148 PLACE. NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Hamilton; town in Harris County, Georgia, named for General Hamilton, governor 
of South Carolina. 
Hamilton; city in Hancock County, Illinois, named for Artois Hamilton, a first 
settler. 
Hamilton; county in Iowa, named for William W. Hamilton, president of the sen- 
ate in 1857. 
Hamilton; county in Texas, named for James Hamilton, of South Carolina, a sym- 
pathizer and helper of Texas in its war. 
Hamlet; village in Richmond County, North Carolina, named for its founder. 
Hamlin; city in Brown County, Kansas, plantation in Aroostook County, Maine, 
county in South Dakota, and several other places, named for Hannibal Hamlin. 
Hammond; village in Piatt County, Illinois, named for Charles Goodrich Ham- 
m< »nd, rail way manager. 
Hammond; city in Lake County, Indiana, named for Abram Hammond, twelth 
governor, 1860-61. 
Hammond; town in Presque County, Michigan, named for Stephen Hammond. 
Hammond; town in St. Lawrence County, New York, named for Abijah Hammond, 
an early proprietor. 
Hammonton; town in Atlantic County, New Jersey, named for a family of former 
residents. 
Hammonville; town in Hart County, Kentucky, named for a resident. 
Hampden; county, and town in same county, in Massachusetts, and town in Penob- 
scot County, Maine, named for the English patriot, John Hampden. 
Hampshire; counties in Massachusetts and West Virginia, named from the county 
in England. 
Hampstead; village in Carroll County, Maryland; town in Rockingham County, 
New Hampshire; and villages in Pender County, North Carolina, and King 
George County, Virginia, named from the parish in England. 
Hampton; town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, and twenty-five other 
places, directly or indirectly named from the parish in Middlesex, England. 
Hampton; county, and town in same county, in South Carolina, named for Gen. 
Wade Hampton. 
Hamptonbur g ; town in Orange County, New York, named from the birthplace — 
Wolverhampton — of William Bull, the first settler. 
Hampton Roads; Virginia; a channel between Chesapeake Bay and the estuary of 
James River. Scene of the naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimac, 
March 9, 1862. 
Hancock; counties in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Kentucky; county, and 
town in same county, in Maine; town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts; county 
in Mississippi; mountain in New Hampshire; town in Delaware County, New 
York; and counties in Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia; named for John Han- 
cock, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Many other places in the 
United States are named for the same man. 
Hancock; mount in Yellowstone Park, named for Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. 
Hand; county in South Dakota, named for George A. Hand, Territorial secretary in 
1880. 
Handsboro; town in Harrison County, Mississippi, named for a northern man who 
established a foundry there before the civil war. 
Hanford; city in Kings County, California, named for one of the earliest settlers. 
Hanging Rock; village in Lawrence County, Ohio, named from the presence of a 
cliff at the back of the town. 
Hangmans; creek in Washington, tributary of the Spokane River, so named because 
a number of Indians were hanged on its bank. 
