They were still Europeans when they did the naming
Not necessarily. The majority of current US was colonised long after it became an independent state.
I’d argue the majority of English-based naming though are in the original 13 colonies and were named prior to 1776. Having lived on both coasts, it sure seems that is the case.
A lot of the other places are likely due to later immigrants building their own communities west of those colonies, and then there are a lot of coincidences as well.
And then there’s a ton of cities named after Bible references.
True. Not a ton of "New"s out west, but there is certainly a lot of repetition.
New Zealand did it with a whole ass country
The third one in this series is my favorite
Sometimes they don’t even put new in front of it. Illinois has a Milan, but they pronounce it My-lan. Smh
Bagdad, Arizona
No I did not misspell that.
There’s a Bagdad in Tasmania too, went past it when I was down there a while back (as well as Jericho and the Nile River).
Supposedly that city is named after a dad who ran a mining operation loading stuff out in bags. Ridiculous.
There’s also a Bagdad in Florida.
I’ve heard that but I highly doubt it. seems like a post 9/11 freedom fries kinda deal. When I was a kid I remember hearing that they named it that way because the founder had been to Baghdad and thought it the most beautiful desert city in the world, so he wanted to invoke that spirit. Doubt the spelling was nearly as standardized back then.
There are 29 cities in the US named Lebanon
I live in New England, USA. I was talking with a Brit about the British show The Archers. The Brit asked me whether I could tell which places were made up for the show and which were real. I told him that if I new a place in New England named something, it was probably a real place in the UK.
We even do it to ourselves
Indigenous PNWers call white folks bostoners because of how many of them originally came from Mass and named their new settlements after towns in Mass
York isn’t a city in England. It’s a city in Pennsylvania.
York is a mistake in Pennsylvania
(jk. I love my hometown. Sorta.)
Hey now. York isn’t THAT bad, even though a Google search for “York PA” has a video called “York Pennsylvania Sucks” as one of the top results…
delighted cackling
It’s originally a city in North Yorkshire, so the English aren’t all that original with their city names either.
