Anyone from the non-club driving a 914 in Mahomet IL on Saturday?, a nice cream colored 914 with a young lady driving Options

[mikelsr]

It isn't often I get to see another 914 in town but there was one on Saturday with a young lady driving it. I was just wondering if someone on the club owns it (or knows who owns it).

Mike

[mikelsr]

And Mahomet is a dry town! There is a petition to get it on the ballot to go wet again.

Now for a little history lesson from wikipedia.org:

Mahomet, Illinois appears to be the only place in the United States currently named for the prophet Muhammad, although a small community, located near Bertram, Texas, was also known as Mahomet. The Illinois town's name derives from the "Mahomet Lodge," the local Masonic Lodge at the time the town was searching for a new name. Its use as the name of the lodge was a manifestation of the Freemasons' liberal use of Muslim names and symbols. An alternative theory states that the name Mahomet was arbitrarily assigned when the conflicting names were noted by the US Postal Service.

End of history lesson.

I've lived here for twenty years and I had only heard the story about the USPS giving Mahomet its name. Mahomet used to be called Middletown but there was another Middletown in IL so we had to change.

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