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Originally Posted by Iowa Dave
If you had a summer home there and somebody wanted to visit you, they would say
“What is your Gettysburg address?” Too much?
Dave
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You are pushing it!
I live in Oswego, NY, a strange enough name that I didn't expect there were any others. Then along came the internet which pointed out Lake Oswego, OR, and Oswego, IL, both cities larger than ours.
In my travels I've found one in Kansas and another in Kentucky. The name derives from the Iroquoian Indian word osh-we-geh, meaning “pouring-out place” (i.e., a river mouth). I don't know much about Lake Oswego, but the others were established by expatriates from upstate NY.