Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble is land that is rocky or of poor quality, as in the term ''hardscrabble farm''. It is often used as a euphemism for any sort of hard working or poverty, as in ''hardscrabble childhood''. A number of towns use this name: *

Hardscrabble (Harrisburg) Hardscrabble was a small settlement of mostly frame structures in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from late 18th century to 1924, so named because of its reputation as a rough place. It was bounded by the Susquehanna River to the west, Calder S ...

, Pennsylvania, a former neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania * Hardscrabble, California, now

Ione, California Ione ( ) is a city in Amador County, California. The population was 7,918 at the 2010 census, up from 7,129 in 2000. Once known as " Bed-Bug" and "Freeze Out," Ione was an important supply center on the main road to the Mother Lode and Southern ...

Hardscrabble, Colorado Hardscrabble was a settlement established by traders and trappers in the 1840s near the fork of Adobe and Hardscrabble Creeks in present-day Fremont County, Colorado. It was called ''San Buenaventura de los Tres Arrollos''—for three creeks Newlin ...

, an extinct town in Colorado * Hardscrabble, Illinois, now Streator, Illinois *

Hardscrabble, Indiana Hardscrabble was a small Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Green Township, Madison County, Indiana, Green Township, Madison County, Indiana, Madison County, Indiana. As of 1989 it had four houses, and its population was never great ...

, a town in Indiana * Hardscrabble, New York, now Farmingdale, New York *

Hardscrabble, Ohio Hardscrabble is a former settlement in Coshocton County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. Hardscrabble was a coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon w ...

* Hardscrabble, Ontario, a village incorporated into the town of Hamilton, Ontario, today's Cobourg, Ontario, Canada *

Hardscrabble, Virginia Hardscrabble is an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia, United States. Hardscabble is located north of Monterey, Virginia near the border with West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic a ...

, an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia * Hardscrabble, West Virginia, now Scrabble, West Virginia * Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble, Wisconsin, now

Hazel Green (town), Wisconsin Hazel Green is a town in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,043 at the 2000 census. The Village of Hazel Green is located partially within the town. The unincorporated community of Prairie Corners is located in the town. ...

Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Hard Scrabble (Addison Hollow) and Snow Town were two African American neighborhoods located in Providence, Rhode Island in the nineteenth century. They were also the sites of race riots in which working-class whites destroyed multiple black hom ...

, two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island *

Hardscrabble Canyon The Wet Mountains are a small mountain range in southern Colorado, named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter as compared to the dried Great Plains to the east. They are a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in the southern R ...

, in the Wet Mountains, in Colorado * Hardscrabble Pass, in Colorado *

Hardscrabble River Hardscrabble River is the estuary of Wilson Stream, a small river in Washington County, Maine. From its source () in Charlotte, Wilson Stream runs about southeast to Dennys Bay. It changes name to Hardscrabble River at about the point where it ...

, the estuary of Wilson Stream, a small river in Washington County, Maine

Historic sites

* Hardscrabble, a log cabin built by Ulysses S. Grant, now located at

Grant's Farm Grant's Farm is a historic farm, and long-standing landmark in Grantwood Village, Missouri, built by Ulysses S. Grant on land given to him and his wife by his father in law Frederick Fayette Dent shortly after they became married in 1848. It ...

, Grantwood Village, Missouri * Hardscrabble (Bahama, North Carolina), a historic plantation house *

Hardscrabble Farm Hardscrabble Farm is a historic farm property in rural Searsmont, Maine. Located south of its village center at 122 Maine State Route 131, the property features a typical New England connected farmstead with a c. 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse. T ...

, an historic farm property and Greek Revival farmhouse in rural Searsmont, Maine

Other uses

*''Hardscrabble'', a 2012 electronic music album by

The Flashbulb Benn Lee Jordan (born October 28, 1979) is an American musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999, his most widely distributed electronic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb. Other names Jordan has released as are ...

* Hardscrabble Open (also known as the Hardscrabble Women's Invitation), a golf tournament played at the Hardscrabble Golf Club (also known as the Hardscrabble Country Club) in Fort Smith, Arkansas from 1945 to 1953; it was an official LPGA Tour event from 1948 to 1950 {{geodis