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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
Isn't that also the name of the township?
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No idea, it just stuck in my mind when we went to the Highland games there when I was a kid, and again last year when we went there for rugby.
Edit: Yep, East Garafraxa Twp. From wikipedia:
While it is unknown how the name "Garafraxa" came to be, there are a number of theories to its origins:
It is derived from an Indian word meaning "panther country"
Commemorating an old Irish estate or castle
From the Scottish stream, the River Garry
From Gaelic fraoch garbh meaning "rough heath"
From local botany Saxifrage or Sassafras
Old English word gara or gar means either a small triangular piece of land or cloth as in a sail, and the Township could be considered part fracta of the Gore, or Gara