Hog-Eye

A Hog-Eye in Missouri is a small compact place sunk in a hollow. There were once several places in Missouri called Hog-Eye:

• Hog-Eye in Vernon County, Missouri, renamed Nevada in 1855
• Hog-Eye in Saint Francois County, Missouri, renamed Haggai in 1890, although it still retained its old pronunciation
• Hog-Eye in Wayne County, Missouri, renamed Lowndes
• Hog-Eye in Dallas County, Missouri, renamed Charity
• Hogeye, Texas in Hunt County, Texas
• Hogeye, Arkansas, near Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Hogeye, California, former name of Keyesville, California
• Hog Eye, West Virginia

Other uses for Hog-Eye or Hogeye include:

• The Hogeye Marathon and Relays, held in Fayetteville, Arkansas
• The Hogeye Festival, held in Elgin, Texas
• Hogeye (ISBN 0-395-74276-5), a children's novel by Susan Meddaugh
• A Hog-Eye was distinctive flat-bottom boat or barge used in the shallow waters surrounding San Francisco Bay during the California Gold Rush, named from the dismissive name 'ditch-hog' applied to rivermen by deep-water sailors^{[citation needed]}
• The term "hog-eye" was used in early blues songs as a euphemism for the female genitalia^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Pig's Eye (disambiguation)