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It isn’t even the same fight, and I haven’t been the only one. Two different, unrelated points have been beleaguered: neighborhoods’ names and local terms of endearment for them versus a municipal system of government called boroughs. I get both. I never should have chimed in on a tangent on a post that’s years old. My bad.
What do you feel about calling the boroughs of New Orleans wards? Is that similar to the official borough title? There's plenty of examples of boroughs in different metros around the country, not just Charleston. Philly comes to mind.
What do you feel about calling the boroughs of New Orleans wards? Is that similar to the official borough title? There's plenty of examples of boroughs in different metros around the country, not just Charleston. Philly comes to mind.
Technically, Charleston was formed as a city of wards. Boroughs are never mentioned in the attached. The ending of the attached seems to me to imply that once annexation off the peninsula began, the ward system was dissolved for municipal governing purposes. I recognize that Charleston’s neighborhoods with ‘borough’ in their names are referred to as the boroughs. I recognize that this is a local thing. But we don’t think of or call South of Broad, Eastside, Westside, Hampton Park or Wagener Terrace boroughs. We call them and think of them as neighborhoods. That said, there was no harm done when the OP asked the borough name and not the neighborhood name. This is the last I’ll say about this, even if anyone has anything further to say to me about it. https://www.ccpl.org/wards-charleston-1783%E2%80%931960
Technically, Charleston was formed as a city of wards. Boroughs are never mentioned in the attached. The ending of the attached seems to me to imply that once annexation off the peninsula began, the ward system was dissolved for municipal governing purposes. I recognize that Charleston’s neighborhoods with ‘borough’ in their names are referred to as the boroughs. I recognize that this is a local thing. But we don’t think of or call South of Broad, Eastside, Westside, Hampton Park or Wagener Terrace boroughs. We call them and think of them as neighborhoods. That said, there was no harm done when the OP asked the borough name and not the neighborhood name. This is the last I’ll say about this, even if anyone has anything further to say to me about it. https://www.ccpl.org/wards-charleston-1783%E2%80%931960
Interesting. I'm always down to learn a little history about Chucktown. Do you know when approx they switched from wards to neighborhoods?
Interesting. I'm always down to learn a little history about Chucktown. Do you know when approx they switched from wards to neighborhoods?
Per the attached article:
“1960: The city begins annexing land beyond the peninsula, and the city’s representative districts enter a new era of flux.”
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