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Article on the etymology of the person responsible for naming the town of Violet, La.

Violet was named for Violet Blair Janin, wife of Albert "J.C." Janin, prime developer of the 1870s project that dredged the canal linking Lake Borgne to the Mississippi River that is now called Violet Canal, Fernandez said.

As businesses and a small town developed, Janin named the community and the canal after his wife, a member of the distinguished Blair family of Washington, D.C., Fernandez said.

Violet Janin's family owned the historic Blair House in the nation's capital.

Later, Violet Janin was an heir to the Mammoth Cave estates in Kentucky, and the couple moved there to develop the area into a famous tourist attraction, Fernandez said. The cave property was later sold to the state of Kentucky and was acquired by the federal government to become a national park.

reference>Times-Picayune (New Orleans) April 17, 2005 Sunday / St. Bernard Picayune; Pg. 24 "The name game; Local communities steeped in history, lore" -- Steve Cannizaro