Swastika is an
unincorporated community
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in the town of
Black Brook,
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
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**Clinton County, New York
**Clinton County, Ohio
*Counties named for DeWitt Clinton, s ...
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New York
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, United States. The community is 19 miles southwest of
Plattsburgh
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Swastika, Ontario
Swastika ( or ) is a small community founded around a mine site in Northern Ontario, Canada in 1908. Today it is within the municipal boundaries of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
Swastika ...
, the community is commonly included on
unusual place names lists because of its name.
History
A post office called Swastika, NY operated from 1913 until 1958. Edward Duprey, the town's last postmaster, told the ''Plattsburgh Press-Republican'' that the community was "previously known as Goodrich Mills." "The government sent a list of names," he explained of Swastika's origin. "It had nothing to do with the community. It was just a name for the post office", he added.
In September 2020, the town's councilors unanimously voted to keep the name despite the word's modern associations.
References
Hamlets in Clinton County, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)
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