I'm going to unlurk from the list to comment on this one, as it involves
the history of my hometown, the Bronx...
The Bronx was named after Jonas Bronck, who, contrary to popular belief,
was not Dutch, but was actually a Swedish ship captain. Bronck and his
family were the first European settlers in what is today the Mott Haven area
of the South Bronx, landing there in 1639. Harlem was originally spelled
Haarlem, and was named after the Dutch town of the same name. The name
Brooklyn, as well, was a derivation of the name given it by the Dutch West
India Company, Breuckelen. The names were changed after the British
pushed out the Dutch in the 1660s.
New York City is full of streets and neighborhoods that still have their
original Dutch names - van Cortlandt, Gansevoort, New Utrecht, Spuyten
Duyvil, just to name a few.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: <andrew@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Remember Nederland??
> --- 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.
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> 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).
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> 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) :)
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> -Andrew
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