Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties

This much enlarged third edition of a favorite handbook identifies the origins of nearly 1,000 familiar place...
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Author: David P. Green
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Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties by Green, David P.

Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties

$38.66

Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties

$38.66
Author: David P. Green
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This much enlarged third edition of a favorite handbook identifies the origins of nearly 1,000 familiar place names in the San Antonio region. Naming sleuth Dr. David P. Green cracks mysteries that puzzled him in earlier editions, and comes up with several hundred new entries as well. There are more than three dozen new illustrations.

We deal with dozens of place names in the course of everyday life--of streets, schools, parks, towns, landmarks. Do the names mean anything beyond labeling where we live, the routes we drive or the places we're going? Who--or what--is it named for? An Alamo hero or a noted citizen? A vanished family, a favorite pet or simply someone who happened to be around when a name was needed?

Chapters reveal name origins by category--streets, parks, schools, libraries and learning centers, landmarks, military bases, suburbs. Origins of Spanish names are included, as are those of a few names less officially designated--Pace Picante Sauce, the Quarry Market, the San Antonio Spurs, and more. This is a book with answers you'll be referring to again and again.

Author: David P. Green
Publisher: Maverick Books
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781595346742

About the Author
David P. Green is a surgeon and educator who has written and edited several textbooks on orthopedic and hand surgery. When he was on the faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the 1970s, his address was on Floyd Curl Drive. No one seemed to know who Floyd Curl was. Curiosity over the naming of this street led to a widening search for the stories behind the names of San Antonio.

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