Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-10-14
WHAT'S IN SOME GEO
GRAPHIC NAMES

Names OF such women as Joan Of
Arc and Edith CaveIl are written In
delibly upon the hearts Of people for
all ages. Generous and well deserved
tributes have been paid lastingly 20
others, but so much have their names
become a part Of our dany lives that
many who frequently pronounce them
are unmindful Of their significance.
Cities. rivers, provinces and islands
bear the names OF women OF distine>
ton.
Lady Franklin island, near Baffin r.
land, in the arctic circle, Is named for
the wife Of Sir John Franklin, the ex-
plorer who lost his life in first finding
the Northwest passage through the
great ice of the polar regions. There
IS perhaps no more beautiful story OF
untiring devotion. and persistent eff
fort than that of Lady Jane Frank
lin who, after the failure of many at
tempts, fitted out a ship which, though
It brought back to her the definite
proof of the loss of her husbands ex-
petition, established his achievement
of his object,
The picturesque stories Of the lit
tie Indian princess Pocahontas al
ways will hold loved place In the
hearts of American childhood. Coun-
ties in Iowa and West Virginia, vii
lagos in Bond county, Illinois, and
Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, and
In the Rocky mountains In Alberta,
Canada, are named for her.
Queen Victoria's name is wrapped
around the British empire from the
capital of British Columbia, over the
heart of Africa at Victoria NyanZa and
Victoria falls, and beyond into the
Queensland and Victoria In far-away
Australia.
America, too@in its early days Of
colonization paid its tribute to the
queens of the mother country and to
the gracious ladies who braved the
dangers of untrfed shores with their
lords. Elizabeth, cape In Maine,
and Elizabeth City In Virginia, as
we'll as the state itself, together with
some % ~other places in the United
States, bear the name Of the clever,
witty, versatile. coquette, who took the
dissatisfaction England and whipped
1t into a place as a world power.
Elizabeth Carteret, the charming
wife of one of the aristocratic propri-
ators Of New Jersey, shares with
Queen Elizabeth some Of the honors
of the name. EliZahethtown, in North
ICarolina, and Elizabeth City, in New
Jersey, are named for her.
The name of Clara Barton is perpet-
uated in Barton county, Kansas, and
the wife of George Washington, who
before her first marriage was Martha
cambridge, is honored in the town OF
cambridge, Tenn.
Maryland and Virginia are fairly be
spattered with the names OF the queens
and princesses Of England. the state
name of the FORMER being taken
from that of Queen Henrietta Maria,
the wife of Charles /. Then. too, there
are Annapolis, named for the wife OF
James I of England; and Anne Arun-
del and Caroline counties, in Mary
land, called after the wives of two OF
the Calverts; Fluvanna, county and
the North Anna river In Virginia,
named for Queen Anne and Charlotte,
Amelia and Caroline counties and
Charlottesville, the home Of the Uni
versity of Virginia, all called for the
wives and daughters of English kings.
J Marietta, O., vas named for the
naughty, charming Antoinette. The
Aleutian Islands, off the coast OF
Alaska, when that territory was Rus
sian, were known as Catherine archi-
pelago, in honor of Catherine the
Great. Ekaterinburg was named for
the Russian Catherine who ruled Rus
Isla through her husband, Peter the
Great.