Origin Story | City |
Named after a Kansas Territorial Governor by a land speculator trying to gain the favor of said governor | |
Named in honor of a town in Scott County, Minnesota which emphasizes the second syllable which is unlike an Arkansas town of the same spelling that emphasizes the first syllable | |
William Byrd II named this city after an English town which is presently a part of London | |
Named after a German chancellor in effort to attract German investment | |
Named for Stephen Frank, a pioneer in the 1870s who was killed by Indians while fording a river | |
A Muskogean Indian word usually translated as 'old fields' | |
Named for an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada | |
Named in honor of America's 3rd president | |
A Native American word meaning 'to dig good potatoes' | |
Because it was built upon Hohokam ruins, the founders named this city after a mythological creature that was also born from destruction | |
Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, named this city for a term meaning God's activity on earth | |
Formerly 'Lancaster,' this city was renamed after the assassination of America's 16th president | |
Named after the daughter of the 5th United States Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. | |
Formerly 'Rumford,' this city was renamed to reflect newfound harmony with the neighboring city of 'Bow' | |
This city and its fort of the same name are named after an American fur trader of French-Canadian origins | |
Named after the Spanish discoverer of the 'New World' | |
French explorer Sieur d'Iberville called this place 'the red stick' when he saw an Indian tribal boundary marker: a cypress pole covered with dead animals | |
Colonel Isaac N. Ebey suggested this name because of the towns view of the nearby, similarly-named mountain range | |
Named for a stone formation located on the south bank of the local river | |
Named after a small town in Lincolnshire, England | |
Named by William Penn for the city of the same name in Kent, England | |
One of the first settlers, Samuel Stone, named the city after his hometown in England which is only one letter different | |
Named after the American Revolutionary War hero, Francis Nash | |
Named after Stephen F. ____________, the so-called father of the state | |
Accounts differ but one story credits French-Canadian fur trappers who named the local river--which the city is named after--'the wooded river' | |
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