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Foreign Cities in the U.S.

24 September 2006 | thoughts

It’s just amazing how many names of cities in the U.S. are borrowed from other countries, even other states. Some cities are even named after other countries. What cities in the U.S. have you been where the city name has originated from another country?

City and state you visited (should be an exact match)
Originating country

Example:
Bristol, PA
Bristol, England, UK
I’m going to start collecting these for an interesting study :)

4 Comments so far

  1. Michael October 23rd, 2006 2:06 am

    Does Paris, Texas count? Redding, California does I think, since there is a Redding in England. Of course the best if Palermo, California near my hometown of Oroville. While borrowed from the Italian area, it ain’t anything like Italian. Full of hicks and trailers it is. While we’re on it, what about Venice, California?

  2. ckubitsky October 23rd, 2006 10:06 pm

    Well, there’s a Reading in Pennsylvania which connects back with that Reading in England. I do believe Paris, TX counts as well as Venice, CA and Palermo, CA. Thanks a bunch!

  3. Jim Doria October 24th, 2006 10:26 am

    Sometimes it seems like there are only two types of place names here on the east coast: Native American-derived names and names stolen (sorry, “borrowed”) from elsewhere, mostly Europe and England, but also the middle east (due to the biblical connection.)

    I grew up in Easton, PA, but there is a small town called Easton near Norwich in the UK. I lived for a while in Westbury, NY, but there is also a Westbury in Wiltshire, UK. Long Island also has the Hamptons (English) and of course PA has Lebanon, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, all biblical names. Philadelphia, too, has a biblical origin (I remember seeing it on the map that was printed inside the back cover of the bible I had when I was in Sunday School) although I think the name is actually Greek.

    I guess there is a third major category: places named after people. I currently live in Trenton (”Trent-towne”) which was named after settler William Trent.

    I also visited Denmark, ME once! :-)

  4. ckubitsky October 24th, 2006 6:47 pm

    You are absolutely right, Jim. Being an information architect, drudging through data like this, looking for patterns is great fun for me. I suspect there will be a few categories for city names.

    Thanks so much for the additions and the insight. I’m going to record this and post my progress on figuring out these buckets of city names later.

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