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  2. Cape Charles, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Cape Charles, located close to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was founded in 1884 as a planned community by railroad and ferry interests.In 1883, William Lawrence Scott became president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company (NYP&N), and purchased three plantations comprising approximately 2,509 acres from the heirs of former Virginia Governor ...

  3. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Anceney and Anceney Bridge, Montana, named after Charles Leon Ancen(n)ey (Anxionnaz)(1826-1895) Belle Creek community (and Belle Creek river) Cascade County ("waterfall") Choteau; Chouteau County, named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., an American fur trader of French Canadian origin; Dupuyer; Froid ("Cold") Havre (named after Le Havre, France)

  4. Cape Charles (headland) - Wikipedia

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    Cape Charles was named in honor of Charles I of England, the second son of King James I and his eventual successor to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Cape Henry , which forms the southern side of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, and Cape Charles are collectively known as the Virginia Capes .

  5. Charles I of England - Wikipedia

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    Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.

  6. List of places in the United States named after royalty

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    [1] Georgia - King George II of Great Britain. Louisiana - King Louis XIV of France. Maryland - Queen Henrietta Maria of England. New York - James, Duke of York. Later became King James II of England. [2] North Carolina - King Charles IX of France. Name retained by British colonists in honor of King Charles I of England.

  7. Cape Henry - Wikipedia

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    Cape Henry was named on April 26, 1607, in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the elder of two sons of King James I of England to survive to the age of 18 and heir-apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of England (later united in 1707 with neighboring Scotland as the Kingdom of Great Britain), by an expedition of the London Company branch of the proprietary Virginia Company headed by ...

  8. Cape - Wikipedia

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    A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth-century wars. Rich noblemen and elite warriors of the Aztec Empire would wear a tilmàtli ; a Mesoamerican cloak/cape used as a symbol of their upper status.

  9. Chaperon (headgear) - Wikipedia

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    Chaperon is a diminutive of chape, which derives, like the English cap, cape and cope, from the Late Latin cappa, which already could mean cap, cape or hood ().. The tail of the hood, often quite long, was called the tippit [2] or liripipe in English, and liripipe or cornette in French.