Timeline for How did US Dartmouth get named after the British officer school?
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| Jan 24, 2022 at 18:32 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Of course the Encyclopedia Brittanica would point to a Englishman… | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 16:39 | comment | added | Alex Kruckman | On the evidence: This is explained in the Wikipedia articles I linked to in my answer. If you don't trust Wikipedia, see here, for example: britannica.com/topic/Dartmouth-College | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | E. Rei | Yeah and there are 10 Exeters in the US. It's not an uncommon thing for US places to be named after UK ones. Not sure what the evidence is for it being named after the Earl of Dartmouth rather than the actual place called Dartmouth though. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 15:38 | comment | added | Chris Leary | Hartford, Litchfield, New London, ... , the list goes on in Connecticut. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 11:33 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | There is also a New Plymouth in New Zealand. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 9:48 | history | answered | E. Rei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |