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Not quite the same, but the city of Washington, DC is named after George Washington, whose family hails from the town of Washington in northeast England. https
by Centigonal 3y ago
Not quite the same, but the city of Washington, DC is named after George Washington, whose family hails from the town of Washington in northeast England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Tyne_and_Wear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Tyne_and_Wear
- bdowling 3y agoCincinnati, Ohio is also named after George Washington, albeit indirectly. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/09/06/who-was-cincinnatus-was-he-namesake-cincinnati/65686117007/# https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/09/06/who-was-cin...
- timeon 3y agoI didn't know that George was Geordie.
- madcaptenor 3y agoBut Georgetown, part of Washington, isn’t named for him - it predates his rise. It’s named either for King George II or for its founders, two guys named George. I guess George was a very common name back then.
- samatman 3y agoGeorge was such a common name that we have a state of Georgia. Which isn't named after the country Georgia, or George III whom George Washington rebelled against, but rather George II, his grandfather.
- madcaptenor 3y agoI live in Georgia and this did not occur to me.