Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties

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ISBN-10:

1893271579

ISBN-13:

9781893271579

Author(s): GREEN, DAVID P.
Edition: 3
Released: Apr 25, 2011
Publisher: Maverick Pub. Co
Format: Paperback, 237 pages

Description:

This much enlarged edition of a favorite handbook identifies the origins of nearly 1,000 familiar place names in the San Antonio region. Naming sleuth Dr. David P. Green cracks mysteries that puzzled him in earlier editions, and comes up with several hundred new entries as well. There are more than three dozen new illustrations, bringing the total to 144, many of them unpublished elsewhere. Chapters on San Antonio s names reveal origins in numerous categories streets, parks, schools, libraries and learning centers, landmarks, military bases, suburbs. Another chronicles the blizzard of names on the streets and buildings of the South Texas Medical Center. Origins of many Spanish names are included, as are those of a few names less officially designated, such as Pace Picante Sauce and the Quarry Market. Vanished families reappear, forgotten achievements gain new recognition, and those who just happened to be around when a name was needed get their credit, too. This is a book with answers

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