I get why there are US places named after European cities and holy places from the bible, but what's up with places like Lebanon, Thebes, and Memphis?
And you have Black Muricans claimed themselves descendant of Pharaohs
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>Lebanon
that is a holy place in the bible you goof
>Thebes
never heard of it
>Memphis
founded by Andrew Jackson, named because the Mississippi river was the American Nile.
>>825515
Isn't the oldest Egyptian kingdom from 3000 bc?
>>825511
There's a place in Michigan named Hell.
>>825586
There's a place in Michigan called Gaylord.
No really.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord,_Michigan
>>825586
Isn't that all of Michigan?
>>825705
I was in Gaylord earlier today.
I had something called "pasties" for lunch.
You see how this works?
There is a place in Kentucky called Beaver Bottom.
>>825573
Another two thousand or so years before that, I think? I could be wrong.
The presence of cities in the south with Biblical, Greco-Roman, Egyptian names or otherwise was an early attempt at drawing parallels between the South and other societies from antiquity which had practiced slaveholding.
>>825744
The presence of Greco-Roman names in Upstate New York (Syracuse, Utica, Troy, Ithaca, just to name a few) are from a completely different tradition, however.
>>825765
late 1800's or early 20th century right? I read briefly about it, shame I don't know more given im a New Yorker
>>825705
Gaylord is a first name, as well. It's pronounced more like "gaylerd."
>>825586
Also, hell I think is classified as a town, as it's too small to be called a city. I had am RA in my dorm, who came from there. The mayor changes like every week (I think you can buy the title for a day or so, just to say you're mayor of hell), but it's usually some guy who owns a business of significant size there, if I'm not mistaken.
>>825511
>>825511
>Baghdad, Kentucky
>Intercourse, Pennsylvania
>Kickapoo, Kansas
>Pee Pee, Ohio
>Tightwad, Missouri
>Y, Arkansas (not a typo, litterally "Y")
Chicken, Alaska is my favorite, tho.
>>825511
>Thebes, and Memphis
AYYY HOL UP
>>825515
There's so much wrong with this image
