just remembered, check for the USGenweb sites for the state and county the city or town is in, a lot of them have the town history published on their site. On 27.05.2013 17:44, fenenga@connpoint.net wrote: > lot of places in America were named in memory of the hometown of the people who settled here. so there's a lot of places with British place names. as to the specific history of any place, find the public library for the place, or the historical society for the place, and request information-or look it up on Wikipedia, it will have some of them. > > On 27.05.2013 15:11, Diane MARGRIE-Sowden wrote: > >> I live in Gadsden Close Cranham Upminster Essex. I was watching the television channel QUEST last night the FBI CASE FILES and they mentioned the place Called GADSDEN in America. >> >> I have checked on the Internet some of the other road names round here ie Waycross Road and Brunswick Avenue both Waycross and Brunswick are in America. >> >> Please does anyone know of the connection between our housing estate and America please? I would love to know the answer please. >> >> Diane >> >> Sent from my iPad >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message