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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.
Virginia's history begins with several Indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607, the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World, leading to Virginia's nickname as the Old Dominion. Slaves from Africa and land from displaced native tribes fueled the growing plantation ...
This partial list of city nicknames in Virginia compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in the U.S. state of Virginia are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
The name derived from Virginia being the first overseas dominion of English royalty. Virginia has several monikers, including the Mother of Presidents and Mother of States, but The Old Dominion ...
Virginia: The Old Dominion State Virginia is called "The Old Dominion State" because of its status as one of the original colonies and its historical significance as a loyalist colony during the ...
The nickname is a back-formation from the school's yell, "wa-hoo-wa." Official University of Virginia sports documents explain that Washington and Lee baseball fans first called University of Virginia players "a bunch of rowdy Wahoos," and used the "Wahoowa" yell as a form of derision during the in-state baseball rivalry in the 1890s, presumably after hearing them yell or sing "wa-hoo-wa."
West Virginia is located in the Appalachian Mountains, making the "Mountain State" a fitting nickname. West Virginia is located in the Appalachian Mountains. Zack Frank/Shutterstock
Virginia: Virginian Washington: Washingtonian West Virginia: West Virginian Mountaineer Wisconsin: Wisconsinite Badger, [59] Cheesehead, [60] [61] Sconnie, [62] Wisconsonian, Wisconsese Wyoming: Wyomingite Wyomese, [63] Wyomingian Spanish: wyominguita [64]