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Get on Maine's level. They have Mexico, Poland (home of Poland Springs!), China, Peru, Norway, Sweden, Denmark... that's not even delving into another dozen or
by jdwithit 2y ago
Get on Maine's level. They have Mexico, Poland (home of Poland Springs!), China, Peru, Norway, Sweden, Denmark... that's not even delving into another dozen or two towns named for foreign cities rather than nations. The history of why the heck this happened is interesting [0]
0: https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2015-09-24/why-are-so-many-maine-towns-named-after-foreign-countries-and-cities https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2015-09-24/why-are-so-many...
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoExactly the same situation in Central Texas. Many German, Swedish, Czech enclaves resulting in towns with names like New Sweden. Indiana has a bit of this as well.
- 1123581321 2y agoI watched the 2024 eclipse from a curiously named Brazil, Indiana. Besides the name, a couple oddities were that nobody was there to watch the eclipse (we had an entire campground well in the totality to ourselves for $50) and someone from Chicago moved there to sell excellent deep dish pizza.
- pugets 2y agoMissouri has a lot of those names, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Missouri_places_named_after_non-U.S._places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Missouri_places_named_...