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[1] [2] Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford). Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the U.S., is named after the first U.S. President George Washington, whose surname was due to his family holding land in Washington, Tyne and Wear.
Eight out of fifty U.S. States are named after European royalty, seven of which were monarchs or consorts. [1] Georgia - King George II of Great Britain. Louisiana - King Louis XIV of France. Maryland - Queen Henrietta Maria of England. New York - James, Duke of York. Later became King James II of England. [2] North Carolina - King Charles IX ...
This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country ...
Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6. Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names : Their Origin and Meaning. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520212718. Callary, Edward (2009). Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033568.
The name "American Samoa" first started being used by the U.S. Navy around 1904, [112] and "American Samoa" was made official in 1911. [113] District of Columbia: 1738: Neo-Latin: Columbia: Named for Columbia, the national personification of the United States, which is itself named for Christopher Columbus. Guam: 1898 [115] [note 2] (December ...
This is a list of places in the United States and Canada named for residents of British North America who remained loyal to the British Crown up to and through the American Revolution. In what would become the United States, many prominent Loyalists and their families played integral roles in the development of the Thirteen Colonies .
By Jerry Kronenberg You know that Washington, D.C., is named for America's first president, but did you know that Harrison City, Pa., (population 134) honors ninth president William Henry Harrison ...
Places in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Port Blair (after Archibald Blair, Esq, Captain in the Maritime Establishment of the East India Company at Bombay) Ritchie's Archipelago (after John Ritchie, 18th-century British marine surveyor) Napier Bay Island Group (likely after Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, C-in-C India (1870 – 1876))