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Trivia for July 30, 2013

Question

What are the only two teams based in cities named after former U.S. presidents?

Answer

Washington and Jacksonville

6 Reader Comments:

BRUCE SADLER

LAKELAND, FL
2013-07-30T13:12:18Z
Jacksonville a little of a stretch I know Andrew Jackson but I guess that's why it is Triva

Aaron Bodzin

Fresh Meadows, NY
2013-07-30T13:20:02Z
Jacksonville and Cleveland

Ian Allan

Seattle, WA
2013-07-30T16:40:58Z
No on Cleveland. It was around long before Grover Cleveland became a national figure.

tavis medrano

san gabriel, CA
2013-07-31T15:04:53Z
Houston is named after Sam Houston who I belive was TE president of the Texas republic. And of course the rams play in the city named for a king.

Ian Allan

Seattle, WA
2013-07-31T16:18:26Z
Per wiki, Sam Houston is the only person who was elected Governor of two different U.S. states. I will file that away and perhaps work it into a later trivia question.

Anthony Aloi

SALEM, MA
2013-08-02T14:23:27Z
While the Giants headquarters is in New York City, per Wikipedia, the Borough of Rutherford was believe to adopt the spelling of its name to President Rutherford Hayes..see below

At the time, much of the property in Rutherford was farmland owned by the estate of John Rutherfurd, a former New Jersey legislator and U.S. Senator, whose homestead was along the Passaic River, near present-day Rutherford Avenue. Van Winkle opened a real estate office at Depot Square (now Station Square) to sell the land of the Rutherfurd Park Association, and began to lay out the area's street grid. The main roads were Orient Way, a wide boulevard heading south-southwest from Station Square, and Park Avenue, which headed west-southwest from Station Square to bring traffic to the new Valley Brook Race Course in what is now Lyndhurst.

In the 1870s, the area began to be called "Rutherford". The definitive reason for the change in spelling of the final syllable from "furd" to "ford" is unknown, though the change may have been the result of name recognition of the Ohio politician Rutherford B. Hayes, who was elected President in 1876, or could have been because of a clerical error done by the United States Postal Service.[22] The Post Office opened a facility called "Rutherford" in 1876. On September 21, 1881, the Borough of Rutherford was formed by formal vote of secession from Union Township.[18] By then, the community had about 1,000 residents.
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