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Amsterdam, New Jersey; Arthur Kill [a]; Barnegat: Barnegat Bay, Barnegat Branch Trail, Barnegat Inlet, Barnegat Light, New Jersey, Barnegat Lighthouse State Park ...
Amsterdam Island, Spitsbergen; Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean; Bear Island, Norway; Bedloe's Island, now Liberty Island, New York-NJ, USA; Block Island ...
Less concentrated groupings of foreign place names are Norwegian names throughout Minnesota, Czech names in southeast Texas, and Dutch names in the Hudson Valley of New York. The Hudson Valley locations are so named because the area was a Dutch colony before it became an English colony. But not all the immigrants concentrated so heavily.
From a Dutch family name. The first Blauvelt in America was a peasant farmer who worked on Kiliaen van Rensselaer's estate cultivating tobacco in 1638. The same Dutch family name lies at the origin of Bluefields Bay in Jamaica and Bluefields in Nicaragua – after Abraham Blauvelt, Dutch trader, explorer, pirate and privateer.
The name Caven is an anglicisation of the Dutch word Kewan, [20] which in turn was a "Batavianized" [21] derivative of an Algonquian word meaning peninsula. [22] The area is now a part of Liberty State Park in Jersey City , after having served as a large railyard, train station, and ferry terminal for many years.
The king and queen of the Netherlands spent the second day of their U.S. tour Tuesday visiting Savannah, Georgia's oldest city that is both a historic gem and a growing powerhouse in global trade.
A place in Georgia, USA with a "bab" cock. Baby: A village in Poland where babysitting is popular. It is also the site of a little uh-oh in 2011. Also, there are six other Babys in Poland as well. Bachelor's Cove: A hamlet in Newfoundland. Bacon: A county in Georgia, USA, next to Coffee. Bacon Level
This list of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Georgia also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable.