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TABLE OF STATES AND TERRITORIES

xxv

NO. NAME OF STATE

DERIVATION OF NAME
DATE OF ADMIS- SION
BY WHOM SETTLED
FIRST SETTLE MENT
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
SQUARE MILES
POPULATION IN 1790
POPULATION IN 1920

1  DELAWARE

In honor of Lord Delaware

1787
Swedes

Christiania, near Wilmington

1638

21050

50,996

223,003

2  PENNSYLVANIA

Name given by Charles II, -- mean-   ing "Penn's woods

1787
English

Philadelphia

1683

45,215

434,373

8,720,017

3  NEW JERSEY

In honor of Sir George Carteret,   governor of the British island of   Jersey

1787
Dutch

Bergen

1617

7,815

184,139

3,155,900

4  GEORGIA

In honor of George II

1788
English

Savannah

1733

59,475

82,548

2,895,832

5  CONNECTICUT

From the Indian, -- "long river"

1788
English

Wethersfield

1634?

4,990

238,431

1,380,631

6  MASSACHUSETTS

From the Indian, -- "the great hills"  -- from the Blue Hills near Boston

1788
English

Plymouth

1620

8,315

378,717

3,852,356

7  MARYLAND

In honor of Queen Henrietta Maria,
  wife of Charles I

1788
English

St. Mary's

1634

12,210

319,728

1,449,661

8  SOUTH CAROLINA

In honor of Charles II; derived from
  Carolus, the Latin for Charles

1788
English

Old Charleston?

1670?

30,570

249,073

1,683,724

9  NEW HAMPSHIRE

Named by John Mason, in remem-
  brance of Hampshire, England

1788
English

Dover?

1627?

9,305

141,899

443,083

10 VIRGINIA

In honor of Queen Elizabeth, the
 Virgin Queen

1788
English

Jamestown

1607

42,450

748,308 including W.Va.

2,309,187

11 NEW YORK

In honor of the Duke of York, who
  became James II

1788
Dutch

Fort Orange (Albany)

1624

49,170

340,120

10,384,829

12 NORTH CAROLINA

In honor of Charles II; derived from
  Carolus, the Latin for Charles

1789
English

Albemarle.

1663?

52,250

393,751

2,559,123

13 RHODE ISLAND

Either from a fancied resemblance
  of the island of Rhode Island to
  the Isle of Rhodes in the Mediter-
  ranean, or from the Dutch Rood
  or Red Island

1790
English

Providence

1636

11250

69,110

604,397



xxvi

LEADING FACTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY

NO. NAME OF STATE

DERIVATION OF NAME
DATE OF ADMIS- SION
BY WHOM SETTLED
FIRST SETTLEMENT
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
SQUARE MILES
POPULA-TION IN 1790
POPULATION IN 1920

14 Vermont

From the French, -- "green moun-
  tains"

1791
English

Fort Dummer   (near Brattle-   borough)

1724

9,565

85,416

352,428

15 Kentucky

From the Indian, -- "at the head
  of a river"; or meaning, accord-
  ing to other authorities, the
  dark and bloody ground

1792
English

Harrodsburg

1774

40,400

73,077

2,416,630

16 Tennessee

From the Indian, -- "river of the
  big bend"

1796
English

Watauga

1769

42,050

35,791

2,337,885

17 Ohio

From the Indian, -- " beautiful,"
  or "beautiful river"

1803*
Americans

Marietta

1788

41,060

5,759,394

18 Louisiana

From the French, -- in honor of
  Louis XIV of France

1812
French

About 38 miles
  below New
  Orleans

1700

48,720

1,798,509

19 Indiana

From the word "Indian"

1816
French

Vincennes . . .

1702

36,350

2,930,390

20 Mississippi

From the Indian, -- "great and
  long river," or "father of wa-
  ters"

1817
French

Natchez

1716

46,810

1,790,618

21 Illinois

From the union of an Indian and a
  French word, -- "tribe of men"

1818
French

Cahokia

1682

56,650

6,485,280

22 Alabama

From the Indian, -- "a place of
  rest"

1819
French

Near Mobile
  Bay

1702

52,250

2,348,174

23 Maine

The main land

1820
English

Pemaquid

1625

33,040

96,540

768,014

24 Missouri

From the Indian, -- "muddy," or
  "muddy river"

1821
French

Fort Orleans
  (near Jefferson City)

1719

69,415

3,404,055

25 Arkansas

From the Indian kansas (smoky
  water) and the French arc (a
  bow)

1836
French

Little Rock

1690?

53,850

1,752,204

   *Recent authorities (see King's "History of Ohio" in The Commonwealth Series, and the article "Ohio" in the Encyclopædia Britannica) give the date of 1803 instead of 1802, the date usually given heretofore.


