Origin of Name
The district is named after its headquarters, Faridabad city. The city is named after its founder, Shaikh Farid, the treasurer of Jahangir.When Sheik Farid came here,he decided to raise a town here.Soon a town was raised which was named after him.On Talab Road near Gopi Colony (Old Faridabad),his beautiful tomb or `maqbara' can still be seen.
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“Someone had literally run to earth
In an old cellar hole in a byroad
The origin of all the family there.
Thence they were sprung, so numerous a tribe
That now not all the houses left in town
Made shift to shelter them without the help
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)