I noticed that in many Eastern States the people who named the cities seemed to be too lazy to try to think up unique names - they just added North, South, East, West, or Center to an existing nearby city name and let it go at that. They is not common in Western States. Maybe people who traveled West to the Frontier had more individualism or something. You will need to enlarge the attached photo of the Cape Cod area to see the cities that I have noted. Look at maps of other Eastern States and you will find the practice to be oddly common. Weird!
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I think that must be a British throwback. Lots of places here are "Little X", "Greater X", etc. Maybe as adventurous people moved West they started to think for themselves more rather than just following tradition.
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