# Where would you be posting from if they'd kept the original name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071 "2004-05-07T20:45:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/21 "2004-05-07T23:57:33Z")
Old Bridge (I think, but possibly the Lawrence plantation), now East Brunswick. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/22 "2004-05-08T00:00:46Z")
Earpville. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/23 "2004-05-08T00:02:06Z")
Another one from Duwamps here, just across the bay from Alki-New York. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/24 "2004-05-08T00:03:16Z")
Make that New York-Alki. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/25 "2004-05-08T00:07:19Z")
**Riley’s Switch** is what the city of Clovis, New Mexico used to be called before it was a governmental entity. –SSgtBaloo ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/26 "2004-05-08T00:34:29Z")
In various different Native American languages, it was simply described by what was there. Mountains to the East, grasslands and red dirt North and South, mesas to the West. With loads of lakes and rivers. After Coranado explored it, it was part of the Louisianna Territory. After the US got it, it was used as Indian Territory for relocating 67 Indian tribes. The name Oklahoma actually means Red People in the Choctaw language. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/27 "2004-05-08T00:41:18Z")
New Amsterdam here. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/28 "2004-05-08T01:16:23Z")
The area staked out as [Lafayette]([http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/special/marquis/CelebratingLafayette/towntributes.htm#Laf](http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/special/marquis/CelebratingLafayette/towntributes.htm#Laf), IN) on May 25, 1825 received its current name on that date. However, I’m posting this particular message from [West Lafayette](http://www.city.west-lafayette.in.us/about/history.html), which was styled “Jacktown” by its first non-Indian settlers. ---
**Author:** ![OneYogini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@OneYogini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneYogini)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/29 "2004-05-08T01:44:29Z")
“When the second Seminole war ended in 1842, American settlers began following soldiers into Central Florida. Originally named **Jernigan** after Aaron Jernigan who came from Georgia in 1843, the town’s name was permanently changed to **Orlando** in 1857. The name is credited to Orlando Reeves, a U.S. soldier who was killed in 1835 by an Indian’s arrow while on duty at what is now Lake Eola Park in Downtown Orlando.” ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/30 "2004-05-08T02:05:50Z")
> [@](#): > > The City of Jackson was founded in 1821 at the site of a trading post situated on a bluff on the west bank of the Pearl River. Legend tells that the trading post ws operated by a French-Canadian trader named Louis LeFleur, and the town originally was called LeFleur’s Bluff. xx ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/31 "2004-05-08T02:34:44Z")
Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Better known as Auckland, New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/32 "2004-05-08T02:59:18Z")
Vancouver and Quadra Island until some time in the 19th century ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/33 "2004-05-08T03:02:11Z")
To the best of my knowledge, this place has never been known as anything other than Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the town named after a berry. (And what a delicious berry it is! :)) ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/34 "2004-05-08T03:11:19Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > To the best of my knowledge, this place has never been known as anything other than Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the town named after a berry. (And what a delicious berry it is! :)) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan has got to be my favorite place name. I first discovered it when I was typing my family geneology for my Grandmother twenty five years ago. Say hi to all my distant cousins! (Didn’t realize there was a berry, cool!). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/35 "2004-05-08T03:34:04Z")
Oh, and for awhile I lived in _Hog Haven_, better known today as Moscow, ID. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/36 "2004-05-08T03:45:28Z")
Amstelledamme first, then Amstelredam. [ofcourse, because the Dutch build a city on a dam] ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/37 "2004-05-08T05:27:28Z")
Pile o’Bones, Rupert’s Land ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/38 "2004-05-08T05:37:31Z")
A little north of Yerba Buena. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/39 "2004-05-08T07:00:44Z")
From the great state of Transylvania. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/40 "2004-05-08T08:12:00Z")
> [@gum](#): > > Amstelledamme first, then Amstelredam. [ofcourse, because the Dutch build a city on a dam] Same here; I’m actually in the old part of the city. (Don’t you _ever_ sleep? 😉 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071.md?page=3)