TABLE OF STATES AND TERRITORIES

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NO. NAME OF STATE

DERIVATION OF NAME
DATE OF ADMIS- SION
BY WHOM SETTLED
FIRST SETTLEMENT
DATE OF SETTLEMENT
SQUARE MILES
POPULA-TION IN 1790
POPULA-TION IN 1920

26 Michigan

From the Indian, -- "a weir or
  dam of twigs for catching fish"

1837
French

Mackinaw

1680?

58,915

3,668,412

27 Florida

From the Spanish pascua florida
  (flowery Easter), -- hence flow-
  ery," or "land of flowers"

1845
Spanish

St. Augustine

1565

58,680

968,471

28 Texas

Perhaps from an Indian word
  meaning "friends"

1845
French

Lavaca, on the
coast

1685

265,780

4,663,228

29 Iowa

The French form of an Indian
  word applied by the Sioux to
  the Gray-Snow Tribe, and
  meaning the "drowsy," or the
  "sleepy ones"

1846
Americans

Dubuque

1833?

56,025

2,404,021

30 Wisconsin

From the Indian, -- "wild or rush-
  ing river" (applied to the rapids
  of the Wisconsin)

1848
French

Green Bay

1669?

56,040

2,632,067

31 California

From the Spanish, -- the name
  first occurs in a Spanish work
  of fiction (1510); it was there
  given to an imaginary island
  abounding in gold

1850
Spanish

San Diego

1769

158,360

3,426,861

32 Minnesota

From the Indian, -- " cloudy," or
  "whitish water"

1838
Americans

Fort Snelling.

1819

83,365

2,387,125

33 Oregon

Either from the Indian, "river of
  the West," or from the Spanish,
  wild marjoram," which grows
  there in great abundance

1859
Americans

Astoria

1811

96,030

783,389

34 Kansas

From the Indian, -- " smoky water"

1861
Americans

Atchison?

1854

82,080

1,769,257

35 West Virginia

From Virginia.

1863
English

24,780

included
  in 1790
  in Va.

1,463,701

36 Nevada

From the Spanish sierra ne-
  vada (snowy mountain ridge),
   -- "snowy"

1864
Americans

Genoa, at the
  base of the
  Sierras

1850

110,700

77,407



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LEADING FACTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY

NO. NAME OF STATE

DERIVATION OF NAME
DATE OF ADMIS- SION
BY WHOM SETTLED
FIRST SETTLE- MENT
DATE OF SETTLE- MENT
SQUARE MILES
POPULATION IN 1790
POPULA-
TION IN
1920

37 Nebraska

From the Indian, -- " water valley,"
  or "shallow river"

1867
Americans

Bellevue (near
  Omaha)

1847

77,510

1,296,372

38 Colorado

From the Spanish -- "red," or
  "colored" (referring to the color
  of the rocks)

1876
Americans

Denver?

1859?

103,925

939,629

39 North Dakota

From the Indian, -- "leagued or
  "allied" (referring to the con-
  federation of the Sioux tribes)

1889
English

Pembina

1812

70,795

645,680

40 South Dakota

From the Indian. (See above)

1889
Americans

Yankton?

1859?

77,650

636,547

41 Montana

From the Latin "mons" (a moun-
  tain), -- "the land of mountains"

1889
Americans

Helena?

1861?

146,080

548,889

42 Washington

In honor of George Washington

1889
Americans

Tumwater

1845

69,180

1,356,621

43 Idaho

From the Indian, -- " diadem of
  the mountains" 

1890
Americans

Pioneer City?

1862

84,800

431,866

44 Wyoming

From the Indian, -- "great plains"

1890
Americans

Cheyenne

1867

97,890

194,402

45 Utah

From the Indian, -- " mountain
  home"

1896
Americans

Salt Lake City

1847

84,970

449,396

46 Oklahoma

From the Indian, -- "red people"
  or "beautiful land

1907
Americans

Guthrie and Ok-

1889

70,057

2,028,283

47 New Mexico

Perhaps from the name of an
  Indian god of war

1912
Spanish

Santa Fé

1605?

122,580

360,350

48 Arizona

From the Indian, -- possibly, "few
  springs

1912
Spanish

Tucson

1776?

113,020

333,903


   Total population in 1790, 3,929,214; in 1890, 62,622,250; in 1920, 105,708,771 for the continental United States, or 117,857,509 if we include Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, and a number of small islands in the Pacific. More than half of the people of the continental United States live in cities of over 2500 population.

   NOTE. Authorities disagree on a number of the dates and places of settlement of states, and on some derivations from Indian languages. The Census Report of 1910 makes the area of the entire United States 3,690,822 sq. mi.; area of Alaska, 590,884 sq. mi.; the District of Columbia, 60 sq. mi.; the Panama Canal Zone, 448 sq. mi. The area of our island possessions is estimated as follows: Guam, 175 sq. mi.; Hawaii, 6449 sq. mi.; Porto Rico, 3600 sq. mi.; the Philippines, 127,85 3 sq. mi.; American Samoa, 77 sq. mi.; the Virgin Islands, 140 sq. mi.

   The interrogation point (?) after some names of places and dates of settlement indicates conflict of authorities or lack of positive information.


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