Queen City

English

Proper noun

Queen City

  1. A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
    1. Buffalo, New York, so-called as it was once the largest city along the Great Lakes.
    2. Charlotte, North Carolina, named for British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
    3. Cincinnati, Ohio.
    4. Manchester, New Hampshire.
    5. Meridian, Mississippi, so-named either because it was an important stop on the Queen and Crescent rail line (itself deriving from Cincinnati's designation as Queen City) or because a "gypsy queen" Kelly Mithcell is buried there.[1]
    6. Regina, Saskatchewan, as regina is Latin for "queen".
    7. Seattle, Washington, so-named in 1869 by real estate developers who heralded it as "the Future Queen City of the Pacific".[2]
    8. Toronto, Ontario.
    9. Springfield, Missouri.

References
  1. Alan Brown, Haunted Meridian, Mississippi (2011, →ISBN)
  2. HistoryLink
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