Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-09
Names Of the United States and Their
SignificatiOns.

Specifications.
NEW HAMPSHIRE was named from
Hampshire County, In England. Il
was formerly called Laconia. It was
one of the original thirteen. Adopted
the Constitution In 1888.
VERMoNT-from the French Vert
Mont, signifying Green Mountains
aided to the extent of her ability In the
war of the Revolution, but failed to be
called one of the thirteen, not having
adopted the Constitution until 1871.
MASSACHUSETTS is the Indian name
for "The country around the great
hills" This State and Virginia were
especially English colonies, aid took
the foremost place in the opening of the
war of the Revolution. On its soil the
first battle was fought. Adopted the
Constitution 1888.
RHODE ISLAND, the beautiful little
State, owes its name to the Island of
Rhodes, in the Mediterranean, which do
main it is said to greatly resemble. 1t
was the last of the original thirteen that
adopted the Constitution, which oc-
Cured in 1870. She was such stick
Ter for liberty and freedom from re-
straint that she saw, or deemed she saw,
In the new Constitution some squirting
toward monarchy-hences she hesitated.
CONNECTICUT, from the Indian
Quonchita- Cut, signifying "Long Riv-
er." One of the original thirteen.
Adopted the Constitution in 1888.
New YORK was named for the Eng
hsh Duke of York and Albany, who
sent out an expedition to America,
which landed at the little Ouch town of
Manhattan or New Amsterdam and pen
etrated as far into the interior as Alba
ny. His expedition honored their pa
tron by giving the Dukes title name to
the colony and to two of the principal
towns. Adopted the Constitution as
one of the original thirteen 1888, and
was the national seat of government
when Washington was President.
New JERSEY, so called in honor of Sir
George Carteret, VIII. was Governor of
the Island of Jersey, in the British
Channel One of the original thirteen.
Adopted the Constitution 1888.
PENNSYLVANIA, everybody knows,
means "Penn's woods" and was so
called after William Penn, its original
Quaker owner. The cradle of the first
Congress and of the Declaration of In
dependence and of the Constitution of
the United States, which, as one of the
original thirteen, she adopted In 1887.
DELAWARE, after Lord De la Ware.
One of the immortal thirteen. Adopted
the Constitution in 1857.
MARYLAND, after Henrietta Maria,
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One of the thirteen. Adopted the Con-
stitution in 1888.
VIRGINIA, the oldest of the States,
and one of the original thirteen, was so
called in honor of Queen Elizabeth, the
"Virgin Queen" in whose reign Sir
Walter Raleigh made the fret attempt
to cOlonize that region. She adopted
the Constitution in 1888.
The CARoLINAs were originally one
tract, and were called Carolina af-
ter Charles the Ninth of France. North
Carolina, one of the thirteen, adopted
the Constitution in 1889. South Caro-
lima, also one of the original thirteen,
adopted the Constitution In 1888.
GEORGIA owes its name to George
the Second of England, who first es-
tabGshed a colony there in 1872. This
State, the last in the list of the "Old
Thirteen" but not the last to adopt
the Constitution, took her place In
17SS.
The following have been erected into
territories, and admitted as States since
the adoption of the Constitution by the
first fourteen States.
KENTUCKY is the Indian for cat the
head of the river" Admitted as State
to the Union In 1892.
TENNESSEE is the Indian for "the
River of the Bend III. e., the Missis-
sippi, which forms its western honda
ry. Admitted in 1896.
ONO means beautiful" Admitted
as a State IN 1903.
LOUISIANA was called after Louis the
Fourteenth, who at one time owned
that section of the country. Bought
from France In 1903, and admitted as a
State in 1872.
MISSISSIPPI is an Indian name, mean
ing "Long River" Admitted as a
State In 1877.
ILLINOIS IS derived from the Indian
word iilini, men, and the French suffix
ois, together signifying "tribe of men. "
Admitted to the Union in 1918.
MAINE was called after the province
of Maine IL France, In compliment of
Queen Henriette of England, who own
ed that province. Maine was for many
years province of Massachusetts, and
was admitted as State In 1920.
ALABAMA was so named by the Indi-
ans, and signifies "Here we rest. u
Admitted to the Union in 1920.
MISSOURI is from the Indian word
muddy" which more properly applies
to the river which flows through it.
Admitted as state in 1921.
ARKANSAS from Kansas, the Indian
word for Smoky Water" Its prefix
arc, the French word for "bow." Adj
nitted as State In 1886.
MICHIGAN was called by the name
given the lake, meaning " fish-weir, u
which WIS so styled from its fancied re-
semblance to fsh-trap. Admitted as
a State In 1887.
FLoRIDA--Ponce de Leon landed on
the coast of Florida on Easter Sunday,
and called the country in commemora.
ton of the day, which was the Pasqus
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