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Old 10-19-2011, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Fountain Square, Indianapolis
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Can you name the 50 most populous cities in the United States in the year 1850? | Online Games & Trivia by Sporcle


You have 8 minutes to guess the largest fifty cities in 1850, it's fun.

No cheating, I got 28/50.

Some very interesting misses on my part but I also kicked myself afterwards too.

Do it, post your results. No cheats!
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Old 10-19-2011, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Very Interesting! I got 23/50.

Spring Gardens, Pennsylvania!!??
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Old 10-19-2011, 11:01 AM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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28 for me too plus SF if its records hadn't been destroyed.
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Old 10-19-2011, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Pasadena, CA
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23/50 - All those cities that are now part of Philly make it really tough.
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Old 10-19-2011, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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I got 32 (some by accident) Plus SF. There were two or three that I should have gotten, but the rest I was just completely stomped by. People from the NE should do well in this. so many towns from NY, PA and MA.

From the top 20 I got only two wrong 11 and 20 (both PA towns)
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Old 10-19-2011, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Oahu
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Got 28, plus SF. The only "big ones" I missed were Mobile, Portland, and Norfolk.
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Old 10-19-2011, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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31/50

All I really missed was the now small towns. I was really surprised to see Lafayette, LA.
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Old 10-19-2011, 12:09 PM
 
Location: The City
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23/50 - All those cities that are now part of Philly make it really tough.

I'm from Philly and I missed three of the Philly parts
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Old 10-19-2011, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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I'm from Philly and I missed three of the Philly parts
ha ha!!! You suck
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Old 10-19-2011, 12:20 PM
 
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31/50

All I really missed was the now small towns. I was really surprised to see Lafayette, LA.
Yeah, me too...Didn't realize it was the second largest city in Louisiana at that time. It's always suprising how rural the South was back then... You'd think Baton Rouge would have been sizable by that period, but outside of New Orleans which was huge, Charleston, Savannah, and a few places in Virginia, there weren't many sizable towns let alone cities in 1850 in the region.

I got 32/50---I missed most of the towns that were annexed by the large Northeastern cities.
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