Misspelled place names are not uncommon. However, it should be expected that official authorities give places the correct names. Yet, things can sometimes go wrong. This was also the case in Zuidbarge, a village near Emmen in the province of Drenthe....
For once, not a lost place name, but a lost province! On May 1, 1873, an auxiliary post office was established in Alem, belonging to the jurisdiction of the 's-Hertogenbosch post office. The postmaster was provided with an office name stamp. Only more than twelve years...
In a poetry album I once found a little rhyme: In heaven there are angels, on earth there are none, but if there were on earth, you would certainly be one... If I an imprint of the stamp...
Wittebrug, a hamlet situated between The Hague, Wassenaar, and Scheveningen. When it was decided in 1828 to construct a canal between the center of The Hague and Scheveningen, bridges also had to be built across it. A bridge at the height of...
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