This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4U.2ADI/2035.1 Message Board Post: Jan, Three Brothers was not actually named for three brothers. The original name of the community was Vin and was established around 1900. The postmaster there, John Deatherage, requested that the name be changed to Three Brothers in honor of the three-humped mountain range nearby. There are, however, local legends that Three Brothers was named after the Deatherage brothers (John’s sons), or the Turnbo brothers (families that settled in that area), but descendants of those families say that the town was named after the local mountain range. If anyone else has a story about the naming of this town (or any other towns in Baxter County), please share them! Maryanne