Who's Ray - What does the name of your town mean?

[Pie]

From here:

Lawrence Township was founded in 1697 and was known as Maidenhead, named by the early Quaker settlers after a Thames River village later incorporated into the City of London. Originally Maidenhead was part of Burlington County and the state of West Jersey. In 1714, the Township became part of the newly-constituted Hunterdon County.

The Township was legally incorporated through an act of the State legislature in 1798. In 1816, the municipality was renamed Lawrence, after Captain James Lawrence, commander of the frigate Chesapeake and one of the naval heroes of the War of 1812. In 1838, Mercer County was formed from parts of Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Burlington Counties. The Township's boundaries and geographic relationships have remained the same since that time.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Bird-in-Hand and Blue Ball in Pennsylvania are named after nearby inns.

Other towns near Blue Ball and Bird-in-Hand of course include Intercourse and Paradise.

[wolf]

Lawrence Township was founded in 1697 and was known as Maidenhead

They must have had to rename the township because of an eventual lack of virgins. It is New Jersey, after all.

[Pie]

Originally Posted by wolf

They must have had to rename the township because of an eventual lack of virgins. It is New Jersey, after all.

I also lived here when I was in first and second grade. Yep, I was a virgin. And this quality persisted for quite a few years afterwards, I might add. :p

[Ibby]

Tai as in Taiwan, and Bei as in North. Literally, Taiwan [island] North.

[Sundae]

One of the first counties of Pennsylvania was called Bucks County, named after Buckinghamshire (Bucks) in England, where the Penn's family seat was, and from whence many of the first settlers came.

I'm from Bucks originally.

Wikipedia

It is believed the name "Leicester" is derived from the words castra (camp) of the Ligore, meaning dwellers on the 'River Legro' (an early name for the River Soar). In the early tenth century it was recorded as Ligeraceaster = "the town of the Ligor people". The Domesday book later recorded it as Ledecestre.

We're pretty old.

[mrnoodle]

Fort Collins. After a fort that was named for a Col. William Collins. It was pretty lame as far as "cowboys and indians" mythos goes -- I think there was only one small skirmish in the area. But the Overland stage route went through here, so there were bandits and stuff. Originally, Laporte, which is a tiny town north of here, was the population center of the area, but it lost the title.

[Spexxvet]

When looking at a map, Nether Providence is below Providence, now named Media.