Alexandria
Athens
Bolivar
Brighton
Bristol
Camden
Carthage
Columbia
Dover
Erin
Gallaway (sp, but still)
Germantown
Hohenwald
Lebanon
Loudon
Memphis
Milan
Moscow
Normandy
Paris
Smyrna
South Carthage
Sparta
Winchester
We also have a tiny community named Three Way, Tennessee, which isn’t nearly as interesting as it sounds…
Nope. It outside of Spokane.
What be outside of Spokane? Mongo no unnerstan.
Ahhh sunuva gun That was in response to the question about Tokio Washington.
This is just from a quick ten minute perusal of townships, cities and counties in Pennsylvania that have websites, so there are bound to be many more:
Bethlehem
Cambria
Chester
Cumberland
Dublin
Edinboro
Ephrata
Hanover
King of Prussia (okay, named for a foreign person, but still)
Lebanon
London Grove
New Britain
New Kensington
New London
Northampton
Palmyra
Philadelphia
Plymouth
Reading
Somerset
Upper Dublin
Upper Southampton
York
I live in Bagdad, Kentucky.
People who live in Newark, Ohio pronounce their town’s name as “Nerk.” I wish I was kidding. :eek:
A few more:
Alexandria
Antioch
Belfast
Bogota
Brunswick
Cordova
Denmark
Dresden
Eaton
Lancaster
Manchester
Petersburg
Quebeck (not spelled right, but this is the South)
Rugby
Sardis
Newcastle’s up off Highway 80 past Sacramento.
And not just Venice, but Manhattan (both with ‘Beach’).
There’s also a Newark, CA (which I should have remembered), though upon checking, it’s named after Newark Castle in Scotland.
swampbear, does the pronunciation of the local Vienna differ from that of the Austrian one? Seems the same from what you wrote.
Kentucky also has Paris, Versailles, Glasgow and Winchester. Probably some others I can’t recall right now.
Oops, I forgot Lebanon, Brandenburg, Manchester, and London.
And Texas is in Queensland, Australia.
As for my own home state of New South Wales (which is actually the new “South Wales”, not the new and south “Wales”), there are too many British placenames to even list. It would be a good percentage of them. Some of the ones that seem obvious, however, aren’t named after British places. The Sydney suburb of Liverpool, for example, is named after a person.
The early settlers were big on themes, so the coal and steel city of Newcastle is surrounded by placenames that also surround Newcastle, England, such as “Wallsend”. After you travel west under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the wide harbour narrows to become the Parramatta River, the suburbs on either side are often named after places on the Thames. There’s a Canada Bay too.
Not much outside of British influence here though. I used to live in the Sydney suburb of Riverwood (formerly the very British “Herne Bay”), and there was an American military hospital there during WWII. There’s a big housing estate there now, and all the streets are named after US states and presidents.
There’s a Bagdad in Tasmania, and a Denmark in Western Australia.
Fer American Dopers, if you are not one of the Originals, yanno, Native American, all the names are furren.
Menominee, anyone?
Missouri
Mexico
Cuba
Columbia
Just a few off the top of my head
Well, there’s a part of my local town, built in the 1900s, named California.
There is also California Sands near Great Yarmouth, on the Suffolk / Norfolk border.
There is a Dunkirk in Kent, and according to what I can find, it is probably named after the town in France :-
- In the early 18th century there was a house on the Dunkirk/Boughton-under-Blean border called Dunkirk - and this gave its name to the area. And how did the house get its name? Perhaps between 1658 and 1662, when the French Dunkirk was an English possession, the owner had traded there successfully and named his house in Kent in remembrance of this. Dunkirk is in the part of France where Flemish, not French, was spoken, and the name means ‘the church on the dunes’. *
When I worked in Memphis we had a good-hearted but not, er, highly, er, exposed to the world outside the trailer park lady, who did some office work with us. As the highlight of her life she got to go on vacation in Alaska.
On her return she was euphoric with the experience (and God bless her to it), particularly the mountains, water, and so on. After she ran down she looked puzzled and added, “But there sure are a lot of towns in Alaska named after towns in Tennessee.”
I suggested mildly that maybe both of them were named after towns in other places.
She looked even more puzzled. Like wut?
I offered Milan, Tennessee.
She maxed out on puzzlement.
“What’s Milan named after?”
Here in Panama there’s a small town called Paris, but it’s named after an Indian chief, not the city in France.
There are very few places here named after other cities. (There may be a few, but I can’t think of any off hand.) There are a few places with the same names as other cities - San Francisco, Santiago - but it’s just because they were coincidentally named after the same saint.
There are also quite a few place names from south Wales (the old south Wales) around Newcastle, such as Cardiff, Swansea and Aberdare – so some of the coal miners came from Wales to New South Wales.