Talk:Charlotte, Rochester, New York

Naming of Charlotte

 * I added Fact onto "Charlotte was named for Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales." This statement was included on the first version of this page and comes from the epodunk.com entry at http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=63047.  While epodunk says that it uses many credible sources to compile its pages (see about:sources), it doesnt name those sources for any given article.  I've searched a few articles from Rochester History and have not yet been able to find a mention to origin of the name.  The closest I've found is a reference to "Charlottesburg" on page 2 of Barnes, Joseph W. (January 1975). "The Annexation of Charlotte". Rochester History XXXVII (1). Rochester Public Library. ISSN 0035-7413. (http://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v37_1975/v37i1.pdf)

I'll keep looking for more info on this subject and leave the Charlotte Augusta reference on the page for now... Dspark76 (talk) 14:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I found the Journal of De Witt Clinton from 1811 which claims that "Charlottsburgh" was in compliment to Colonel Troup's daughter.

see: http://books.google.com/books?id=g3IFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPR4,M1 (page 113)

I removed the old note about Charlotte Augusta. Dspark76 (talk) 13:33, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It may be possible that the renaming from Charlottsburg to Charlotte was in honor of the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales who died during childbirth in 1817, but I havent yet found any references to confirm this... Dspark76 (talk) 00:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)