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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
8
A survey of how American states got their names tracing to English royalty French terms islands and native words. Virginia honors Elizabeth I while New Hampshire and Georgia echo English and royal connections. Florida Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island Maryland New Jersey Pennsylvania and others derive from rulers places or Indigenous terms.
A slice of dated snippets notes that no birds have teeth, Bands of Hope emerged in England around 1848, the British Museum houses 16 000 Bible copies, Dutch taxation on Christian names after the first, barracks space limits of 600 cubic feet per soldier, and Babylon is believed the first city to reach one million inhabitants.
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