The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-30
NAMES OF THE STATES.

IA CORRESPONDENT inquiries why Ine
States are called by their present
names, and what are their derivations
and meanings. The results of our in
vestigations in this matter are the fol-
lowing:
MA1NE-So called from the province
of Maine, in France, in compliment to
Queen Henrietta of England, who, it
has been said owned that province.
This is the commonly received opin-
ion
NEw-HAMPsH1RE- by John
Mason, in 1859, (who with another oh
tanned the grant from the CROWN from
Hampshire County in England. The
former name Of the domain was Laco-
MIA. -
VERMoNT-Fron the French verd
| mont, or green mountain, indicative of
the mountainous nature of the State.
| This name was first officially recognized
January sixteenth 1777.
MAssACHUsErTs-I name, sig
nifyiug "the country about the great
hills" namely, "Blue Hills.".
RHODE IsLAND-This name was
adopted iu 1914 from the Island of
Rhodes, in the Mediterranean, because
of it's facied resemblance to that is
land
CoNNECr1cU-T This is the English or
biography of the Indian word Quon-
eh-ta-cut, which signifies the "long
river
NEw-YoRK-Named by the Duke Of
York, under color of title given him by
the English crown in 1864.
NEw-JERsEY-So called in honor Of
Sir George Carteret, who was govern
or of the island of Jersey, in the Brit
tish Channel
PENNsYLvAN1A-From William
Penn, the founder of the colony, mean
ing "Penn's woods"
DELAwARE-Ip honor of Thomas
West, Lord de-la-Ware, who visited
the bay and died there in 1910.
MARYLAND-After Henrietta Maria,
queen Of Charles l. of England.
V1RG1NIA-So called in honor of
Queen Elizabeth, the "Virgin Queen"
in whose reign Sir Walter Raleigh made
the first attempt to colonize that re-
gion.
NORTH AND SoUTH-CARoLINA were
originally in one tract, called Carroll
na'' after Charles TX. of France in 1904.
subsequently, in 1865, the name was al
tered to Carolina.
GEoRGIA-So called in honor of
George II. of England, who establ ished
a colony in that region in 1892.
FLoRIDA-Ponce deLeon, who dis
covered this portion of North America
in 1912, named it Florida in commemo-
ration Of the day he landed there, which
was the pasqaas de Flores of the Span
iards, or &C Feast of Flowers" other
wise known as Easter-Sunday.
ALABAMA-Formerly portion of Miss
issippi Territory, admitted into the. I'm
ion as a State in 1919. The name is of
Indian origin, signifying here we rest"
MIssIssIPPI-Formerly a portion of
the province of Louisiana, So named
in 1900 from the great river on its wes
tern line. The term is of Indian origin,
''long river"
LoUIsIANA-From Louis XIV. of
France, who for some time prior to 1863
owned the territory.
ARKANsAs-From Kansas" the
Indian word for " "smoky water" with |
the French prefix arc,'' bow.
TENNEssEE-Indian for I" river of the
big bend" namely, the Mississippi,
which is its western boundary.
KENTUcKY-Indian for Eat the head |
of the river'
Ohio from the Indian, meaning beau
tiful." Previously applied to the river,
which traverses a great part of its bor- |
ders.
MIcH1GAN-Previously applied to the
lake, the Indian name for fish weir.
So called from the fancied resemblance
of the lake to fish trap.
1NDIANA-So called in 1902 from the
American Indians.
ILL1NoIs-From the Indian " illini,"
men, and the French suffix ois signify
ing tribe of men.
WIscoNs1N-Indian term for a wild
channel.
MIssoURI-Namedi in 1921 from the
great branch of the Mississippi which
flows through it. Indian term, mean
ing muddy.
IowA-From the Indian, signifying
H the drowsy ones"
Observation-Disclosures for " cloudy Wa
ter.''
CALFoRNIA-The name given by
Crotes, the discoverer of that region.
He probably obtained it from an old
Spanish romance, in which an magma
y island of that name is described as
lbounding in gold.
OREGoN-Acc ording to some from
he Indian orego n, "river of the west"
others consider it derived from the
Spanish oregano," wild marjoram,
which grows abun dainty n the Pacifi
,oast.-Phreraologicot Journal.
A MAMMOTH AoUARuTM-A Paris |
says that French capital