Whence the Name "KUMIS" ?

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While  making no claim to insights about the name Kumis, I can offer that 
after forty  years of living in Montgomery County, I have never heard  the 
"locals"  use the name, have never seen it in the newspaper, and never seen it 
on maps  or road signs. The community near there is Lafayette. The name 
Kumis appears a  railroad related name only.


Railroads often identified locations by railroad-related names  e.g. Page, 
WV for W.N. Page.
   Or Adsit for VGN's Traffic Manager ?  Plunkett for W. C.  Plunkett, a 
barrister for the VGN ?
    Don't know that VGN ever had an officer named  Kumis.  Perhaps he was 
on VGN's Bored
    of Directors.  Some railroad locations were  identified by local 
industries, e.g. Mabrico on
    the Winston District for MAdison  BRIck CO.. The "MI" in Kumis may have 
 reference to a mine.
 
    Virginian apparently had the foresight not to name it La  Fayette (as 
it appeared in early
     timetables).  In repeating train orders,  locations are pronounced 
then spelled.  Kumis was
     certainly shorter (by four alphas).  On  the Southern, think how much 
time was spent spelling
      Charlottesville.                                                      
  Harry Bundy 
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