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I just found that there is a small creek in South Jersey named for my family, since it ran through what used to be their farm. It's very small, a tributary of a tributary of Cooper River, but still, it's pretty cool. That branch of my family was named Nicholson, and the creek is named "Nicholson Branch" even though Nicholsons haven't lived there in over 100 years.
Have you found any lakes, rivers, streams, hills, mountains, islands, etc named for your family?
Let's leave out towns and buildings named for our families--that's much more common I think. And it could probably take up its own thread.
I want to know about natural land forms or bodies of water named for your family. Anyone?
Thompson Park, Mesa, and Arroyo in Southwestern Colorado and Northern New Mexico are named after my 3x great grandfather and his brother who were cattle ranchers there. Someone in another branch of my family has a county in MO named after him but perhaps that's not within the scope here.
...Have you found any lakes, rivers, streams, hills, mountains, islands, etc named for your family?
Let's leave out towns and buildings named for our families--that's much more common I think. And it could probably take up its own thread.
I want to know about natural land forms or bodies of water named for your family. Anyone?
There was a point of land on the south shore of the Bay of Quinte that was one time called Moon's Point on a map. It was a ferry dock, and the Moons were running the ferry at one time. When a bridge was built across the bay, the point was no longer of any consequence, and as far as I know has no name now.
The Moons also had their own graveyard on their land, but a house now sits on the Moons' remains. Thus, time has not been kind to their memory.
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.
I forgot I have one more. Jackson Mountain in Bedford County, Virginia is named after my 5x great grandfather who is buried there. We also have a Mount Jackson here in VA that's named after an unrelated guy, probably Andrew or Stonewall.
It is especially cool to have such a geographic connection within your home state.
Yeah, I have a road named after a branch of my family too, but that's why I thought we might have a separate thread of towns, roads, buildings, counties, etc named after families. Pretty interesting stuff...
My mother's family has the name Funderburk which is one of several Americanized versions of Von der Berg -- literally, "from the mountain."
There are both a mountain and a castle, on the Wupper River in northern Germany, from which this family name has been confirmed to originate.
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