gannett.] PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. 45 
Bernardo; township and village in San Diego County, California. From the Span- 
ish, relating to the Bernardine religious order. 
Bernardstown; town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, named for the British 
governor, Sir Francis Bernard. 
Berrien; county in Georgia, and county, and township in same county, in Michigan, 
named for John McPherson Berrien, attorney-general of the United States in 
1829. 
Berry; creek in Idaho, so named by Captain Clark, the explorer, because he sub- 
sisted entirely on berries at that place. 
Berry; village in Harrison County, Kentucky, named for a man who had a station 
there called Berry's station. 
Berryville; town in Carroll County, Arkansas, named for James 11. Berry, uovernor 
of the State. 
Berthoud; village in Larimer County, Colorado, named for E. L. Berthoud, chief 
engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad. 
Bertie; county in North Carolina, named for James and Henry Bertie, in whom 
the proprietary rights of the Earl of Clarendon rested. 
Berwick; town in York County, Maine, named from the town in England, Berwick- 
upon-Tweed. 
Berwick; borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, named from the county in 
Scotland. 
Bessemer; town in Jefferson County, Alabama, city in Gogebic County, Michigan, 
town in Gaston County, North Carolina, and several other places; named for 
Sir Henry Bessemer, who invented the process of reducing iron ore. 
Bethaldo; village in Madison County, Illinois. Changed from Bethel to distinguish 
it from another post-office of that name. 
Bethany; village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, borough in Wayne County, Penn- 
sylvania, and many other places bear the name of the village in Palestine. 
Bethel; town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and many other places, named 
directly or indirectly from Bethel in Palestine. 
Bethesda; post-office in Montgomery County, Maryland, and several other places. 
named from the pool in Jerusalem. 
Bethlehem; borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, originally a Moravian 
settlement, named on Christmas Day, 1741, from the birthplace of Christ in 
Judea. Twelve other places in the Union bear the same name. 
Betsie; river, point, and town, in Michigan, a corruption of the French name given 
to the river in early days, aux bees scies, meaning "at the snouts of the sawfish." 
Beulah; post-office in Crawford County, Kansas, and many towns and villages bear 
this Scriptural name. 
Beverly; city in Essex County, Massachusetts, and many towns and villages bear 
this name, probably derived from Beverly, in Yorkshire, England. 
Beverly; township and city in Burlington County, New Jersey, so named by the 
first settlers, who found the country overrun with beavers. 
Beverly; town in Randolph County, West Virginia, doubtless named for William 
Beverly, the original grantee of Beverly manor. 
Bevier; village in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and city in Macon County, Mis- 
souri, named for Col. Robert Bevier, of Kentucky. 
Bexar; villages in Marion County, Alabama; Fulton County, Arkansas, and Lauder- 
dale County, Tennessee, and county, and village in same county, in Texas, named 
for the Duke of Bexar, a Spanish nobleman. 
Bibb; counties in Alabama and Georgia, named for Dr. William Wyatt Bibb, mem- 
ber of Congress from Georgia. 
Bicknell; village in Knox County, Indiana, named for John Bicknell. 
