“Locations in the United States with an English name”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies.

Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester, Birmingham and Rochester). Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II).^[1]^[2] Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford).

The American capital Washington, D.C. is named after the first U.S. President George Washington, whose surname was due to his family holding land in Washington, County Durham.

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Nebraska

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Miscellaneous

See also

References

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9. ^{{California's Geographic Names|101}}
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17. ^Morris, Allen Covington and Morris, Joan Perry. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dp5kwOwlBeYC&pg=PT215#v=onepage&q&f=false Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs]. Pineapple Press Inc, 1995, p.198.
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19. ^"A Bit of a Chester History Lesson", City of Chester website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-12.
20. ^Savage, Tom. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DxagLIZHNv4C A dictionary of Iowa place-names]. University of Iowa Press, 2007.
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22. ^Named after Bromley, the birthplace of Charles Collins, a pharmacist who laid out the town in Kentucky in 1848. {{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=36}}.
23. ^Possibly named after Dover, believed to be the birthplace of the founder's father. {{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=84}}.
24. ^{{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=178}}.
25. ^Manchester's founders envisioned it would become a large industrial city like Manchester, England.{{harvnb|Rennick|1988|pages=186–87}}.
26. ^Believed to have been originally named after Willoughby, England, from where the ancestors of the area's settler's were thought to have emigrated; the name "Williba" was supposedly a corruption adopted by its first postmaster to fit the name on a rubber stamp. {{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=320}}.
27. ^{{citation |title=Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns |volume=5 |first=Ava Harriet |last=Chadbourne |publisher=B. Wheelwright |year=1955 |page=73}}.
28. ^Named after Old Boothby in Lincolnshire. {{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|page=71}}.
29. ^{{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|page=72}}.
30. ^{{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|page=70}}.
31. ^History of Cambridge, Maine.
32. ^{{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|page=85}}.
33. ^Named after the manor of Kittery Court, located on Kittery Point in Kingswear, the birthplace of founder Alexander Shapleigh. {{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|p=47}}.
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35. ^{{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|page=49}}.
36. ^{{harvnb|Chadbourne|1955|page=3}}.
37. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=15}}
38. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2482|title= Profile for Cambridge, Maryland, MD|publisher= ePodunk |accessdate=8 April 2016}}
39. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA148#v=onepage&q&f=false | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=148}}
40. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=173}}
41. ^{{cite book|author1=Nancy M. Warner |author2=Ralph B. Levering |author3=Margaret Taylor Woltz | title=Carroll County, Maryland: a history, 1837-1976| location=United States| year=1976| page=35}}
42. ^{{cite web|title=Olney History|url=http://www.olneymd.org/pages/OlneyHistory|website=Olney Chamber of Commerce|publisher=Olney Chamber of Commerce|accessdate=8 April 2016}}
43. ^{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Place Names: a geographical encyclopedia|year=2001|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|page=256}}
44. ^{{citation |title=American place-names: a concise and selective dictionary for the continental United States of America |author=George Rippey Stewart |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1970}}
45. ^{{citation |last=Wick |first=Douglas A.|title=Leeds (Benson County) |url=http://www.webfamilytree.com/North_Dakota_Place_Names/L/leeds_%28benson_county%29.htm |work=North Dakota Place Names |accessdate=January 10, 2012}} (named for Leeds in Yorkshire).
46. ^{{citation |title=History – 1908 to Today |url=http://www.bexley.org/about/history?start=1 |publisher=City of Bexley, Ohio |accessdate=January 10, 2012}} ("The name came from the parish housing the Kilbourne family estate in Kent, England.").
47. ^{{citation |first=Donna Casity |last=McSpadden |title=Chelsea |work=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CH013.html |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |accessdate=January 10, 2012}} ("Railroad official Charles Peach named the site for his native Chelsea, England.").
48. ^{{citation |last=Wilson |first=Linda D. |title=Manchester |work=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MA009.html |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |accessdate=January 10, 2012}} ("Historian George Shirk asserts that the town was named for Manchester, England, while Charles Gould claims it refers to a former hometown in the East.").
49. ^¹{{cite book | last=Van Cott | first=John W | title=Utah Place Names | publisher=University of Utah Press | location=Salt Lake City | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-87480-345-7}}