List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - New Jersey

New Jersey

  • New Jersey and Jersey City (after the Bailliage de Jersey, the largest of the Anglo-Norman Channel Islands near the coast of northwest France)
  • Bayonne (according to tradition, from Bayonne, France)
  • Lavallette (named for Elie A. F. La Vallette, U.S. naval captain of French family origin)
  • Port Liberté
  • Montclair ("Bright Mountain")

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Famous quotes containing the word jersey:

    “vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous
    picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.”
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)