--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Arif Samad <fHoiberg@y...> wrote:

> There are always odd concentrations of names. To find
> odd names all over the United States, I urge you to
> look at the book "All over the Map" and its sequel.
> By the way, my college and nearby has a concentration
> of Roman (mixed with a few greek, I believe) names.
> There are Homer, Ithaca, Romulus, Ulysses, Rome etc,
> not to exclude Syracuse. I am wondering if Binghamton
> is a Roman name or not.
> By the way, the four postal cities of Queens are the
> cities of Queens before they joined. That happened
> before Queens ended up joining NYC.

The names of towns with in a state or part of a start can be a go
indication of who settled there. New York City was settled by the
duch giving us its orginal name New Amsterdam and the name of several
sections of it: Harlem and the Bronx (the name of a dutch family if I
am not mistaken).

New Jersey was oginally settled by the Sweds giveing us Swedsboro.
Later Sweds and other Nodic people settled in Minnisota give al sorts
of Nordic names. (Including the Minnisota Vikings) :)

-Andrew