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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:26:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ernest L Woodson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Queen cities (geotrivia) (fwd)



  Hello geographers, I lived in New Orleans in the
  60's and I never heard it called Queen city. I have
  heard of the Cincy one, but the real Queen City is
  Buffalo, which was and is calle Queen City of the Lakes.
       Ernie Woodson  University at Buffalo

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 02:36:50 CDT
> From: Joseph McCollum <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Queen cities (geotrivia) (fwd)
>
> My encyclopedia agrees that New Orleans is the Queen City of the
> Mississippi and Cincinnati is the Queen City of the West.  In 1850,
> Cincinnati and New Orleans had much larger populations than Detroit,
> Chicago, or St. Louis.  I don't know when they acquired the name "Queen
> City," but it would appear that "second largest" is not the explanation.
>
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