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Another one was Flour City (which Mpls took from Rochester NY in the 1800s when Mpls flour mills outproduced Rochester's) Rochester then changed theirs to Flower City, after landscape nurseries that flourished there.
I change my mind about "Mill City".....it sounds kinda cool to me now. I also like the name "Millers" as it applies to milling, whether it be steel mills or grain mills like in Minneapolis. Between the Millers and Lakers, Minneapolis seemed to miss out on a couple of opportunities to name their teams something a tad more relevant than, say, the "Wild".
There is just something about the nickname "Queen City" that is cool to me. I didn't know that Cincinnati was also called that. Whould you happen to know the origin of the name?
There's an entire wikipedia page on the term. It's apparently pretty common.....sort of like how several college sports teams are named "Tigers". Queen City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is just something about the nickname "Queen City" that is cool to me. I didn't know that Cincinnati was also called that. Whould you happen to know the origin of the name?
In his poem "Catawba Wine" that hailed Cincinnati's (and more specifically Mount Adams') wineries, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called the city "the Queen of the West."
The poem is engraved in stone on Fountain Square; Cincinnati's tallest building features a tiara, which is a reference to the Queen City; and one of the explanations for Dayton's "Gem City" nickname was that Dayton is the gem in the queen's crown.
And this Song of the Vine,
This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.
I really don't like "Space City" for Houston. Because it clearly wasn't called that before the space programs of the 1960's! lol There has to be a better name floating around out there....ah, The Magnolia City.
I agree. The Magnolia City or Bayou City should be used more than Space City IMO.
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