A video game I play has various places here and there across the map that follow the naming convention of assigning some intangible concept to a person. Like Dunelle’s Kindness or something similar.
I know that around the (real) world are several place names that are [Someone’s] [Real Thing], like Miller’s Crossing or Daniel’s Creek or whatever. But are there any real places named for [Someone’s] [Concept]?
First I can think of is Cape of Good Hope.
ETA: rereading OP, this probably doesn’t count.
The highest peak in Belize is called Doyle’s Delight.
The name Doyle’s Delight was first coined by Sharon Matola in a 1989 report. The name is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s book The Lost World (1912), which contains the quote “there must be something wild and wonderful in a country such as this, and we’re the men to find it out!”.
There are various towns in New Hampshire called Someone’s Purchase or Grant.
Note the location and bay is simply called “John’s Folly.”
There must be dozens of places called “[Name]’s Folly,” but that’s usually in reference to “folly” as in “ornamental building with no purpose,” not “foolishness.”
Wolferts Roost Country Club in Albany NY
The name of Karlsruhe in south west Germany, home to Germany’s apex courts, literally translates to “Charles’ repose”. It was founded in the early 18th century as a planned settlement for a baroque ruler, Charles III William of Baden-Durlach, as a new residence.
The legend to the Karlsruhe name (apparently sanctioned by the eponymous Karl) even was that he took a nap during hunting in the forest nearby, and dreamed of building a magnificient palace here.
Another building in Germany ist the palace of Friedrichsruh, seat of the von Bismarck family. Here the name came from a hunting lodge built for Count Friedrich zur Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1763.
Another German example: the palace and later town of Ludwigslust in Mecklenburg, ordered by one Christian Ludwig duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
I presume “lust” means something different in German than in English?
Dorsey’s Search and Harper’s Choice in Columbia, Maryland
The English and German words are certainly cognates, but the German word doesn’t have the sexual connotations that its English equivalent has. It can also mean pleasure more generally, including non-sexual pleasure, and a frequent idiom is “Lust haben”, which just means that you feel like doing something.
Good call. I imagine there are even more examples in Columbia. I don’t know if King’s Contrivance is an abstraction.
ETA: About Columbia’s naming conventions:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/columbia-maryland-street-names
Nitpick: the German word “Lust” doesn’t have an exclusive and principal sexual connotation, but it also can mean “sexual desire” in the meaning of the English word “lust”. IIRC, one of the seven deadly sins is still called “Lust” in German. Everything else you wrote is spot on, though.
I think the traditional German wording for sexual desire as one of the seven deadly sins is “Wollust”, which is a compound of “Lust”.
Ah, I think you’re right.
Likewise, there’s Drewry’s Bluff in Virginia…
Theories differ on the origin of the name but there is a Hudson’s Hope in BC.
There is a very small town (more of a village) called “Hope” in Alaska at the end of a dead-end road. I guess that doesn’t fit all the criteria of the OP, however.
I live near a “little place called Hope”
There’s a old road to Hope, AR called, with sign “Way to Hope”. I feel like eventually they’ll rename it Hopeway.
There’s a county road(which are numbered in some haphazard way that no can understand) here called Frenchies Dead. It’s a thru road, so they don’t mean Dead end and ran out of room. A guy named Frenchies wife killed him there. In the 1940s or something.
There are many “Five mile Roads” or other amount. I often wonder if it was actually 9.5 miles would they say “Nine and a half mile Road” on a sign?
Hmmm 