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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]>
Whoops - I gave the wrong title - it is North Carolina Gazetteer by William
Powell not Carolina Through Four Centuries. Sorry about that.
Russell
At 05:05 PM 12/6/2005, you wrote:
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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]>
>References: <[log in to unmask]>
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>Hi;
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>For North Carolina, there is a fun book called
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>"<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
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>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.
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>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
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>Carolina Through Four Centuries by William Stevens Powell that is a more
>academic and complete approach to place names ($42.50).
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>Cheers
>Russell Guy
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>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.
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>>mf
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>>Michael Fry
>>Government Documents & Maps
>>University of Maryland Libraries
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Russell Guy [log in to unmask]
Vice President http://www.omnimap.com/maps.htm
Omni Resources Tel.: 800-742-2677 (USA only)
International Map Specialists Tel.: 336-227-8300 (International)
P.O. Box 2096 Fax: 336-227-3748
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Burlington, NC 27216-2096 USA
Past President (1996), International Map Trade Association
Founding Member, Independent Travel Stores Association
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