NAMES ON THE LAND: AMERICA'S TOPONYMS

The principal reason for my doing this project was simply because I wanted to do it! I’ve long been interested in toponomy - the science of placenames - and until now, with the priviledge of retirement, was afforded the time to do it. It was mentally laborious, time consuming, ( a guesstimated 10,000 hours over a 6-year period), highly educational and greatly rewarding.

I have always had an interest in dissecting things, analyzing them and then restructuring the information gathered into a...