{"id":8650,"date":"2011-06-21T17:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2022-05-14T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:47:58","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joyoflife\/46557710635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7834\/46557710635_da36fa9208_b.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome mat. Photo by Julie Kertesz; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome. It sounds so <em>welcoming<\/em> when used as a town name, as if the town founders and developers genuinely wanted visitors and residents alike to enjoy their time there. It sets a nice tone and a pleasant expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Settlements named Welcome exist in a number of areas. I&#8217;m actually a little surprised there aren&#8217;t a few more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome, North Carolina<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!4v1623236838289!6m8!1m7!1s7nSNL0TyXtAwy2tBJmFmXg!2m2!1d35.92385060058025!2d-80.24456381293514!3f285.667436170059!4f-5.268609415532893!5f3.325193203789971\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome, North Carolina is the largest of the Welcomes, with nearly four thousand residents. If you&#8217;ve heard of a Welcome, it&#8217;s probably this one. Nonetheless, it might receive more attention if it stood in a slightly less populated area. Several much larger towns and cities nearby such as Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point and Lexington tend to overshadow it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I appreciate the sign they\u2019ve placed along the road into town. You might be able to make it out in the Street View image: &#8220;Welcome to Welcome&#8221; is what it proclaims. It&#8217;s not entirely creative. But give them points for simplicity and sincerity. I can&#8217;t think of any other town names where one could create such an elegant symmetry. I take that back &#8212; how about &#8220;Amble to <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/HnVGRYMYtgs2qMmu7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amble, Michigan<\/a>.&#8221; Are there others? Maybe you can come up with better ones. That&#8217;s a contest, folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome, the town, is most notable as the home base of Richard Childress Racing and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcrracing.com\/rcr-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> RCR Museum<\/a>, for those of you who follow NASCAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome, Minnesota<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d23088.265901232648!2d-94.61897362651523!3d43.66827855679598!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x87f36247099cf809%3A0x2670034e0f4ce88d!2sWelcome%2C%20MN%2056181!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1623237454758!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the town of Welcome, Minnesota, offers a hearty welcome too. Several hundred people call this town home but I could find precious little more about it. It has great access to Interstate 90. Anything else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do know the name came from a gentleman who owned a farm on the outskirts of town in the Nineteenth Century. Over time the town grew onto his land and eventually took his name. Alfred Welcome was an English immigrant who arrived in the years after the U.S. Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That leaves me to wonder if Welcome is truly welcoming. They named it for a person rather than a genuine expression of emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Others<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed several other Welcome towns. <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/HwbpEjLuTsG8z9av7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Welcome, Georgia<\/a> includes streets with names like Welcome Rd., Welcome Sargent Rd., and Welcome-to-Arnco Rd. In Mississippi the townspeople are even more receptive. Here they call it <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/F4dmnGoXpFPmSfw9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bewelcome<\/a>. Visitors must <em>be welcome<\/em> here, I guess. The street grid includes some rather descriptive names that I may have to research further someday: Busy Corner Road (which doesn\u2019t seem to have any busy corners) and my personal favorite, Old 24 Compromise Road. Surely there&#8217;s a story behind that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Welcomes traced to: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/3UPvqhbjWtS1aE4WA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Va6acMRTdf5DmorA8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/wgiih3khARbgZSzN6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/yVQC9gy9cNsnwhGr9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virginia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/NowYrxaLwUYbdkwU6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome Stranger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/52846207@N04\/5667954022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5104\/5667954022_741c71b705_b.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Stranger Monument, Moliagul. Photo by Matt; (CC BY-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The Welcome Stranger Monument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welcome_Stranger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Welcome Stranger<\/a> isn&#8217;t a town. It&#8217;s the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, weighing in at an astounding 72 kilograms (159 pounds). That&#8217;s a lot of welcome! Prospectors discovered it in 1869 in Victoria, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was so impressive that authorities placed an obelisk at the spot a few decades later. They called it the Welcome Stranger Monument (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/DwcYyujm9J8H6o2B6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). 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