Talk:La Plata, Maryland

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I just tried to correct the facts on the La Plata tornado, but I need to do the following:
get the date of the prior tornado
Confirm the death toll for the earlier tornado.

I'm pretty sure the 2002 death toll remained at 4.

Other things I'd like to have done: make a separate page for the two La Plata tornados, and link to it; expand that page to give some possible geographic factors for tornados forming off the Blue Ridge

Walt

[edit] origin of name La Plata

Why was this town named La Plata? G Clark 01:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

When the railroad put up a station, it was just a road crossing in the middle of a field, so they seem to have taken the name from the farm that was there, which was La Plata. I've not seen anything on the origins of the name for the farm. Walt 11:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. G Clark 20:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Im a history major doing reasearch on charles county. One book on the history of charles county (published in 1958) states that the name of the farm was originally le plateau french for the description of that area (La Plata is on top a hill or plateau). Basically after years of being corrupted by local dialects it eneded up as La Plata and has no relation to the spanish word la plata "the silver"

I'm going to make the tornado a headline... I doubt anyone would call that an attraction.--Maddux31holytrinity 14:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)