Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — Stolen Place Names. [ARTICLE]

Stolen Place Names.

There are many- stolen place names outside Lancashire, the most flagrant instance of- theft being afforded 45y Etruria, in Staffordshire,'which annexed this name because Wedgwood’s copies of Etruscan pottery were manufactured there. Then In Wales vte find Bethesdd and Hebron, jmd in Scotland Joppa, Alexandria and Portpbello. entia, off the Irish coast, is named after Spanish town, but this is hardly a case of theft, as the Spaniards themselves bestowed the name on the island. Aspatria, in Cumberland, looks like a name filched from Italy, but IS in reality a corruption of Gospatrick.