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Old 11-01-2006, 03:16 PM   #1
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One of the first counties of Pennsylvania was called Bucks County, named after Buckinghamshire (Bucks) in England, where the Penn's family seat was, and from whence many of the first settlers came.
I'm from Bucks originally.

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It is believed the name "Leicester" is derived from the words castra (camp) of the Ligore, meaning dwellers on the 'River Legro' (an early name for the River Soar). In the early tenth century it was recorded as Ligeraceaster = "the town of the Ligor people". The Domesday book later recorded it as Ledecestre.
We're pretty old.
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Old 11-01-2006, 03:58 PM   #2
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Fort Collins. After a fort that was named for a Col. William Collins. It was pretty lame as far as "cowboys and indians" mythos goes -- I think there was only one small skirmish in the area. But the Overland stage route went through here, so there were bandits and stuff. Originally, Laporte, which is a tiny town north of here, was the population center of the area, but it lost the title.
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Old 11-01-2006, 03:58 PM   #3
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When looking at a map, Nether Providence is below Providence, now named Media.
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