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Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 to 1715. ... Baton Rouge, the state capital, is the second-largest city in the state. The most populous ...
St. Joseph (Founded by Joseph Robidoux IV, Missouri-born fur trader of French Canadian descent who named the city after himself) St. Louis (named after King Louis IX, later canonized as Saint Louis) St. Louis County; Ste. Genevieve (named after Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris) Ste. Genevieve County (named after Genevieve, the patron saint ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
Six of those are named in honor of European monarchs: the two Carolinas, the two Virginias, Georgia, and Louisiana. In addition, Maryland is named after Queen Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I of England, and New York after the then-Duke of York, who later became King James II of England.
9 Louisiana. 10 Massachusetts. 11 ... or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. ... New Jersey, Bergen Hill, Bergen Hill, Jersey City neighborhood, Bergen ...
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25
Pennsylvania: Named after the German capital city, Berlin. Berne: Indiana: Was settled by Mennonite Swiss immigrants, who named it after the capital city of Switzerland, Bern. [14] Berne: New York: Originally spelt "Bern," the town was initially settled by German Palatine refugees. Berne: Ohio: Named after the city of Bern by its first settler ...
Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II). [1] [2] Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford).