History Of The Origin Of The Place Names

Author : Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520266196
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Place Names written by Erwin G. Gudde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.

Author : John Moss
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526722879
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From written by John Moss and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman placenames. Some hark back to the Vikings who invaded our shores and established settlements in the eighth and ninth centuries. Most began as simple descriptions of the location; some identified its founder, marked territorial limits, or gave tribal people a sense of their place in the grand scheme of things. Whatever their derivation, placenames are inextricably bound up in our history and they tell us a great deal about the place where we live.

Author : Tom Savage
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297590
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names written by Tom Savage and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin. Iowa’s place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State’s inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents; a retail business; an annual celebration or festival; a school; church, or cemetery; a building on the National Register of Historic Places; a zip-coded post office; or an association with a public recreation site. If a town’s name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name; if a name’s provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations. He also includes information about the state’s name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of ghost towns. The entries range from the counties of Adair to Wright and from the towns of Abingdon to Zwingle; from Iowa’s oldest town, Dubuque, starting as a mining camp in the 1780s and incorporated in 1841, to its newest, Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001. The imaginations and experiences of its citizens played a role in the naming of Iowa’s communities, as did the hopes of the huge influx of immigrants who settled the state in the 1800s. Tom Savage’s dictionary of place-names provides an appealing genealogical and historical background to today’s map of Iowa. “It is one of the beauties of Iowa that travel across the state brings a person into contact with so many wonderful names, some of which a traveler may understand immediately, but others may require a bit of investigation. Like the poet Stephen Vincent Benét, we have fallen in love with American names. They are part of our soul, be they family names, town names, or artifact names. We identify with them and are identified with them, and we cannot live without them. This book will help us learn more about them and integrate them into our beings.”—from the foreword by Loren N. Horton “Primghar, O’Brien County. Primghar was established by W. C. Green and James Roberts on November 8, 1872. The name of the town comes from the initials of the eight men who were instrumental in developing it. A short poem memorializes the men and their names: Pumphrey, the treasurer, drives the first nail; Roberts, the donor, is quick on his trail; Inman dips slyly his first letter in; McCormack adds M, which makes the full Prim; Green, thinking of groceries, gives them the G; Hayes drops them an H, without asking a fee; Albright, the joker, with his jokes all at par; Rerick brings up the rear and crowns all ‘Primghar.’ Primghar was incorporated on February 15, 1888.”

Author : Helen S. Carlson
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174031
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nevada Place Names written by Helen S. Carlson and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.

Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places written by Patrick Weston Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Ankeny McArthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oregon Geographic Names written by Lewis Ankeny McArthur and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.SL/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Henry Armstrong
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada written by George Henry Armstrong and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Origin and Meaning of Place Names in Canada" by George Henry Armstrong. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Origin of the Place Names in Nine Northwestern States written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Place Names written by Erwin Gustav Gudde and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of CALIFORNIA PLACE NAMES. This revised and expanded fourth edition features a wealth of description and history. Like its predecessors, this volume concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for cities, settlements, mountains, and streams, with updates to include new additions to the map.