Canton, Ohio 真的跟广东有关系。。。

OMIGA, ohio的这个城市真的是因广东而得名的啊。。。
每个月收到的电力帐单都是从这里寄出的，美国电力的区域性总部在那里。。。
我是无聊了看美国雀巢的总部也在那附近才查的。。。
Canton was founded in 1805. Cantonrep.com quotes Kim Kenney, the curator of the William McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, whose information came from E.T. Heald’s series The Stark County Story, as saying that Canton was incorporated as a village in 1822, and then as a city in 1838. However, the history page of the City of Canton’s web page[9] gives the date for incorporation as a village as being in 1815, as a town in 1834, and as a city in 1854.[10]

Bezaleel Wells, the surveyor who divided the land of the town, named it after Canton (an antiquated transliteration for Guangzhou), China. The name was a memorial to a trader named John O’Donnell, whom Wells admired. O’Donnell had named his Maryland plantation after the Chinese city, as he had been the first person to transport goods from there to Baltimore.
通过Canton, Ohio – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
无聊又查了一下，发现大部分叫canton的城市都跟广东有关系，illinois的那个最搞笑，是因为建城者误以为自己的城市的对立点（穿越地心的对面）正好是广州（英语也叫canton）
另外那个baltimore的广东其实也有一种说法，是因为原来的american can company在这里所以才由can-town演化而来。这种说法不是那么可信，况且据说建城者正好是做贸易生意把广东的东西运到baltimore的。。。