Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shaft Ox Corner, Delaware

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 04:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Shaft Ox Corner, Delaware

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Some news fluff article I came across while researching these said that there was a lot of history in all these "corners", but it would have helped their case a lot if anyone had ever bothered to write any of it down! In the case of this one, I can find one reference to it explaining what the name means, a whole series of name drops in novels for whatever reason, and one passing reference to it as a "hamlet". The aerials say that there was nothing whatsoever there until sometime between the mid 1950s and 1980s, when the garage, a pair of houses, and the inevitable commercial chicken house appear. THat's all that's there now, and while if you go back far enough in the topos, there's a building where the garage is now, it has n o connection with what's there now, and I can find nothing else except a couple of odd town name lists. Mangoe (talk) 04:15, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:33, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:33, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a decent-length news piece discussing the possible name situations. This is not significant - just states where "shaft ox" comes from and calls it a T intersection. 1966 Geological Survey bulletin calls it a "locality". I sincerely expected to find enough to support an article on this subject, but all I could find was a couple brief pieces about four sentences long stating that they use to have oxen here and there's a term called "shaft ox" and then one local article based on local folklore. Does not seem to appear in county history. So delete I guess. Agree with Mangoe that this probably has history of some sort, but it doesn't seem to have been recorded. Hog Farm _Talk 05:15, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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