California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names by Erwin G. Gudde, William Bright

California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names

Erwin G. Gudde, William Bright

495 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative slow-paced
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Absco, a Southern Pacific station, was coined in the 1920s from the name of the American Beet Sugar Company, which had a factory in Oxnard.Pochea is an Indian village site in Riverside County, said to mean "where the rabbit went in."Siskiyou was t...

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