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Manhattan was first mapped during a 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company. [15] Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany. [16]
There were various sites for fishing and planting established by the Lenape throughout Manhattan. [11] The name Manhattan originated from the Lenape's language, Munsee, manaháhtaan (where manah-means "gather", -aht-means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we ...
Texas: 37 Richard Nixon California [c] 38 Gerald Ford Michigan: 39 Jimmy Carter Georgia: 40 Ronald Reagan California: 41 George H. W. Bush Texas: 42 Bill Clinton Arkansas: 43 George W. Bush Texas: 44 Barack Obama Illinois: 45, 47 Donald Trump New York [d] [e] 46 Joe Biden Delaware
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Carnegie Hall, New York City. Even New Yorkers can be split on how to pronounce this world-renowned concert venue in midtown Manhattan, named after steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) [156] Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President; Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) [156]
In 1664, New York was named in honor of the Duke of York (later King James II of England). [37] James's elder brother, King Charles II, appointed the Duke as proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland, including the city of New Amsterdam, when the Kingdom of England seized it from Dutch control.
This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.