The name-origins of some small towns near Birmingham, (Origin Unknown)
Alabama (Albamos Indians) like many place names are quaint, ignorant, cutesy, pretentious and sometimes amusing. One example...>REMLAP< A family of early settlers immodestly chose to name a town, near
Locust Forks, after themselves. Their name was
Palmer. The
Palmers apparently were a contentious clan, five families of
Palmers got mad and moved ten miles down the road and established the town of
REMLAP -which is
Palmer spelled backwards. The
REMLAP Palmers were probly right about the
Palmer Palmers -a hundred years later the descendents of the
Palmers of
Palmer changed the name of their town to the more high-faluting sounding
PALMERDALE.
