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May 9, 2013 · May 9, 2013 Emily Upton. Today I found out how the city of Seattle got its name. Seattle is one of the only major cities in the United States to be named after a Native American chief. In his native language, Seattle was pronounced “see-ahlsh” but it was difficult for English speakers to pronounce, so they anglicized it to the version that ...
Aug 17, 2023 · The Origin of The Name New Orleans. The city of New Orleans was founded in the year 1718. Like most good stories, this one starts at the beginning. New Orleans was founded in 1718 by a French Canadian colonizer, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. He was on a constant quest for land to explore and subsequently secure for the French Navy (of ...
Mar 12, 2018 · New Hampshire was named after the county of Hampshire in England. The English county of Hampshire was named after an old English word “Hamtun.”. Hamtun can roughly be translated to mean “village-town.”. The name Hamtun underwent gradual evolution to become Hampshire. The original city of Hampshire, where New Hampshire got its name from ...
Apr 4, 2019 · On January 30, 1946, the Daily Herald reported, “the merchants of the Alderwood-Edmonds and Seattle-Everett Crossroads selected Lynnwood as the official name of this fast-growing business district at the meeting of the Central Commercial Club Monday night.”. Today the “crossroads” are 196 th St. SW and Highway 99.
Rome is the capital city of Italy. Building started in 753 BC and the Romans developed a story to explain how Rome was built. They believed that twin boys, Romulus and Remus, were taken from their mother and left by the river Tiber to starve. It is thought that a mother wolf found the babies and looked after them until they were old enough to ...
Jan 25, 2023 · How the Marathon Got its Name: An Origin Rooted in Battle and Myth. When one thinks of a marathon, one likely imagines a race run by many people, with bystanders on the sidelines armed with encouragement, towels, and water bottles. They likely imagine numbers plastered across fronts and a distinct finish line that the winner would break through ...
Jul 5, 2019 · The city’s initial name is Old English or Anglo Saxon and is thought to date back to the arrival of the Anglo Saxons in this part of the country. This could be anywhere between the 6th and the ...
