Hardscrabble

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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, 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
• Hardcrabble, Ontario, a village incorporated into the town of Hamilton, Ontario, today's Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
• Hardscrabble, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Hardscrabble, West Virginia, now Scrabble, West Virginia
• Hard Scrabble and Snow Town, two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island

Other meanings

• Hardscrabble, a log cabin built by Ulysses S. Grant, now located at Grant's Farm
• Hardscrabble (album), a 2012 electronic music album by The Flashbulb