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In Cincinnati there is a section called Over the Rhein. A canal once flowed through the city just north of downtown and, Cinci being a predominently German town, the canal was dubbed "The Rhein". Over the Rhein is mostly the slums of Cincinnati, but they're trying to improve it.
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are boston and lynn very close? Is lynn one of those town swallowed up into greater boston.. and lost?
Lynn lives! On U.S. Route 1A which hugs the coastline.
Just south of Salem and north of Boston through the cities of Chelsea, Revere and Saugus, all on US 1A.
wow.
GO RED SOX ... Save Fenway Park
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A friend of mine in Spain originally comes from a small village in the north called La Hija de Dios (God's Daughter), which I think is rather a beautiful name for a village... Unfortunately, he doesn't know anything about why it is called like that... 
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Perhaps because She lived there, once.
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In Baltimore there is an area, not too far southeast of downtown, which is an old working-class neighborhood dating back to the 1860's called "Pigtown." It takes its name from the fact that when it was new and for quite a while thereafter, hogs used to be unloaded from railcars at one end of the neighborhood and driven through the main street to the slaughterhouse at the other end. The current residents are very proud of the name.
At the other end of the economic scale is a small enclave in NW Baltimore, not far from my office, dating to the last half of the 18th century called Dickeyville. It was restored in the 1920s and is now a collection of old and quaint houses. A friend of ours who rented a house there for a while insisted on calling it Peckerville.
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Michigan has a Clinton County and a town named Chelsea. It also has both a Brooklyn and a Flushing, and I understand that the capital city is named after a Lansing, New York. There were many immigrants from NY at one time.
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In Cincinnati there is a section called Over the Rhein
Insert Wizard of Oz pun here. WHere Is TEd?
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named after a Lansing, New York
Lansing, NY is just north of Ithaca (where the Odyssey ended). Lansing is one of the nine towns that make up Tompkins County. Within the Town of Lansing is the Village of South Lansing. If you're driving north out of Ithaca up the east side of Cayuga Lake you get to a sign the welcomes you to Lansing. Drive a little farther north and you see a sign welcoming you to South Lansing.
Go a little farther up the lake and you will reach Aurora, NY. This is about dead center in the state. About three hours west, near Buffalo, NY is the Town of East Aurora, NY.
Homer, NY, BTW, is about a half hour northeast of Ithaca.
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Clinton is most likely to honor De Witt Clinton-- gov. of NY-- and the man who planned to dig the ditch-- the erie canal-- it help open the near west (ohio, and all of the Great Lakes) to NY -- which gave traders two markets-- more competition, and often better prices-- and since the route wasn't upstream all the way--(as it on the mississippi,) and was shorter--by half! So they could get good from outside markets, and sell their furs, and farm products to a burgeoning new city. It also provided a westward route for people who wanted to leave NY.
In less than 20 years or so, it was replaced by railways-- but for a short while is was a major factor in NY growth-- not just NYC-- but the whole state benefited from gaining access to the near west--I guess maybe Michigan gained too, and got an increase in population, and better trade goods, and maybe an improved economy-- but that didn't get taught in NY civic classes! Clinton is one of a hand full of gov. who's names got pressed into memory.
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Troy is up near Schenectady, NY
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