| Origin Story | City |
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| Named after a Kansas Territorial Governor by a land speculator trying to gain the favor of said governor | |
| Named after the daughter of the 5th United States Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. | |
| Named for an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada | |
| This city and its fort of the same name are named after an American fur trader of French-Canadian origins | |
| A shortened version of 'Western and Atlantic Railroad' which ran through the city | |
| A variation on the name of the Spanish discoverer of the 'New World' | |
| Named in honor of America's 3rd president | |
| Named for a stone formation located on the south bank of the local river | |
| Named in honor of King James II of England whose former title was the Duke of ____________ | |
| A Native American word meaning 'to dig good potatoes' | |
| In 1841, Father Lucien Galtier, minister to Catholic French Canadians, named his chapel after his favorite saint; the city was named after this chapel | |
| Named after Stephen F. ____________, the so-called father of the state | |
| Named by William Penn for the city of the same name in Kent, England | |
| Named after a local gold prospector | |
| Named after the Spanish discoverer of the 'New World' | |
| Two brothers went to a New York town of the same name to sell nonexistant plots in this floodplain and the swindled buyers named the marsh after their hometown | |
| In the native language, it means 'sheltered bay' | |
| Named after the American Revolutionary War hero, Francis Nash | |
| William Byrd II named this city after an English town which is presently a part of London | |
| Formerly 'Rumford,' this city was renamed to reflect newfound harmony with the neighboring city of 'Bow' | |
| Named after its state's name which is derived from a Choctaw word meaning 'red people' | |
| Simply the name of the state plus a Greek suffix meaning 'city' | |
| Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, named this city for a term meaning God's activity on earth | |
| Originally named 'Calhoun' after South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, this city changed its name to its current, more generic moniker in 1832 when the senator fell out of favor | |
| Named after a German chancellor in effort to attract German investment | |
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