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The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Frenchtown is an unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Darke County, Ohio, United States. The community lies at the intersection of State Route 185 with Burns and Mangen Roads, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the village of Versailles. [2]
In 2012, Gilles Demailly , the mayor of the French city Amiens, in the wake of several riots, called the northern part of his city a lawless zone, where one could no longer order a pizza or call for a doctor. The head of a local association said institutional violence had contributed to the tensions resulting in the no-go zone.
The French presence in the Ohio Valley was the result of French colonization of North America in present-day Pennsylvania.After Cartier and Champlain's expeditions, France succeeded in establishing relations with the Native American tribes and colonizing the future cities of Montreal and Quebec.
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World War I: the Ontario city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener [12] and the Saskatchewan town of Strassburg was renamed Strasbourg. [13] Cold War: the Ontario Stalin Township was renamed by Ontario legislature in 1986 to Hansen Township. [13] [14] In 2024, they renamed "americano" as "canadiano". United States: World War I:
A Southern California city just threw down the gauntlet against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s immigration policy. Huntington Beach, a city of around 200,000 in Orange County, passed a “non-sanctuary ...
As of the census of 2020, there were 1,590 people living in the neighborhood. There were 737 housing units. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 17.2% White, 74.3% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 3.9% from some other race, and 4.2% from two or more races. 4.2% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.