There’s also a Manchester, CT. And are you referring to New London, NH? There’s one of those in Connecticut, too.
Also in Connecticut are Glastonbury, Marlborough, Windsor, and Groton, to name just a few more.
There’s also a Manchester, CT. And are you referring to New London, NH? There’s one of those in Connecticut, too.
Also in Connecticut are Glastonbury, Marlborough, Windsor, and Groton, to name just a few more.
The New England region in general is ridiculous about having a standard set of names from Merry Old England that appear in each of the six New England states or most of them anyway. The states aren’t that big so it can get confusing when two or more places with the same name are within easy driving distance. It is like the early English settlers brought a book of existing place name when England with them and they thought those were the only ones they could pick from.
There’s a number of Versailleses, most of which are pronounced with shameless disregard for the French.
Within easy driving distance of my former home in Harrisburg, PA, there are towns called York, Carlisle, Lancaster and Reading. There are also smaller settlements named Shrewsbury, Manchester and Campbeltown.
As far as I can tell, Scotland, PA is a suburb of Chambersburg.
ahem As a Hispanic comedian put it a number of years back, in a line delivered after working up Anglo audiences: “Hey! If it wasn’t for us you people wouldn’t have any place names!”
(Which lets me slide in a plug for Harry Turtledove’s Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, which hilarilously rewrites Southern California on an all-Anglo basis.)
Birmingham, Alabama.
Both Rome and Athens are in Georgia, but probably only wine aficionados notice that Valle d’Aosta is too.
I know Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I. She was unmarried and thus was called, slyly, “the Virgin Queen” (because everyone knew she wasn’t). To my knowledge Virginia remains the only state whose name calls British monarch a whore.
What is your basis for this interpretation?
She almost certainly was, at least in the technical sense. The risk of getting pregnant would have been far too great (in the sense that she would have been executed, and the country would probably have ended up ruled by Spain, and returned to Catholicism).
Which isn’t to say she didn’t have a certain amount of fun with her favourites.
It also sounds like the animal Luke and Han rode around on in The Empire Strikes Back.
And you thought they smelled bad on the outside!
There’s Dover, Delaware and Dover, New Jersey. And Newark, Delaware and Newark, New Jersey. There must be hundreds, if not thousands of answers to this question.
American places that are not named after places in (someone or other’s) old country would probably be a shorter list.
Is New Castle named after Newcastle ?
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland. Named for King George II, Charles I (both N and S), and Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, respectively. Then Louisiana for King Louis XIV.
Baltimore also has an area called Dundalk, presumably named for the Irish town of that name.
The title “Lord Baltimore” does derive from an Irish placename (although not the well-known village in Co. Cork), but the holders of that title were not Irish, had no personal connection to Ireland and probably never visited Ireland.
Paris, Tx
Odessa, Tx
Dublin, Tx
New Braunfels, Tx
Muenster, Tx
New Orleans
Boerne, Bergheim, New Sweden, New London, Scotland, Somerset, Palestine and even Delhi can be added to to the Texas List.