[gcruse]

"Sopchoppy?"

If it is cruel for parents to give their children ridiculous names, how more so than to name a town Sopchoppy?

[MarkWar]

>If it is cruel for parents to give their children ridiculous names, how more so than to name a town Sopchoppy?

It's Florida.

The city founders probably misread the municipal incorporation forms...

Mark W.

[ExpatGator]

As an ex-resident of Sopchoppy I thought it appropriate to enlighten you as to the origin of the name. It is a bastardization of the local indian term meaning "mysterious waters". The water referred to is the Sopchoppy River which is a beautiful little, dark-watered, mostly canopied river that meanders around and through the town.

The townspeople are for the most part honest, hard-working folks whos' ancestors built a great little town in the middle of what later became the Appalachicola National forest. It is still quite rural and they like it that way. Lots of wildlife and the Revell (one of the founding families I believe) was not joking when he mentioned the rattlers, we still have the skin of the rattler that bit my youngest son.