# Hardscrabble

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**Hardscrabble** or **Hard Scrabble** is land that is rocky or of poor quality, 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 use this name:

- [Hardscrabble (Harrisburg)](/source/Hardscrabble_(Harrisburg)), Pennsylvania, a former neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Hardscrabble, California, now [Ione, California](/source/Ione,_California)
- [Hardscrabble, Colorado](/source/Hardscrabble,_Colorado), an extinct town in Colorado
- Hardscrabble, Illinois, now [Streator, Illinois](/source/Streator,_Illinois)
- [Hardscrabble, Indiana](/source/Hardscrabble,_Indiana), a town in Indiana
- Hardscrabble, New York, now [Farmingdale, New York](/source/Farmingdale,_New_York)
- [Hardscrabble, Ohio](/source/Hardscrabble,_Ohio)
- Hardscrabble, Ontario, a village incorporated into the town of Hamilton, Ontario, today's [Cobourg, Ontario](/source/Cobourg,_Ontario), Canada
- Hardscrabble, Texas, a defunct 1840s settlement in southern [Dallas County, Texas](/source/Dallas_County,_Texas)
- [Hardscrabble, Virginia](/source/Hardscrabble,_Virginia), an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia
- Hardscrabble, West Virginia, now [Scrabble, West Virginia](/source/Scrabble,_West_Virginia)
- Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble, Wisconsin, now [Hazel Green (town), Wisconsin](/source/Hazel_Green_(town),_Wisconsin)
- [Hard Scrabble and Snow Town](/source/Hard_Scrabble_and_Snow_Town), two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island
- [Hardscrabble Canyon](/source/Hardscrabble_Canyon), in the Wet Mountains, in Colorado
- [Hardscrabble Pass](/source/Hardscrabble_Pass), in Colorado
- [Hardscrabble Peak](/source/Hardscrabble_Peak), in Montana
- [Hardscrabble River](/source/Hardscrabble_River), the estuary of Wilson Stream, a small river in Washington County, Maine

## Historic sites

- Hardscrabble, a log cabin built by Ulysses S. Grant, now located at [Grant's Farm](/source/Grant's_Farm), Grantwood Village, Missouri
- [Hardscrabble (Bahama, North Carolina)](/source/Hardscrabble_(Bahama,_North_Carolina)), a historic plantation house
- [Hardscrabble Farm](/source/Hardscrabble_Farm), an historic farm property and Greek Revival farmhouse in rural Searsmont, Maine
- Proposed name for [Beckham County, Kentucky](/source/Beckham_County,_Kentucky)

## Other uses

- *Hardscrabble*, a 2012 electronic music album by [The Flashbulb](/source/The_Flashbulb)
- [Hardscrabble Open](/source/Hardscrabble_Open) (also known as the Hardscrabble Women's Invitation), a golf tournament played at the Hardscrabble Golf Club (also known as the Hardscrabble Country Club) in Fort Smith, Arkansas from 1945 to 1953; it was an official LPGA Tour event from 1948 to 1950

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