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Blackfalds is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is located along Highway 2A 13.5 km north of Red Deer. The town's name, Waghorn (for Walter Waghorn, post master), changed in 1903 to Blackfalds, after Blackfalds, a Scottish hamlet. [8]
Pages in category "List of place names in the United States by language of origin" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( August 2016 ) This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term.
Although the origin of many place names is now forgotten, it is often possible to establish likely meanings through consideration of early forms of the name. [1] Some general conclusions about the nature of place names, and the way in which place names change, can be made and are examined below.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester, Birmingham and Rochester). Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II).
Guyandotte is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot.) Marion County (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent) Montcalm (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War). Ronceverte (Name is derived from two words meaning ...
Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers. There are some common suffixes. Brae in Scottish means "hillside" or "river-bank". Burgh, alternatively spelled Burg, means "city" or "town".