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Originally Posted by TracySam
I think these examples are so cool. Whenever I see any geographical feature with a name on it, I always wonder who it was named after, and whether anyone around the area even remembers.
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No geographical feature named for my family, just a few streets.
But, since I see you are from NJ--there is a stream that is a Superfund site that runs along Teterboro Airport in Bergen County. It is called Berry's Creek. I knew of the creek for a long time because of documents having to do with the airport, but only in the past couple of years did I realize who Berry was.
John Berry was wealthy planter in Barbados who was lured by the British crown in the 17th century to move to what is now Bergen County and establish landholdings there. He brought the first slaves into the area and called the area that is now Hackensack "New Barbados". He was became a colonial governor of NJ.
Now there's a badly polluted creek bearing his name.