{"id":8324,"date":"2011-05-12T18:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2022-03-06T06:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T11:27:45","slug":"definitely-halfway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/definitely-halfway\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitely Halfway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think it was back in January when I focused on the little town of Halfway, Oregon<\/a>. I was pretty impressed when I thought they’d named it that way because of the nearby 45th parallel of latitude north — i.e., halfway between the equator and the North Pole. That turned out to be a false assumption. Nonetheless I still managed to find something interesting in Halfway. Then I tucked away thoughts of other “halfway” places for future exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Halfway.<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It didn’t take long to generate several lists of halfway place names. Many nations provide online databases that allowed keyword searching. I’m not going to reprint entire lists but I’ve included links to those resources should you wish to explore the subject further. Repeatedly, I asked myself as I reviewed the tallies, “halfway to what?<\/em>” It’s not often self-evident. Most of these landmarks are rather small. Additionally, many of the endpoints that determined halfway were obscure when originally designated and have continued to fade even more over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada<\/h2>\n\n\n\n