08/06/2026
For four decades we’ve been asked where our peculiar name comes from. 41 years ago, I went on a “camping trip” (I was back before nightfall) with my ex-husband, Dave. On the way home, we talked about how much fun it would be to open up our own shop. We stopped for lunch at a small town called Fishs Eddy and thought that if we did have a store, Fishs Eddy would be a good name even though it was spelled funny.
There wasn’t much to see in Fishs Eddy, just a post office and a cemetery.
When we looked at the gravestones in the cemetery, we realized that the town must have been named after the Fish family, and someone must have discovered an eddy in a stream somewhere in town. This was confirmed when, years later the great-great grandson of it’s founder, Hiram Fish, wrote us a letter.
I still visit Fishs Eddy all these years later. ❤️
