Talk:List of California county name etymologies
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Truthiness in topic Origin of "Orange County"
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We might want to make sure that what this page says jibes with what each of the individual county articles says. I wrote most of them, which I got from the invididual county articles. For example, Amador County says:
- The county is named for Jose Maria Amador, soldier, rancher and miner, who was born in San Francisco in 1794, the son of Sergeant Pedro Amador, a Spanish soldier who settled in California in 1771. In 1848, Jose Maria Amador, with several Native Americans, established a successful gold mining camp near the present town of Amador. In Spanish, the word amador means "one who loves."
Origin of "Orange County" edit
Orange County is not named for the City of Orange. That error has been corrected.--Truthiness 03:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)