German immigrants gave their new homes names such as Heidelberg, Alsace, Berlin, German and Germany, Munster, Tulpehocken and Upper Tulpehocken, and Weisenberg. The melting-pot nature of Penn’s Woods becomes apparent through Irish and Welsh names such as Caernarvon, Cambria, Conemaugh, Croyle, Cumru, Donegal, Belfast, Derry, Dublin, Lower Gwynedd, Toboyne, Tredyffrin, Tyrone, Ulster, and Uwchlan.Įnglish settlers felt at home in townships named Conyngham, Birmingham, Buckingham, Cambridge, East Manchester, East Nottingham, Exeter, Worcester, and London Britain, London Grove, and Londonderry. The settlers’ own heritage also came into play when many townships were named. There are too many to list all of them, but here are a few that are sure to give your spell-checker a nervous breakdown: Choconut, Connoquenessing, Cowanshannock, East Chillisquaque, Kiskiminetas, Lackawannock, Lackawaxen, Maxatawny, Monongahela, Nockamixon, Ontelaunee, Quemahoning, Sheshequin, Tunkhannock, Upper Mahantango, and Wiconisco. Many township names were taken from Indian terms for the area.
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There are four Madison townships in Pennsylvania, and three each named Adams and Lincoln, plus a handful of other historically significant names, including Hamilton (five townships). In addition to the aforementioned Washington, Jackson was used to name 18 townships, Jefferson for nine, and Monroe for seven. Presidential names were also used repeatedly. There are also Cherry, Cherry Grove, Cherry Ridge, Cherryhill, and Cherrytree townships. Other similarly named townships include three White townships, along with Whiteley and Whitemarsh Wood, Woodbury (two), Woodcock, and Woodward (three) and Mill Creek (two), Millcreek (two), Miller (two), and Millstone. Some early settlers apparently decided to take the middle road when naming their communities because “middle” shows up in eight township names, including Middlebury, Middlecreek, Middlesex, and Middletown. There are 19 vernal township names in all. Then there are derivations of the same name that pop up from county to county, such as Spring and its various forms, including Spring Brook, Spring Creek, Springfield, Springhill, and Springville. Morris, Mount Pleasant, Richland, Rush, Salem, and Summit (five each).
There are many township names that repeat five or six times, including Allegheny, Porter, and Eldred (six each) and Brady, Center, Clinton, Fairview, Greenwood, Hopewell, Limestone, Pennsylvania also has nine Perry and Wayne, eight Liberty, and seven Greene townships. There are also 18 Union and 11 Penn townships, many of them probably named for the commonwealth’s founder. For example, there are 22 Washington townships in Pennsylvania. Some township names were just so popular that they kept getting used over and over again. Recently, the News took a broader view of the subject, looking for common threads among the more than 1,400 that make up the tapestry of township names in Pennsylvania. Several years ago, the Pennsylvania Township News magazine started the “What’s in a Name” column to find out where townships of the second class got their names.
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