Hey, at least we're not Kansas City. Sitting on the Missouri river in Kansas and the Kansas River in Missouri.
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Hey, at least we're not Kansas City. Sitting on the Missouri river in Kansas and the Kansas River in Missouri.
Or you could have your state named after your city. 
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Ninjedit: VR, a ton of features are named after native tribes here too.
Ninjedit: VR, a ton of features are named after native tribes here too.
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they're next to Lee Rd.
Take lee jackson down to jackson and cross over to Old Lee and boom, you're there.
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I'm a bit lost here.
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Kennigit
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all roads in nova are a variation of lee or jackson 
both loudoun and fairfax
I mean highway 50 is Lee Jackson highway, etc etc. any combo you want, you got it!
just like how atlanta has roughly 45 "Peachtree" streets. North peachtree, peachtree, etc etc.
both loudoun and fairfaxI mean highway 50 is Lee Jackson highway, etc etc. any combo you want, you got it!
just like how atlanta has roughly 45 "Peachtree" streets. North peachtree, peachtree, etc etc.
madviking
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all roads in nova are a variation of lee or jackson
I mean highway 50 is Lee Jackson highway, etc etc. any combo you want, you got it!
just like how atlanta has roughly 45 "Peachtree" streets. North peachtree, peachtree, etc etc.
Ohhhh I thought you meant there is a Virginia City/River next to US 50.
But yea that makes a bunch more sense now.
Numbered streets (in Charlottesville) ftw.
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You can thank us for tearing up all the named roads in town during our little family fued and replacing them with numbered ones.
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How can you not tell between all the types of peachtree streets?
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Wait, there were natives called the Red Sticks?
Yeah, like the Pulaskis, the Carolines, the Dinwiddies, the King Williams, and the - oh, wait.VR, a ton of features are named after native tribes here too.
Red Stick Creeks were a loose association of villages that rebelled against the Creek council in 1812-13 due to internal power struggles and social tensions there. The Creek national council called in the local American Indian Agent, who brought in militia from neighboring states to try to control things; as a result, Red Sticks attacked an American outpost in Alabama, Fort Mims, and massacred the soldiers, civilians, and Creeks there. This led to Andrew Jackson taking overall command in the theater and instituting a war of extermination, in which he killed off the Red Sticks and made the loyal Creeks pass under the yoke (with the aptly named "Treaty of Fort Jackson").Wait, there were natives called the Red Sticks?
This Creek War is usually associated with the contemporary War of 1812, even though the British were barely involved and the Spanish didn't want to be involved but also didn't have much of a choice. The association is strengthened by the fact that Jackson later took his troops to defend the Gulf Coast against the British, which culminated in something called the Battle of New Orleans, about which you might've heard. And since the Battle of New Orleans was essential to American national mythmaking after the war, the Creek War was sort of crammed in alongside it.
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