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Post by BillG on Sept 30, 2020 6:32:31 GMT -5
Gales Ferry, Connecticut (The village is named for the ferry operated by Roger Gale in 1759-1764, at the current site of a Yale University crew training camp.)
  
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Post by JesusIsTops on Sept 30, 2020 16:52:46 GMT -5
Hiddenite, NC Hiddenite was named for William Earl Hidden (1853–1918), a mineralogist sent to North Carolina by Thomas Edison to look for platinum. Hidden discovered the gem that came to be known as "hiddenite" in 1879 in mines nearby.
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Post by BillG on Oct 1, 2020 6:07:49 GMT -5
Irvine, California (Named after James Irvine, who was a prominent rancher there starting in 1864. By the 1940s the Irvine descendants started developing the area.)
 
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Post by catskillhiker on Oct 1, 2020 6:26:15 GMT -5
Jefferson (Mount) - 10,502' stratovolcano and mountain in Oregon named for President Thomas Jefferson. A to Z: Name anything geographic that is "eponymous" (named after a person real or mythic) anywhere in the world. Include the person that it is named after. Skipping "X" is allowed. Please copy and paste this paragraph into your reply so the next person to post knows the category.
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Post by BillG on Oct 2, 2020 5:14:27 GMT -5
Kyiv, Ukraine (The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders, around the year 500.)
 
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Post by catskillhiker on Oct 2, 2020 7:10:14 GMT -5
Levittown, New York - the first (1947–1951) of 7 suburban developments built by William J. Levitt & Sons. It was the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country.
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Post by JesusIsTops on Oct 2, 2020 18:18:44 GMT -5
Morristown, NJ - named for the popular governor, Lewis Morris, who championed land ownership rights for colonists.
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Post by BillG on Oct 3, 2020 5:31:39 GMT -5
North Carolina (named in honor of King Charles I of England who first formed the English colony, Carolus being Latin for "Charles")
 
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Post by catskillhiker on Oct 3, 2020 7:58:42 GMT -5
Ord River - named after Major General Sir Harry St. George Ord, a British governor of the Western Australia state (1867-1873). It is a 400 mile long river in the Western Australia state that flows north to the Timor Sea. It has two dams, built for irrigation and hydroelectric uses. A to Z: Name anything geographic that is "eponymous" (named after a person real or mythic) anywhere in the world. Include the person that it is named after. Skipping "X" is allowed. Please copy and paste this paragraph into your reply so the next person to post knows the category. |
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 3, 2020 21:35:10 GMT -5
Queen Louise Land
Queen Louise Land is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.
 
Surrounded by ice masses, Queen Louise Land is clearly delimited. It is an extensive area made up of several very large and numerous small nunataks. Its western boundary is the Greenland ice sheet and its eastern limits are the massive Storstrommen and L. Bistrup Brae glaciers. Kap Aage Bertelsen is a small headland at the confluence of the large Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ glaciers in the east. Dryasdal is a valley seasonally covered with Dryas octopetala flowers. The area of Queen Louise Land is uninhabited.
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Post by catskillhiker on Oct 4, 2020 7:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by BillG on Oct 5, 2020 10:01:43 GMT -5
Saint-Étienne, France (Named after Saint Stephen, the city first appears in the historical record in the Middle Ages as Saint-Étienne de Furan)
 
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Post by catskillhiker on Oct 5, 2020 10:47:00 GMT -5
Theodore Roosevelt National Park - named for President Theodore Roosevelt; in North Dakota A to Z: Name anything geographic that is "eponymous" (named after a person real or mythic) anywhere in the world. Include the person that it is named after. Skipping "X" is allowed. Please copy and paste this paragraph into your reply so the next person to post knows the category.
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Post by BillG on Oct 6, 2020 5:40:25 GMT -5
Uriah, Alabama (named after James Uriah Blacksher, one of the founders in the 1870s)
  
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