I believe Pekin sounded too oriental during the second world war. > > From: "louann creasy" <jcreasy@cfl.rr.com> > Date: 2007/02/23 Fri AM 08:18:18 EST > To: <mdallega@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [MDALLEGA] Town of Pekin > > Does anybody know how, or when the name of the little town Pekin was changed > to Nikep (Pekin spelled backwards). It's like that on more contemporary maps > and I don't know why. > > Louann > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >