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(Message started by: sandie99 on Feb 20^th, 2005, 7:51am)

Title: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by sandie99 on Feb 20^th, 2005, 7:51am

Last night I was looking at usacitylink.com and found lots of interesting city names. But my fave was Finland! Yep, it's in Minnesota... ;;D

This discovery reminds me of one conversation me, my best friend and one american fellow had back in 1997 in Brighton, UK. He asked us where we were from. And we said, from Finland. His next question seemed so stupid to us at the time: What state that is?
But that doesn't seem that stupid right now.... ;;D

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by sandie99 on Feb 20^th, 2005, 7:52am

http://finlandmn.usl.myareaguide.com/

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by floridian on Feb 20^th, 2005, 8:07am

There is a radio show here from Minnesota (Prairie Home Companion) that features regular jokes about the Norwegians and Swedes.

Different regions of the US were opened to immigration at different times, and were settled by large groups from various European countries. Boston and Chicago had lots of Irish, Minnesota and central Canada had lots of Scandinavians, St. Louis and Milwaukee had lots of Germans, Louisiana had the Cajuns (French/Quebecois) etc etc. Today, the patterns are often more subtle and dispersed, but they are still there in the landscape.

Title: yea and
Post by rumplestiltskin on Feb 20^th, 2005, 11:17am

I once captured this bug...I'll bet it was 15 years old or something like that and I went over to that other place and then I came back and then it was like I felt good about something that my mother said the day before when we were in church where the preacher went like this and all the people listened and now look at what I'm wearing. Do you believe that?

Wow finland. That's cool.

love
den

Title: Re: yea and
Post by Jimmy_B on Feb 20^th, 2005, 11:24am

on 02/20/05 at 11:17:29, rumplestiltskin wrote:

You just blew my mind....ow. ;;D

Jimmy

Title: Re: yea and
Post by vietvet2tours on Feb 20^th, 2005, 11:29am

on 02/20/05 at 11:17:29, rumplestiltskin wrote:

oofda is all i can say about that.

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Tim_Z on Feb 20^th, 2005, 11:34am

Minnesota is nice.

Yeah, and what Den said.

Tim

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Lizzie2 on Feb 20^th, 2005, 12:16pm

Haha well Philadelphia started off with sections for the Irish, the Italians, and the Germans. However...don't forget that Philadelphia was also the original capital of the United States...so I think we had your mix. My grandma was born in December of 1922 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. It was still German back then, apparently. I wasn't around to know! But now...you won't be finding Germans in Germantown any longer! That's not a racist comment in any way...that's just the way things have changed.

Chinatowns popped up in US cities as Chinese began to immigrate here.

All of the "New" city names were after European names. They added the "New" because it was in the New World. New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire..ya follow? :)

In PA though...not far from here, we sure have some *interesting* names brought to us by the Pennsylvania Dutch (of German descent)... Intercourse, PA; Blue Ball, PA; and I know there are a whole lot more, but for some reason I'm drawing a blank at the moment!

I love the history of names. :)

Lizzie :)

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by jimbo on Feb 20^th, 2005, 12:18pm

My favorite town in minnesota is called Nimrod! It's pretty close to Oink Joint Road.

Seeya,

Jimbo

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Jimmy_B on Feb 20^th, 2005, 1:09pm

In Pennsylvania (besides what Lizzie mentioned) ya got:

Beaverdale. Pa
Scalp Level, Pa
Stalker, Pa
Bird-in-Hand, Pa
Jugtown, Pa. &
Squirrel Hill, Pa.

But my favorite place is

Buttzville, NJ

Jimmy

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by sandie99 on Feb 20^th, 2005, 3:13pm

And there were 2 cities called Horton and one Hortonville... ;;D

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Langa on Feb 20^th, 2005, 3:36pm

Quote:

Bird-in-Hand, Pa

Jimmy, you forgot Intercourse, PA. First time I saw it I thought I was reading it wrong...lol

Langa

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by ckelly181 on Feb 20^th, 2005, 6:02pm

Oh people, you are forgetting the best named Minnesota cities....

Climax and Embarrass.

(Hey, they should hook up with Intercourse!)

Chris, a Minnesotan.

;;D

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Tim_Z on Feb 20^th, 2005, 6:33pm

How about Fertile Mn.?

Fertile girl dies in climax. Supposedly this was printed in a paper up here. Before my time though.

Tim

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Frank_W on Feb 20^th, 2005, 8:26pm

In Tennessee, some of the more colorful names:

Lebanon
Shiloh
Antioch

And then there's:
Buck Snort and last but not least:
Crackers Neck

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by Charlie on Feb 20^th, 2005, 11:16pm

there was a town here named Onoville .....now under water since they built the dam. Not much of a loss really.

My town is 35,000 and 15,000 of us are Swedes and Norwegians.

Charlie

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by sandie99 on Feb 21^st, 2005, 1:18am

on 02/20/05 at 23:16:02, Charlie wrote:

My town is 35,000 and 15,000 of us are Swedes and Norwegians.

wow... you must know your scandinavians then, Charlie... ;;D Now you'd need just few finns, danes and folkes from Iceland that there'd be the whole scandinavia! ;;D

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by floridian on Feb 21^st, 2005, 9:59am

Favorite place name is: http://www.city.medicine-hat.ab.ca/Banners/bannermain2.jpg

I was feeling really ill, so I put on my medicine hat. Now I feel much better.

Title: Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
Post by tommyD on Feb 21^st, 2005, 4:31pm

My favorite government agency, the U.S. Geologic Survey, has a searchable web site listing every place name shown on any topographic map anywhere in the US and its territorities, plus some foreigh countries.

Go to: http://geonames.usgs.gov/ and search for your name - dollars to donuts, there's some village or town or river or stream or hill or swamp or bog or ditch or some damned thing somewhere that's named after you. And there's a link to a topogrphic map image so you can see just where whatever it is that's named after you is.

It's a really cook map geek sort of a thing.

By the way, we have not one but two small villages called "Climax" here in PA, but they're a ways off from Intercourse.

-tommyD