Chicken, AK

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Read in Wikipedia about Chicken, Alaska:

History

Chicken was settled by gold miners in the late 1800s and in 1902 the local post office was established requiring a community name. Due to the prevalence of ptarmigan in the area that name was suggested as the official name for the new community, however, the spelling could not be agreed on and Chicken

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[albatrossumi]

Have you been there ? I noticed the name in a list of ghost towns, so I clicked on it. I guess there are about 17 residents now.