56 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258 
Breakabeen; village in Schoharie County, New York, named from the German 
word for the rushes which grew upon the hanks of the creek. 
Breathitt; county in Kentucky, named for John Breathitt, former governor of the 
State. 
Breckenridge; town in Summit County, Colorado, and city in Caldwell County, 
Missouri, named for John C. Breckinridge, vice-president of the United States. 
Breckinridge; county in Kentucky, named for John Breckinridge, a Kentucky 
statesman. 
Breedsville; village in Van Buren County, Michigan, named for Silas Breed, an early 
settler. 
Breese; village in Clinton County, Illinois, named for Lieutenant-Governor Sidney 
Breese. 
Bremer; county in Iowa, named for Fredrika Bremer, the Swedish authoress, who 
spent some time in that region in 1850. 
Brentwood; town in Contra Costa County, California, named from the town in 
New Hampshire. 
Brentwood; town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, incorporated as Brint- 
wood; probably named from a place in England. 
Brevard; county in Florida, named for Doctor Brevard, author of the Mecklen- 
burg Declaration of Independence. 
Brevard; town in Transylvania County, North Carolina, named for Ephraim J. 
Brevard, a Revolutionary patriot. 
Brewer; mount in California, named for Prof. W. H. Brewer. 
Brewer; city in Penobscot County, Maine, named for Col. John Brewer, a first settler. 
Brewer; strait of Staten Island, New York, discovered by Brewer in 1643. 
Brewster; town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, named for Elder William 
Brewster, one of the first settlers in Plymouth colony. 
Brewster; village in Putnam County, New York, probably named after James and 
Walter F. Brewster, who at one time owned the tract of land comprising the 
village. 
Brewster; county in Texas, named for H. P. Brewster, private secretary to Samuel 
Houston. 
Briceland; village in Humboldt County, California, named for a resident. 
Bridal Veil; falls in Yosemite Valley, California, and falls on a branch of the 
Columbia River, Oregon. A descriptive name. 
Bridal Veil; village in Multnomah County, Oregon, named for the falls. 
Bridge; creek in Yellowstone Park, named from a natural bridge of trachyte over it. 
Bridgeport; city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, also of numerous other places, 
usually so called from a bridge in or near the place. The suffixes "ton," 
"town," "water," and "ville" are also used frequently. 
Bridgeport; township and town in Lawrence County, Illinois, first called The 
Bridge, from a bridge spanning a stream at that point. 
Bridger; peak, village in Carbon County, and river in Montana, lake in Yellow- 
stone Park, and pass in the Rocky Mountains, named for Maj. James Bridger, a 
noted guide. 
Bridgeton; city in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Corrupted from bridge town, 
so named because of its location by the bridge over the old fording place on the 
Cohansey River. 
Bridgewater; town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, named for the Duke of 
Bridgewater. Nason says the name was derived from a town in Somersetshire, 
England. 
Bridgton; town in Cumberland County, Maine, named for an early settler, Moody 
Bridges. 
