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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: where geog. features get their names
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi;
For North Carolina, there is a fun book called
"<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs//exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878086820/qid=1133905801/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl14/104-8709095-8610362?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>Talking
Turkey: And Other Stories of North Carolina's Oddly Named Places by Jamie
Perry Cox, which discusses the "why" of many unusual place names in
NC. $14.95.
There is also the
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=William%20Stevens%20Powell&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank//exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807818461/qid=1133906145/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8709095-8610362?v=glance&s=books>North
Carolina Through Four Centuries by William Stevens Powell that is a more
academic and complete approach to place names ($42.50).
Cheers
Russell Guy
At 04:35 PM 12/6/2005, you wrote:
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>Subject: where geog. features get their names
>Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005
>From: Michael Fry <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: University of Maryland Libraries
>To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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>Anybody know of a definitive resource that would tell me not *what*
>something is called, but *why*?
>My patron wants to know why Big Butt, a summit in western North Carolina
>(Buncombe County), is so
>named, but the gazetteers we've looked at (i.e., Columbia, Omni and the
>GNIS) say only *what* the
>standard name is, not why it is. The US Board on Geographic Names has a
>"Decisions on geographic
>names in the United States" publication, but most of the entries seem to
>lack this kind of info (and
>we're missing the relevant edition, anyway).
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>I've since directed her to local resources, including libraries,
>historical societies, Forest
>Service offices, guide and tourist books, etc., but don't know if anything
>will pan out. I've also
>called the BGN's domestic names committee--they're checking their library.
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>Is this sort of info lost to history, or does somebody document such
>things on a systematic basis?
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>Thanks very much for any advice you can provide.
>
>mf
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>Michael Fry
>Government Documents & Maps
>University of Maryland Libraries
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