No replys since the originals; guess the remaining parts of the mystery
will continue doing so  for awhile. Some facts are as hard to nail down as
Jell-O.

Thanks to Bonnie, Hugh and Bob for shedding some light on the puzzle.

David


>I was going to mention the Bangal near Jack's Reef, Onondaga County, a now
>defunct hamlet with no population and an impoverished and sort of
>transient one when I was a kid in the 1950s. My cousin tells me that it
>wasn't a corruption of "Bengal" but was really part of a pair of
>hardscrabble settlements known as "Bang All" and "Beat All". I believe
>Bang-All was also the wording of the Guilderland Center hamlet, with which
>I am also well acquainted and which is, and was, Times Square at rush hour
>compared to the one in Onondaga County.
>
>>>> Bonnie Glickman <[log in to unmask]> 06/18/98 01:18pm >>>
>David Minor wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > While looking through a list of early New York State place names I
> > came across three places formerly name Bangali. They are Guilderland
> > Centre (Albany County), Taylorville (Cortland County) and Vienna
> > (Oneida County). Anyone have any idea where the name comes from and
> > why three non-contiguous counties all had towns of the same name. Is
> > there a Bangali extant today?
>
> I checked my Delorme computer disc (c/1993) and there were no Bangali's
> anywhere - However, it came up with two BANGALL's BOTH in NY!! -
> One is NE of Poughkeepsie off Rt 82, and the other is E of Jack's reef
> and NW of Syracuse on Rt 31.  Neither of these seem even close to your
> three locations... The spelling coincidence is weird, though - i and l
> could be confused in handwriting...
>
> Bonnie Glickman, Rochester NY
>
> PS Are you the "Timemaster" David Minor from WXXI?  If so, please accept
> my thanks for your great pieces on Simon's show!  B)


David Minor
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