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heck, there's even a Brentwood in both the Bay Area and in L.A.
also, until recently, I was always mistaken that Stamford, CT was "Stanford" like the college
There are plenty of duplicate/near duplicate names in Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities area. Minnesota has:
Dayton
Plymouth
St. Louis Park
St. Cloud
Duluth
Detroit Lakes
Bloomington
Woodbury
Brooklyn Park
Brooklyn Center
Rochester
Minneapolis (there is a Minneapolis, KS)
Also, there are several similar names in the Twin Cities metro area, and it can become really confusing for someone who is not from here. We have:
The city of Corcoran (west metro) and the Corcoran neighborhood in Minneapolis
The city of Dayton (northwest metro) and Dayton's Bluff neighborhood in St. Paul
St. Paul, St. Paul Park, North St. Paul, South St. Paul, and West St. Paul (which is actually south of St. Paul).
Roseville and Rosemount
Maple Grove, Maplewood, and Maple Plain
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center
Spring Park and Spring Lake Park
Edina and Medina
Greenwood and Greenfield
Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, and Minnetrista
Shoreview and Shorewood
The Denver North carolina area was settled ca. 1770 and, because of it's location adjacent to a swampy area, was originally known as "Dry Pond". In 1873 "Dry Pond" was renamed "Denver" by D. Matt Thompson, the local school principal. Legend has it that in the early 1870's the people of "Dry Pond" were lobbying to persuade the railroads to route rail service through the area. Rail service held the promise of opportunity, prosperity and wealth. They worried that the name "Dry Pond" made the area sound unattractive and that it might hamper their chances with the railroads. The school principle, being respected for his education and learning, was asked to help choose a new name that would make the area sound more appealing and help improve their chances of obtaining rail service. It was 1873 and Colorado was then being considered for admission to the Union, so Mr. Thompson suggested renaming the area after the capital of Colorado, thus the name of Denver. In 1877 the town of Denver was officially incorporated in the state of North Carolina. Sadly, all their efforts were for naught as the railroads decided not to bring a rail line through the newly named town. Without the railroads the growth of the small town was stymied, the town became too poor to maintain even it's own streets. In 1971 the little town of Denver lost it's incorporated status when the State of North Carolina rescinded the charters of several inactive N.C. cities.
Holy crap! I didn't know their were that many Bellevues!
There is also Greenville NC and SC.
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