List of places in the United States named after places in England

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A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England as a result of English settlers and explorers. Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester/Birmingham/Rochester). Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, New York was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York.[1][2]

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  1. ^ "The New Jersey Colony". MrNussbaum.com. http://www.mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/printables/njcolony.pdf. Retrieved May 10, 2011. 
  2. ^ "KINGSTON Discover 300 Years of New York History DUTCH COLONIES". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm. Retrieved May 10, 2011. 
  3. ^ Lewis, W. David (2011), "Birmingham Iron and Steel Companies", Encyclopedia of Alabama (Auburn University), http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1597, retrieved January 10, 2012 .
  4. ^ "History", Leeds, Alabama website. Retrieved 2001-Jan-11.
  5. ^ "History of Woodstock, AL", Town of Woodstock, Alabama website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11.
  6. ^ http://nonprofitfacts.com/AL/Sheffield-Iron-Workers-Joint-Apprenticeship-Fund-Local-477.html#b
  7. ^ a b c Gudde, Erwin and Bright, William. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press, 2004.
  8. ^ "History", City of Exeter website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11.
  9. ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 101. ISBN 9781884995149. 
  10. ^ "Avon Facts in Brief", Avon, Connecticut website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11.
  11. ^ "Bolton History Summary", Bolton, Connecticut website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11.
  12. ^ Norton, Milo Leon. "Bristol", The Connecticut magazine: an illustrated monthly, Volume 5. The Connecticut Magazine Co., 1899, p.4
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Eno, Joel N. "Connecticut Towns in the Order of their Establishment; with the Origin of Their Names", Connecticut State register and manual. Connecticut Secretary of State, Hartford, 1917, pp.422–427.
  14. ^ "About Colchester", Colchester, Connecticut website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11.
  15. ^ "City of Hartford History", City of Hartford website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-12.
  16. ^ Capace, Nancy. "Dictionary of Places", Encyclopedia of Delaware, North American Book Dist LLC, 2001, p.331.
  17. ^ Morris, Allen Covington and Morris, Joan Perry. Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs. Pineapple Press Inc, 1995, p.198.
  18. ^ Morris, Allen Covington and Morris, Joan Perry. Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs. Pineapple Press Inc, 1995, p.256.
  19. ^ "A Bit of a Chester History Lesson", City of Chester website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-12.
  20. ^ Savage, Tom. A dictionary of Iowa place-names. University of Iowa Press, 2007.
  21. ^ Rennick, Robert M. (1988), Kentucky Place Names (reprint ed.), University Press of Kentucky, p. 25, ISBN 9780813101798 .
  22. ^ Named after Bromley, the birthplace of Charles Collins, a pharmacist who laid out the town in Kentucky in 1848. Rennick 1988, p. 36.
  23. ^ Possibly named after Dover, believed to be the birthplace of the founder's father. Rennick 1988, p. 84.
  24. ^ Rennick 1988, p. 178.
  25. ^ Manchester's founders envisioned it would become a large industrial city like Manchester, England.Rennick 1988, pp. 186–87.
  26. ^ Believed to have been originally named after Willoughby, England, from where the ancestors of the area's settler's were thought to have emigrated; the name "Williba" was supposedly a corruption adopted by its first postmaster to fit the name on a rubber stamp. Rennick 1988, p. 320.
  27. ^ Chadbourne, Ava Harriet (1955), Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns, 5, B. Wheelwright, p. 73 .
  28. ^ Named after Old Boothby in Lincolnshire. Chadbourne 1955, p. 71.
  29. ^ Chadbourne 1955, p. 72.
  30. ^ Chadbourne 1955, p. 70.
  31. ^ Chadbourne 1955, p. 85.
  32. ^ Named after the manor of Kittery Court, located on Kittery Point in Kingswear, the birthplace of founder Alexander Shapleigh. Chadbourne 1955, p. 47.
  33. ^ Coolidge, Austin J.; John B. Mansfield (1859). A History and Description of New England. Boston, Massachusetts. pp. 292–299. http://books.google.com/books?id=OcoMAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA9&ots=cUndZkVSIF&dq=coolidge%20mansfield%20history%20description%20new%20england%201859&pg=PA292#v=onepage&q&f=false. .
  34. ^ Chadbourne 1955, p. 49.
  35. ^ Chadbourne 1955, p. 3.
  36. ^ Upham, Warren (2001). Minnesota Place Names: a geographical encyclopedia. Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 256. 
  37. ^ George Rippey Stewart (1970), American place-names: a concise and selective dictionary for the continental United States of America, Oxford University Press 
  38. ^ Wick, Douglas A., "Leeds (Benson County)", North Dakota Place Names, http://www.webfamilytree.com/North_Dakota_Place_Names/L/leeds_%28benson_county%29.htm, retrieved January 10, 2012  (named for Leeds in Yorkshire).
  39. ^ History – 1908 to Today, City of Bexley, Ohio, http://www.bexley.org/about/history?start=1, retrieved January 10, 2012  ("The name came from the parish housing the Kilbourne family estate in Kent, England.").
  40. ^ McSpadden, Donna Casity, "Chelsea", Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture (Oklahoma Historical Society), http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CH013.html, retrieved January 10, 2012  ("Railroad official Charles Peach named the site for his native Chelsea, England.").
  41. ^ Wilson, Linda D., "Manchester", Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture (Oklahoma Historical Society), http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MA009.html, retrieved January 10, 2012  ("Historian George Shirk asserts that the town was named for Manchester, England, while Charles Gould claims it refers to a former hometown in the East.").
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