Hardscrabble

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:

• Ione, California, formerly Hardscrabble
• Streator, Illinois, formerly Hardscabble
• Farmingdale, New York, formerly Hardscrabble
• Hardscrabble, Ohio
• Scrabble, West Virginia, formerly Hard Scrabble
• Hardscrabble, Indiana, town in Indiana
• Hardscrabble, Delaware, unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware
• Hardscrabble, a neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Hard Scrabble and Snow Town, two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island
• The village of "Hardscrabble", incorporated into the town of Hamilton, today's Cobourg, Ontario
• Hardscrabble (album), a 2012 electronic music album by The Flashbulb
• A log cabin built by Ulysses S. Grant, now located at Grant's Farm