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City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [2] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [3] are also believed to have economic value. [2]
In Beaumont, Texas, there is an Edison Museum, though Edison never visited there. [14] The Port Huron Museum, in Port Huron, Michigan, restored the original depot that Thomas Edison worked out of as a young news butcher. The depot has been named the Thomas Edison Depot Museum. [15]
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
A nickname was born. In 1986, KKDA started promoting a weekly series of blues concerts, inviting listeners from across North Texas to “Funky Town Fort Worth.” A nickname was born.
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
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Edison Middle Learning Center (closed 2018) [137] It was located in West Dallas and named after Thomas Edison. In 2018 it had scores in Texas state tests, considered unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), for five consecutive years in a row.
Edison, 3 places in Georgia, New Jersey, and Ohio – Thomas Edison [187] Edmeston, New York – Robert Edmeston (founder) [187] Edna, Kansas – Edna Gragery (child who lived there) [187] Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders) Edwards, Mississippi – Dick Edwards (Jackson hotelier) [187]