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(#39) Rhode Island
- 1790-05-29
Disputed, but it is believed to either be named for its resemblance to the Greek island of Rhodes or for a Dutch explorer's name, or from the Dutch expression Roodt Eylandt, meaning "Red Island," which describes the state's appearance in the autumn.
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(#42) Tennessee
- 1796-06-01
The meaning is unknown, but it came from the name of a Cherokee village in the area, Tanasi.
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(#29) New Hampshire
- 1788-06-21
Named, as you would imagine, after the old Hampshire, which is a county in England.
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(#45) Vermont
- 1791-03-04
Based, perhaps erroneously, on the French for "Green Mountain." Technically, as Douglas Harper notes, the French would be Montvert, as in Le Pont-de-Montvert.
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(#1) Alabama
- 1819-12-14
Pretty straightforwardly, Alabama was named for the Alabama Indian tribe that lived in the western part of the state and eastern Mississippi until the early 1800s. The meaning of the word "Alabama" is unclear, but it may come from a Choctaw word meaning "thicket-clearers" or "vegetation-gatherers."
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