{"id":14346,"date":"2013-11-19T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2021-11-21T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T23:03:06","slug":"whole-other-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/whole-other-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Named Like a Whole Other Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What if I said that I could drive from Atlanta to Detroit, or Cleveland to Santa Fe, or Miami to Memphis in an hour and a half? So how about driving from Jacksonville to Buffalo in an hour? No, I didn&#8217;t say <em>fly<\/em>, I said <em>drive<\/em>. My apologies in advance to the international audience that may not have an intuitive understanding of distance in the United States. I&#8217;ll simply state that road times like these would have to be dismissed immediately as completely insane on their surface. A motorist would serve jail time for attempting any of these suggestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s if one tried to accomplish those feats between cities most recognizable for those names. However I was intentionally vague as I&#8217;m sure the astute 12MC audience already guessed. I&#8217;m referring to towns by those same names in Texas, or as they&#8217;re fond of saying, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traveltexas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It&#8217;s Like a Whole Other Country<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Explanation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1EemdqqYkOKwucdVY120QZ1YK2rQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed the anomaly as I researched the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14336\">DeKalb<\/a> article. Texas had a DeKalb so I took a closer look. Then I spotted Atlanta, Boston and Pittsburg (a near match, missing only the final &#8220;h&#8221; at the end) all within close proximity of DeKalb. So that prompted a wider search for additional Texas towns sharing names with other places in the United States more famous and recognizable. I found several.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This likely had to do with the immense size of Texas. Traditionally each post office within a single state had to get a different name. That might not be a problem in smaller states or those more sparsely settled. However, Texas had 1,490 post offices including historic locations in the latest listing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/geonames.usgs.gov\/pls\/gnispublic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geographic Names Information System<\/a>. Imagine trying to find unique names for every one of those settlements, and in fact that became a recurring problem as townsites sprouted on the frontier in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All of these places exist in Texas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally I turned to one of my favorite sources, the <a href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Handbook of Texas Online<\/a> from the Texas State Historical Society for more information. Some towns drew inspiration from better-known namesakes while other chose their names completely independently. I culled historical origins from the Handbook and present them below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Atlanta<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/texasmarkers\/4725689472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1370\/4725689472_3bee0ac91c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Bessie Coleman, Waxahachie, Texas Historical Marker. Photo by Nicolas Henderson; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>&#8220;Born in Atlanta, Texas&#8221; &#8212; Bessie Coleman Marker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An 1871 Texas and Pacific Railway town was settled by a bunch of people from Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Boston<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The man who opened the first store in the area was W. J. Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buffalo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bison still roamed the range when the railroad arrived in 1872. I&#8217;ll pass on the &#8220;bison aren&#8217;t buffalo&#8221; conversation this time. So, it became buffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cleveland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1878 a local land owner, Charles Lander Cleveland, said the East and West Texas Railway had use his name if they wanted a chunk of his land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Columbus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nakrnsm\/4512740586\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2762\/4512740586_0027bc203b_b.jpg\" alt=\"Oaks Theater, 715 Walnut St, Columbus, Texas 0410101325. Photo by Patrick Feller; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Columbus Opry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone who once lived in Columbus, Ohio proposed the name for use in Texas (which in turn derived originally from Christopher Columbus of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Detroit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Town founders needed a name in 1887 and the local railway agent once lived in Detroit. Problem solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jacksonville<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The town was named for two early settlers &#8212; William Jackson and Jackson Smith, one a doctor and the other a blacksmith. The weird first-name, last-name nexus must have made the town seem inevitable I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memphis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/6839321394\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7056\/6839321394_b76f99ba6a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Western Motel, Memphis, Texas. Scanned by Boston Public Library; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Western Motel, Memphis, Texas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This one was worth <a href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/hgm05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quoting directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;For a time the new town was without a name. Several suggestions were submitted to federal postal authorities but with negative results. Finally, as the story goes, Reverend Brice, while in Austin, happened to see a letter addressed by accident to Memphis, Texas, rather than Tennessee, with the notation &#8216;no such town in Texas.&#8217; The name was submitted and accepted, and a post office was established\u2026&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The name in turn derived originally from the Memphis in Egypt, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Miami<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I buy the Handbook explanation. Allegedly a Native American word for &#8220;sweetheart?&#8221; Really? Even though there was an actual Miami tribe one state over in Oklahoma?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pittsburg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jstephenconn\/4226455741\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4036\/4226455741_e38082d7af_b.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburg Water Tower. Photo by J. Stephen Conn; (CC BY-NC 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Pittsburg Water Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An early settler, William Harrison Pitts, came to the area in 1855. The source didn&#8217;t explain why founders chose Pittsburg rather than the more expected Pittsburgh with an h.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reno<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It was originally the name of a switching station placed along the Texas and Pacific Railway circa 1876. The town came later and adopted the name. I couldn&#8217;t find an explanation for the switching station named Reno, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Santa Fe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In recognition of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, constructed through the area in 1877.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Variations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I found other theme like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Colorado: Denver City; Breckenridge and Colorado City<\/li><li>My little corner of Northern Virginia: Arlington; Clarendon; Crystal City; Gainesville; Fredericksburg and Mount Vernon<\/li><li>International: Paris; London; Palestine; Victoria and Edinburg (again with the missing &#8220;h&#8221; What&#8217;s with Texas hating burghs?)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder how many other coincidental variations exist in the vast Texas town list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I said that I could drive from Atlanta to Detroit, or Cleveland to Santa Fe, or Miami to Memphis in an hour and a half? 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