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Re: City name origins

#4862 04/23/2002 7:41 PM

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Beloit, Wisconsin was originally Turtle, but the inhabitants soon decided that Turtle wasn't uptown enough for their tastes so they decided to call it Belotte from the French word for beautiful. They thought about it for a while and decided that Belotte sounded a little too rough so they decided to spell it Beloit and pronounced it to rhyme with Detroit.

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