Talk:Mount Rainier, Maryland

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Does anyone have information on when this was named, and why? Living near Seattle, I'm surprised to see a "Mount Rainier" on the East Coast: I'm more used to running into East Coast names out here.--SarekOfVulcan 22:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

According to the city's History page[1], the tradition is that the town (a streetcar suburb built in the late 1800s) was laid out by surveyors from the Pacific Northwest who named it after Mt. Rainier. The page also notes that street names in the original city plan include "Cascade" and "Shasta," which feeds into that theory. Carter 22:19, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Added. --SarekOfVulcan 00:32, 28 January 2006 (UTC)