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luxnight t1_j69g63r wrote

Reply to comment by Bada__Ping in Boldly Go. by icedcoffee4eva

Very close! "Beverly Hills gets its name from Beverly Farms, an oceanside community within the city of Beverly, Mass." May be a technicality but still ;)
https://beverlyhighlights.com/10298/feature/who-is-beverly-anyway-beverly-hills-centennial-the-history/

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Bada__Ping t1_j69k1kq wrote

And where does Beverly Farms get it’s name from? Lol

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JGard18 t1_j69y3bu wrote

England! Like almost all MA towns

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joeyrog88 t1_j6a0cdj wrote

Chicopee begs to differ

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Giving_Cat t1_j6a7o19 wrote

You had me at “Chicopee begs”.

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Alphatron1 t1_j6e8a6b wrote

I met a girl on the commuter rail who said Chicopee was her second home everyone loved Her there. I don’t think she meant the town

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no_buses t1_j6afaqr wrote

And Swampscott, and Natick, and Mattapan, and most of the Buzzards Bay communities…

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koebelin t1_j6ammam wrote

Native Eastern Algonquian names are great. Ponkapoag, Mattakeesett, Nantasket, Neponset, Shawmut, Nahant, Wachusetts, Monadnock.They just sound great to my ears. We should have kept more as town names.

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sihtydaernacuoytihsy t1_j6iua8n wrote

Well see in the 1670's there were a ring of about a dozen "praying" (Christianized) towns, including Mashpee, Natick, and Nonantum, that had thrown in for mutual defense with the English colonists. Some went to Roxbury Latin and Harvard, where they learned Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. But then during King Phillips' War (against other, non-praying communities) the colonists decided they didn't really trust their own local allies, and put them out on deer island for the winter, and they died. (Okay, they forced some of them men to act as scouts, at pain of killing their families.)

Anyway Natick is a cool name, I like it too.

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Quirky_Butterfly_946 t1_j6ali0y wrote

Careful, you are mentioning a very sore spot with residents of Beverly and Beverly Farms. Never talk about West Beach without wearing a cup

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