Haymarket？

The only Haymarket I know of is in the Italian section of Boston which is an open air market for vegetables, fish, fruit et al. Excellent place.

It is a Virginia town approximately 33 miles from Front Royal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket,_Virginia

And a name borrowed from the old country, like so many others.
There's a well-known Edinburgh street called Haymarket.

There is a street or location named Haymarket in many British towns. In the middle ages market towns served as regional centres for agricultural and farm business. This would have where there was a market where guess what: hay was bought and sold. You will also find names such as Corn Street, Cornmarket, Cattle Market, Horsefair etc. Stamford in Lincolnshire has a Sheepmarket.

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Contrex wrote:
There is a street or location named Haymarket in many British towns.

It's not all that uncommon in some older US cities either. The "Haymarket martyrs" referred to in a popular left wing protest song of the early 20th Century were some anarchists killed by Chicago police during a demonstration/riot in that city's Haymarket location. When younger, I too (like Sglass) thought the reference was to Boston's Haymarket Square. I was set straight by my very left-wing-oriented first wife.

For sure. In the times before the internal combustion engine, the transport in towns ran on...hay!

Does anyone know of a modern town or district called Gas Station?

No, but i was always amused by Stop and Swap, Georgia, and mystified by Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky.

By the way, there are/were lots of towns in the United States named College Station, because there was a whistle stop there for trains passing near the once newly founded universities. Some retain the name, others have changed theirs. The University of Illinois was founded on the outskirts of Urbana, Illinois. The railroad obligingly put a station nearby, and a town grew up there, known as College Station. It is now known as Champaign, Illinois, and the university is now known as the Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The folks in Champaign don't much like that, since they are now a much larger town than Urbana. Such silly pettiness . . .