Massachusetts town and city names may be some of the most odd as well as unique of any state. There’s definitely a good chance that as soon as Bay State residents hear and/or read the name of any, or at least most of those towns or cities, we already know that’s a town/city in Massachusetts, even if we don’t necessarily know where it is. As it turns out, if you were to mention any town that ends in ‘ham’, there’s a really good chance that town actually does exist somewhere in Massachusetts since there is a ridiculously absurd amount of towns here that end as such.
Some states have lots of towns that end in ‘ville’, or ‘City’, or ‘town’. But in Massachusetts, we have a bunch of towns that end in ‘ham’. Can you name them or locate them on a map? Have you been to any of these? Maybe you live there.
As someone that’s lived in the Bay State for about a year and a half, I had no idea that towns that end in ‘ham’ here were even such a thing here. But every state has its inner quirks. Apparently, in Massachusetts, ending them in ‘ham’ is a thing. In fact, as a joke, on a recent list of fake towns in Massachusetts that was released, several of them ended that same way. One was even named ‘Hamham’. If another one should ever be added to the list, that just might end up becoming the name of such town…