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Old 07-31-2008, 05:41 PM
 
Location: City of North Las Vegas, NV
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Don't be so sure to point out that an El Paso can only be found in TX!
FYI, in case you didn't know, there's another El Paso:

El Paso, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 07-31-2008, 05:44 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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There are a lot of El Paso's..

El Paso County, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 07-31-2008, 06:22 PM
 
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Don' forget El Paso in Las Gran Canarias! The Grand Canary Islands. My wife is from Spain and has pointed that out to me before.
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Old 07-31-2008, 06:38 PM
 
Location: DENVER
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I think there's one in Ohio and they even have an el paso hi
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Old 07-31-2008, 06:56 PM
 
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El Paso, Illinois...a small farming community in the southern part of the state.
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Old 07-31-2008, 06:58 PM
 
Location: City of North Las Vegas, NV
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Too many for my taste. I propose that one of them at least should be translated to "The Pass"
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Old 07-31-2008, 07:42 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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I think El Paso TX should go back to its original name.

El Paso is at the far western tip of Texas, where New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet in a harsh desert environment around the slopes of Mount Franklin on the Rio Grande, which has often been compared to the Nile. As they approached the Rio Grande from the south, Spaniards in the sixteenth century viewed two mountain ranges rising out of the desert with a deep chasm between. This site they named El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the North), the future location of two border cities—Ciudad Juárez on the south or right bank of the Rio Grande, and El Paso, Texas, on the opposite side of the river. Since the sixteenth century the pass has been a continental crossroads; a north-south route along a historic camino real prevailed during the Spanish and Mexican periods, but traffic shifted to an east-west axis in the years following 1848, when the Rio Grande became an international boundary.

Handbook of Texas Online - EL PASO, TX
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Old 07-31-2008, 07:50 PM
 
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Let's keep it El Paso, Texas but thanks for that bit of history for the new viewers. 1845 (when the state was admitted to the union) ...that is a long time but 1598 makes it historic. If only the city and the state would embrace that event!
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Old 08-01-2008, 07:23 PM
 
Location: Las Cruces, NM
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Wasn't El Paso originally called Franklin, before it actually got platted as a city?
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Old 08-01-2008, 07:32 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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You know Lonewolf I was looking for evidence of that. I thought there was another name, but I could not find any. If you locate any info online some place please post the link.
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