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- From: gilmac@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Charles Robert Gilman)
- Subject: Re: "Classical" names
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
- References: <1992Dec23.010836.8830@netcom.com> <4807@moscom.com> <RYANR.92Dec30021702@lamar.ColoState.EDU> <1992Dec30.144541.6597@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:25:13 GMT
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- >Ever notice how many Upstate NY locations have names from Classical
- >antiquity, both persons and places; for example:
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- >Troy
- >Homer
- >Syracuse
- etc...
-
- The reason that so many upstate locals have names from antiquity according
- to my High School Latin Teacher (Mrs. Coleman) was that at the end of the
- Revolutionary War some of the war veterans were paid in land. Some of this
- land was in Upstate New York and in order for the US Government to assure
- that each vereran was paid a fair amount of land the land had to be surveyed.
- The man who surveyed the land was a Latin scholar - according to my Latin
- teacher. So he used the names he had learned from his Latin.
-
- I don't know how true the Latin Scholar part is but the part about portions
- of Upstate land being used to pay Revolutionary War Veterans is so that is where
- you can look to find out how much of this is true.
-
-
- Charles Gilman
- (East Syracuse -> Boston -> Fairborn, OH -> Troy, NY)
-