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), Pennsylvania, a former neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Hardscrabble, California, now Ione, California Hardscrabble, Colorado, an extinct town in Colorado Hardscrabble, Illinois, now Streator, Illinois Hardscrabble, Indiana, a town in Indiana Hardscrabble, New York, now Farmingdale, New York Hardscrabble, Ohio Hardscrabble, Ontario, a village incorporated into the town of Hamilton, Ontario, today's Cobourg, Ontario, Canada Hardscrabble, Texas, a defunct 1840s settlement in southern Dallas County, Texas Hardscrabble, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia Hardscrabble, West Virginia, now Scrabble, West Virginia Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble, Wisconsin, now Hazel Green (town), Wisconsin Hard Scrabble and Snow Town, two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island Hardscrabble Canyon, in the Wet Mountains, in Colorado Hardscrabble Pass, in Colorado Hardscrabble Peak, in Montana Hardscrabble River, the estuary of Wilson Stream, a small river in Washington County, Maine