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Saturday, 27 December 2008

Rejected Town Names

Posted on 00:21 by blogger
Some proposed and rejected names for Maine towns:
  • Sunbury (Bangor)
  • Reach (Bath)
  • North Wood (Corinna)
  • Sharon (Durham)
  • Sumner (Ellsworth)
  • Russia (Greenwood)
  • Fluvanna (Guilford)
  • Columbia (Hebron)
  • Winchester (Islesboro)
  • China (Rumford)
  • Independence (South Thomaston)
  • Sparta (Woodstock)
  • "Hertford, Woodstock or Lisbon," or Williamston (Hartford)
  • New Hancock, or Gilman (Sumner)
  • Knoxbury, or Knoxburgh (Prospect)
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