Milton Freewater is located in North East Oregon State. Often called M-F, M-F used to be the only
hyphenated town in the USA, until the post
officed dropped the hyphen.
The reason for the strange name: Originally there was only Milton. The founders of Milton wanted a "Dry" town (No alcohol). So a large group of folks decided to move a few miles away and start their own town--with alcohol. They got other folks to move from Milton by offering them "
free city water hookup". Voila!--Milton Freewater.
They later realized it was stupid to have two small towns and combined.
Years ago two drunk drug addicts wrote "Muddy Frogwater" on the road sign heading out of M-F. Now the town has adopted this as its slogan, and all the business have carved/painted frogs
out front. There are few real frogs in M-F, and it ain't real muddy.
Joey says: "Hey, lets get out of
Walla Walla and go to the
Muddy Frogwater
Festival in Milton Freewater tonight!"