In Baltimore there is an area, not too far southeast of downtown, which is an old working-class neighborhood dating back to the 1860's called "Pigtown." It takes its name from the fact that when it was new and for quite a while thereafter, hogs used to be unloaded from railcars at one end of the neighborhood and driven through the main street to the slaughterhouse at the other end. The current residents are very proud of the name.

At the other end of the economic scale is a small enclave in NW Baltimore, not far from my office, dating to the last half of the 18th century called Dickeyville. It was restored in the 1920s and is now a collection of old and quaint houses. A friend of ours who rented a house there for a while insisted on calling it Peckerville.