An Epic Account of the Naming of ‘Just About Everything in America’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.01.08 | 11:23 AM ET
It’s all in Names on the Land, George Rippey Stewart’s soon-to-be-reissued 1945 book about how America’s “creeks and valleys, rivers and mountains, streets and schools, towns and cities, counties and states, the country and continent itself” were named. In Slate, Matt Weiland calls the tome “a masterpiece of American writing and American history.” Among the tidbits he highlights: “The original name proposed for the state that became New Jersey was Albania.”
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* What’s in a Place Name?
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.
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