Hog-Eye

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A Hog-Eye in Missouri is a small compact place sunk in a hollow. There were once several places in Missouri called Hog-Eye:

• Hog-Eye in Vernon County, Missouri, renamed Nevada in 1855.
• Hog-Eye in Saint Francois County, Missouri, renamed Haggai in 1890, although it still retained its old pronunciation.
• Hog-Eye in Wayne County, Missouri, renamed Lowndes.
• Hog-Eye in Dallas County, Missouri, renamed Charity.

Towns of this name in other states include:

• Hog-Eye in Jack County, Texas, a settlement of considerable size in 1860, but subsequently vanished.
• Hog-Eye in Hunt County, Texas.
• Hogeye, Arkansas, near Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Hog Eye, West Virginia

Other uses for Hog-Eye or Hogeye include:

• The Hogeye Marathon and Relays, held in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
• The Hogeye Festival, held in Elgin, Texas.
• As a symbol of school pride and several chants (however not the school mascot) at Livingston Academy in Livingston, Tennessee.
• Nickname of Bethsaida, Tennessee.

• Hogeye (ISBN 0-395-74276-5), A children's novel by Susan Meddaugh.

• A Hog-Eye was distinctive flat-bottom boat or barge used in the shallow waters surrounding San Francisco Bay during the California Gold Rush, named from the dismissive name 'ditch-hog' applied to rivermen by deep-water sailors.

• The term "hog-eye" was used in early blues songs as a euphemism for the female genitalia.