smithvilles

Updated: July 26, 2026

Or, if not these, our Anglo-Saxon practically gives us, not Our Lady of the Solitude, nor the City of the Holy Cross, not Fresno, the ash, nor Mariposa, the butterfly, but the momentous repetition of Smithvilles, Jonesboroughs, and Brownstowns, which makes the map of the Mississippi Valley a waste of unpoetical mediocrity. So the Spanish names constitute our legacy from the Mission Fathers.

David Starr Jordan - The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches