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Had anyone even heard of ‘East Palestine, Ohio’ until the East Palestine incident?
Was the place renamed, from a prior one?
Yep. Used to be Mechanicsburg. Now the explanation reads like the beginning of a Herman Melville novel.
eastpalestine-oh.gov/town-history/
Yea shouldn’t it be called West Palestine?
Or maybe it’s the Eastern portion of Ohioan Palestine?
I’m sure there’s thousands of American, Canadian and British towns I’ve never heard of, the world’s a fairly big place.
It’s in eastern Ohio, whereas Palestine is in western Ohio.
Kinda like West Virginia & Virginia.
google scholar here
Ah I see, so the original Ohioan Palestine is in the West.
Bet not too many nonCanadians know there’s a town in Alberta named Medicine Hat.
Hell most probably never heard of Alberta either.
I’ve def heard of Alberta.
its just one of those tiny towns in the middle of nowhere. if it weren’t for the train tracks coming through there wouldn’t be much going on there at all. like in my road trip videos. everyone knows seattle and spokane and san francisco etc, but no one has ever heard of most of those tiny little towns along the backroads between the major cities. i think east palestine has less than 5k people or so. that means at any given moment there may be more people than occupy their entire town just waiting at a sequence of red lights in traffic within a mile of my house
some tiny towns might be well known even if they’re in the middle of nowhere simply because they’re close to something like a national park. so places like moab utah or estes park colorado or port angeles washington asheville north carolina etc. no one ever goes there except people who are looking for a room or a restaurant on their trip to the middle of nowhere. but for all the little towns that aren’t in proximity to something notable, for the most part…no one has ever even heard of them.
side note, another train derailed in florida and it’s got a shit ton of liquid propane on it
Greece
The sky is falling.
I was just wondering why there was a town called East Palestine, in America.
From: eastpalestine-oh.gov/town-history/ “Formerly, East Palestine was called Mechanicsburg, but was changed to “East Palestine” as part of a religious nomenclature in that area such as New Galilee and Enon Valley, Pennsylvania.”
That ^^^ is pretty much what I thought, why.
Palestine, in Ohio [akin to Chinatown, in Soho] …One would think that they would make a big deal about it.
Alberta, yea… Medicine Hat, no! Why! why name it that. lol
Dude… there’s an East Palestine, in America.
The entire online community, on the net, are equally wondering the same as I… how was the world unaware of this?
Yeah suckersville, in gullible county.
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Lol
I guess Americans got bored of giving towns English names like Springfield or Shelbyville, so they thought it’d be cool to name some towns after the old world, especially Europe and the middle east because they felt a connection with those places.
Pretty sure hundreds or thousands of towns got named after the old world, many of them didn’t live up to their name.
Memphis Tennessee for instance was named after Memphis Egypt.
Yea medicine hat is such an odd but cool name, that’s why I thought I’d mention it.
Probably got named after some Amerindian chief or something.
Mechanicsburg… so ‘Murica… even America was like, “That’s a bit too far…”.
They are using it to put Pete Buttigieg in the limelight… he has to handle the dogpile to position for another presidential run. Hunch.