Danville is named after the steamship that plied the Petit Jean in those early years when the river was navigable.
Hmm. Didn't know that.
Danville is named after the steamship that plied the Petit Jean in those early years when the river was navigable.
Jesse Lee Reno was a Union general during the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of South Mountain. (or so says Wiki). Here's an image of the man. Now it's just a gambling town... sad, really.
Depending on where you are down south Raleigh is pronounced RAHL-eh.
Mountain View, California. I think the name is pretty self-explanatory.![]()
South Kingstown. (Village of Wakefield and West Kingstown) No clue. South of North Kingstown, I know that.
But it was purchased from the Narragansett Indians and establishd in 1657.
It is the name of numerous cities, the largest of which are Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine, in the United States. The original name is of the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, United Kingdom.
Wikipedia said:The settlement came to be known as Thorne's Mills, and later, Thorne's Hill, from which its current name is derived. (Thorne would later commit suicide in 1848, after a serious wheat market crash.)
Ainsworth is named for Captain James E. Ainsworth, chief construction engineer of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, who arrived at the town site in June 1882. Pioneers were pushing west, setting up shops and businesses. Many also were filing for homesteads on the freeland, claiming 160 acres under provisions that certain improvements be made. Ainsworth was incorporated as a village on December 2, 1883