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词条 Hardscrabble
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  1. Historic sites

  2. Other uses

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Hardscrabble, or Hard Scrabble, is a term used to describe rocky or poor quality land, as in the term hardscrabble farm. It is often used as a euphemism for any sort of hard working or poverty, as in hardscrabble childhood. A number of towns used this name:

  • Hardscrabble (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Hardscrabble, California, now Ione, California
  • Hardscrabble, Colorado, an extinct town in Colorado
  • Hardscrabble, Delaware, an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware
  • Hardscrabble, Illinois, now Streator, Illinois
  • Hardscrabble, Indiana, a town in Indiana
  • Hardscrabble, New York, now Farmingdale, New York
  • Hardscrabble, Ohio
  • Hardscrabble, Ontario, a village incorporated into the town of Hamilton, Ontario, today's Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
  • Hardscrabble, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia
  • Hardscrabble, West Virginia, now Scrabble, West Virginia
  • Hard Scrabble and Snow Town, two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island
  • Hardscrabble Canyon, in the Wet Mountains, in Colorado
  • Hardscrabble Pass, in Colorado
  • Hardscrabble River, the estuary of Wilson Stream, a small river in Washington County, Maine

Historic sites

  • Hardscrabble, a log cabin built by Ulysses S. Grant, now located at Grant's Farm, Grantwood Village, Missouri
  • Hardscrabble (Bahama, North Carolina), a historic house
  • Hardscrabble Farm, an historic farm property and Greek Revival farmhouse in rural Searsmont, Maine

Other uses

  • Hardscrabble, a 2012 electronic music album by The Flashbulb
  • Hardscrabble Open (also known as the Hardscrabble Women's Invitation), a golf tournament played at the Hardscrabble Golf Club (also known as the Hardscrabble Country Club) in Fort Smith, Arkansas from 1945 to 1953; it was an official LPGA Tour event from 1948 to 1950
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