American cities named after foreign cities

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A few from Maine and New Hampshire come to mind right off the bat, but I’ll probably come up with a lot more later when I look at the atlas.

Bangor, Maine
Brunswick, Maine
Berlin, N.H. (say BER-lin)
Paris, Maine
Portsmouth, N.H.
Milan, N.H. (say MY-lin)
Calais, Maine (say CAL-us)
Manchester, N.H.
Leeds, Maine
Hanover, N.H.
Madrid, Maine (say MAD-rid)
Dublin, N.H.
Londonderry, N.H.
Derry, N.H.
York, Maine
Moscow, Maine (say MOS-kow not MOS-koe)
Oxford, Maine
Lancaster, N.H.
Rochester, N.H. (also Rochester, N.Y., but I happen to know that one was named after a person, a Colonel Rochester)

Toledo, Ohio
Lyons, New York (say LIE-inz)

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There is a Lebanon Kentucky ( or tennessee, I can never remember.

I live in **Oxford, Michigan ** which is the sister city of Oxford, England. They have a buncha colleges and lots of spectacular history.

We have a Feed Store, Star Bucks and a Multiplex. Woo.

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In New York:

Rome
Cairo
Athens
Amsterdam
Dunkirk
Waterloo

rastahomie, Manchester’s in Vermont.

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Kensington was a town, now a borough of the county of Greater London. It was never a county itself, Kent was and still is a county.

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Nice list chique, but you forgot Albertville(France).

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Ta, messiah, and merci, imthjckaz :wink:

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chique,is there a Foley anywhere else in the world?:smiley:

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Dear gawd I hope not :stuck_out_tongue:

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Don’t forget
Toledo, Ohio (Spain)
Naples, Florida

and …Phoenix, Arizona (Phoenicia?)

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Saint Zero, don’t forget Sebastapol, MS

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Also:

Athens, Wisconsin
Rome, Wisconsin
Sparta, Wisconsin

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From Interesting Names and Places in Oregon
Names of foreign cities used in Oregon

Berlin, Linn County
Troy, Wallowa County
Toledo, Lincoln County
Waterloo, Linn County
Liverpool, Linn County
Manila, Yamhill County
Elgarose, Douglas County
London Peak, Josephine County
Rome, Malheur and Marion Counties
Paris, Lane County
Dundee, Yamhill County
Bandon, Coos County
Malin, Klamath County

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Bath, Maine
Naples, Maine
Belgrade, Maine
Belfast, Maine
Bremen, Maine
Bristol, Maine
Buxton, Maine
Cambridge, Maine
Carthage, Maine
Chelsea, Maine
Corinth, Maine
Lisbon, Maine
Hanover, Maine
Hebron, Maine
Falmouth, Maine
Palmyra, Maine
Stockholm, Maine
Vienna, Maine
Waterford, Maine
Yarmouth, Maine

Bethlehem, N.H.
Lisbon, N.H
Bath, N.H.
Hebron, N.H.
Bristol, N.H.
Newport, N.H.
Nottingham, N.H.
Marlborough, N.H.

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And of course, the most common town name in the US is derived from the name of a foreign city:

Salem, short for Jerusalem.

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There is also a Prague, OK. Pronounced Prayg. But, of course, lengthened for drawl.

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Supposedly every capital city in Europe has a counterpart town or city with its name in the US. Obviously the Europeans got there first though.

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We had a thread about this in GQ a while back. Most Common Town Name I’m not sure how you define “town name”, but I don’t believe Salem is the most common placename in the U.S. There are “only” 98 populated places called Salem in the U.S. (120 if you count places named Jerusalem as well), but 131 populated places called Riverside. There are also more places called Centerville (122) than places called Salem. Other names that average more than one per state are Franklin and Springfield (both around 60). Of course, most of those are tiny unincorporated hamlets.

If you count only towns that have their own zip codes, several names (such as Franklin-27) beat Salem (24).

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I stand corrected.

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Yes, Boston is in Lincolnshire, England. It’s a small town near the East Coast.

Didn’t the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from there?
If so, I could look up a few nearby placenames, and you could tell me if they’re in use in the US.

P.S. Hampshire is an English County.
P.P.S. Before Coldfire sees it, Holland is not technically the name of The Netherlands (jolly nice country, though).

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No, I think they set sail from Plymouth (sound familiar?).

My hometown is Reading, Pennsylvania, in Berks County. Named after Reading, England, in the county of Berkshire. English people will kindly refrain from sniggering at Americans pronouncing “Berks” the way it’s spelled, as opposed to “BARKshur”.