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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
dore Roosevelt; Shanghai (Wharton County), for A. H. "Shang-
hai" Pierce; Taft (San Patricio County), for Charles Taft, a half-
brother of President William Howard Taft.
Numerous Texas towns have a name identical with well known
places in the United States and elsewhere. Few of these have at-
tained any real size. Faring better than the average are: Pasadena
(Harris County), 22,483 population; Paris (Lamar County),
21,643; San Diego (Duval County), 4,397; Memphis (Hall Coun-
ty), 3,810; Columbus (Colorado County), 2,862; Albany (Shack-
leford County), 2,241; Bridgeport (Wise County), 2,049.
New York (Henderson County), named in jest about 1860,
has a population of twenty today. Other examples of communi-
ties which, in spite of their names, are negligible in size: Athens
(Henderson County), Atlanta (Cass County), Bogata (Red Riv-
er County), Boston (Bowie County), Derby (Frio County), De-
troit (Red River County), Egypt (Wharton County), Genoa
(Harris County), India (Ellis County), Los Angeles (La Salle
County), Manchester (Red River County), Miami (Roberts
County), Moscow (Polk County) Naples (Morris County), Ox-
ford (Llano County), Peoria (Hill County), Princeton (Collin
County), Reno (Lamar County; also a smaller Reno in Parker
County), Roanoke (Denton County), Rochester (Haskell Coun-
ty), Scotland (Archer County), Tokio (Terry County).
Saratoga, in Hardin County, took its name from the New York
spa because of medicinal springs found there before the Civil
War. Health seekers journeyed to it until the discovery of an oil
field in 19go1. Since then the springs have fallen into disuse or
been destroyed. Newport (Clay County) was not named for the
Rhode Island resort. It was formed from the first letters of the
names of seven leading citizens.
Optimistic or hopeful names certainly did not guarantee the
future expansion of a town. Take Grow (King County), estab-
lished in 1908, population 150; or Prosper (Colorado County),
established in 1902, population 244; or Pep (Hockley County),
named because of the spirited manner of its citizens in getting
things done, population 60, chiefly German; or Progress (Bailey
County), laid out with great anticipation in 1907 as an area favor-
1A few were not named after the place name they duplicate.
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