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:

    “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)

    “vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous
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