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quoms:

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something cool i found out while looking through the cities on that atomic bomb map is that canton, ohio is named after guangzhou, china (but the old time version of the name, obviously):

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\n\nBezaleel Wells, the surveyor who divided the land of the town, named it after Canton (a traditional name for Guangzhou), China. The name was a memorial to a trader named John O'Donnell, whom Wells admired. O'Donnell had named his Maryland plantation after the Chinese city, as he had been the first person to transport goods from there to Baltimore. [x]

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probably one of relatively few cities in the united states named after another place that\u2019s not in europe

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