Columbia County place names

Bull's Head and Red Tavern, Dog Town, Slabtown, and Noodle Doosey are among the 1100 geographical places in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. There are also Kawanishoning, Namescesepong, and Popomentang, as well as Oskohary, Lapachpeton's Town, and Lover's Leap where a young Indian jumped to her death in protest and grief of her slain lover. In this fascinating study of how places in the county were named, Dr. Brasch specifies the type of place, location, the circumstances and people involved in the naming, spelling and pronunciation variants, etymology, date-range, degree and level of usage, as well as a brief history of the place.