The Indian riding an “Indian” motorcycle is an iconic picture on the internet. You see it all the time. The picture is actually part of the State Library and Archives of Florida whose goal is to illuminate the state’s history and culture.
It sounds unbelievable, but this actually happened. In September 1910, the Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Evening Star, ran the following
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Times were hard and families were doing all they could do just to survive. Families, children, and animals were daily fighting off hunger. Part of the daily routine was for mothers to send their children up to the store to barter for goods. Fresh eggs were acceptable currency at most general stores. They’d barter for “Two Eggs” of sugar, “Two Eggs” of flour, or “Two Eggs” of snuff, tobacca, or candy. Some of the traveling Drummers (traveling salesmen) observed so many people bartering at the ol’ Lawrence Grocery that they hung the moniker of “Two Egg” on the town. Well the drummers spread the name “Two Egg” all over that part of the country. And Lo’ n B’hold the moniker stuck and the little cross roads became famously known among those parts as Two Egg. In 1940, the name Two Egg appeared on an official State of Florida road map and has been there ever since.