheeler at pbase.com

Welcome To [Insert Your Town Here] Signs

Here's an assortment of alphabetically-arranged signs welcoming visitors to various localities and/or demarcating boundaries. From Ware, Massachusetts ("Nationally known as the town that can't be licked") to Amesville, Ohio (home "of the famed coonskin library"), through Gnaw Bone, Indiana, Tahlequah!, Oklahoma ("Best small town in Oklahoma and 53rd best small town in America"), and Bland, Missouri (named after "Congressman Richard P. 'Silver Dick' Bland"), these signs tell us as much or more about the inhabitants as they do their localities. I took most of these pictures during cross-country car trips (26,000 miles in total and avoiding all interstate highways) in 1999 and again in 2002.

Wish I'd kept better notes as I drove. Where, for example, is Gold Hill ("a quiet city" where "all loud and unnecessary noises are prohibited")? Or Owensville, where "speed is checked by laser"? I simply can't remember! If you have any information, please let me know.

Academia ,Ohio	Alamogordo, New Mexico	Ames, New York	Amesville, Ohio	Andover, New York
Angel Fire, New Mexico	Ansonia, Ohio	Artesia, New Mexico	Asharoken, NY	Augusta, Ohio
Baraboo, Wisconsin	Barkeyville, Pennsylvania	Benoit, Mississippi	Beulah, Mississippi	Bible Grove, Illinois
Biggs, California (Courtesy Pete Carr, City Administrator)	Big Sandy, Texas	Billmore, Missouri	Binger, Oklahoma	Bland, Missouri
Blanding, Utah	Boulder Junction, Wisconsin	Bridgport, Vermont	Brushy Prarie, Indiana	Bucklin, Kansas
Burkley, Kentucky	Butts Corners	Calm, Missouri	Cameron Mills, New York	Canisteo, New York
Carrizozo, New Mexico	Catharine, New York	Charlemont, Massachusetts	Chuckery, Ohio	Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Coal Hill, Pennsylvania	Collinsville, Alabama	Copeland, Kansas	Crabmeadow, NY	Cranberry, Pennsylvania
Crow, Texas	Cuddebackville, New York	Cullison, Kansas	Cunningham, Kansas	Cyclone, Pennsylvania
Dayton, Wyoming	Del City, Oklahoma	Dix ,New York	Dodge City, Kansas	Dugger, Indiana
Eagle Bay, New York	Eagle Nest, New Mexico	Eagle River, Wisconsin	Eldred, Pennsylvania	Ellis, Indiana
Embarrass, Wisconsin	Emporia, Indiana	Ensign, Kansas	Eureka, Kansas	Ewen, Michigan
Fairland, Indiana	Fair Play, Missouri	Fancy Farm, Kentucky	Farson, Wyoming	Fayetteville, Ohio
Felt, Oklahoma	Fletcher, Ohio	Ford, Kansas	Foster, Pennsylvania	Fountain City, Indiana
Gas, Kansas	Gerald, Missouri	German Flatts, New York	Gnaw Bone, Indiana	Gold Hill, Oregon
Grand Saline, Texas	Greenfield, Massachusetts	Hampden, Massachusetts	Harmon, Ohio	Haviland, Kansas
Hillsboro, Ohio	Hinsdale, New Hampshire	Hoard, Texas	Hobo Station, Mississippi	Hord, Illinois
Howe, Idaho	Hubbardsville, New York	Hugoton, Kansas	Humansville, Missouri	Huntington, Massachusetts
Hurley, Wisconsin	Inlet, New York	Irwin, Ohio	Jelloway, Ohio	Jicarilla Apache
Justus, Ohio	Kent ,Connecticut	Keownville, Mississippi	Key, Texas	Keyes, Oklahoma
Killbuck, Ohio	Klamath, California	Kossuth, New York	Land O Lakes, Wisconsin	Lava, New York
Leeper, Pennsylvania	Leominster, Massachusetts	Leslie, Missouri	Leverett ,Massachusetts	Lima, New York
Lime Rock, New York	Linton, Indiana	Losantville, Indiana	Louisville, Illinois	Luck, Wisconsin
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania	Lynn, Indiana	Macks Creek, Missouri	Madison County, New York	Madison Junction, Wyoming
Marion, North Carolina	Marks, Mississippi	Matamoras, Pennsylvania	McClure, Ohio	Mesopotamia, Ohio
Mineral Wells, Texas	Modoc, Indiana	Montague, Massachusetts	Montezuma, Kansas	Montour, New York
Moreland, Indiana	Moscow, Kansas	Mt. Vernon, Ohio	Mutual, Ohio	Mystic, Connecticut
Napolean, Ohio	Nectarine, Pennsylvania	Neosho, Wisconsin	New Albany, Pennsylvania	Nitrate City, ,Alabama
Northampton, Massachusetts	Norwood Young America, Minnesota	Oblong, Illiniois	Odessa, New York	Old Lyme, Connecticut
Otto, Pennsylvania	Owensville, Ohio	Panhandle, Texas	Paradise, PA	Paris, New York
Parsons, West Virginia	Passport, Illinois	Paydown, Missouri	Phalanx Mills, Ohio	Philip, South Dakota
Phlox, Wisconsin	Pigeon, Pennsylvania	Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts	Piqua, Ohio	Plain City, Ohio
Plainville, Connecticut	Plato, Indiana	Pocono, PA	Pomfret, Connecticut	Portville, New York
Prospect, Ohio	Provincetown, Massachusetts	Rathbone, New York	Ravenna, Ohio	Rew, Pennsylvania
Richwood, Ohio	Rixford, Pennsylvania	Rolla, Kansas	Rosebud, Missouri	Roses, Pennsylvania
Roswell, New Mexico	Rural, Pennsylvania	Russell City, Pennsylvania	Russia, Ohio	Sandy, Pennsylvania
Saratoga, Indiana	Seward, New York	Shady Cove, Oregon	Shelby, Mississippi	South Hadley, Massachusetts
Sparta, Ohio	St. Paris, Ohio	Strong City, Oklahoma	Sublette, Kansas	Sulpher Springs, Indiana
Switz City, Indiana	Tahlequah, Oklahoma	Tariffville, Connecticut	Three Rivers, Massachusetts	Trenton, New York
Triangle, New York	Trout Creek, Michigan	Truxno, Louisiana	Tuxedo, NY	Uncertain, Texas
Venus, Pennsylvania	Vian, Oklahoma	Vowinckel, Pennsylvania	Waldo, Ohio	Ware, Massachusetts
Watkins Glen, New York	Wautoma, Wisconsin	Wawarsing, New York	Wellsville, New York	West Hartford, Connecticut
West Milton, Ohio	Wetmore, Pennsylvania	Wheeler, Alabama	Wheeler, Mississippi	Wild Rose, Wisconsin
Willits, California	Wilmot, Ohio	Winesburg, Ohio	Winslow, Pennsylvania	Wooster, Ohio
Worth, Pennsylvania	Wurtsboro, New York	Wyben, Massachusetts	Yellville, Arkansas (?)

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Lorie		17-Sep-2009 04:23
Ansonia looks very much like Ansonia, Ohio in Darke County, OH.

Eldar Kadymov		24-Oct-2005 01:38
Hysterically cool, are they really so mad ?! Great job in capturing this !

Dave Beedon		24-Oct-2005 01:20
Nice gallery! You have been traveling.

Guest		24-Oct-2005 01:18
Very very cool site! I loved reading these signs! NICE WORK!

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