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Historic California: It's Colorful Names and How It Got Them

Historic California: It's Colorful Names and How It Got Them

Pryor, Alton

Paperback

General United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1495409899
ISBN13: 9781495409899
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 2 2014
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Place names can be serious or downright comical. Take the naming of the town of Moreno in Riverside County. The developer didn't want his name applied to the town fearing it would later become a slum. Town fathers used it anyway, translating the name Brown into Spanish Moreno. California place names are often descriptive of the activity that takes place in a town. A good example is the town of Carpenteria. When Portola made his march to Monterey, diarists took note of Indians carving a canoe. They called it Carpenteria, which means carpenter shop in Spanish.

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