re: What is your town named for?

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For instance I have no idea what Baton Rouge means and I couldn't find old Orleans on a map of the old world

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If you really cared, two second google search revels…

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Baton Rouge is French for "Red Stick." In 1699, French explorer Iberville was traveling up the Mississippi River and saw a bloodied, red pole on the shore. The "red stick" was marking the boundaries between hunting grounds of two Native American tribes. He named the location le bâton rouge, or the red stick.

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It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of the Kingdom of France at the time. His title came from the French city of Orléans. The French colony of Louisiana was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, following France's defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.

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Middlesex

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Donnie Darko

My childhood town name was my mother's maiden name. The family owned the land on which numerous family members built homes. The streets were named after my grandmother and her sisters. When I rode the school bus, every student on the bus was a cousin. After the neighboring community established a post office and the mail went there, our town gradually became known as part of the neighboring community.

Indian name - Wacca Pilatka (Cow Ford) for cattle crossing
White name - General Andrew Jackson

Confederate diplomat
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Tuscaloosa County was named after the Black Warrior Chief Tuskaloosa.

The town I live in is the German word for "hill".

A French monarch's hoe

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