Salt City (1852); Flour City (1852)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:39 PM -0400 6/18/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>FLOUR CITY
>
>    The DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS has 1859 for "Flour City," Rochester.
>
>
>(MAKING OF AMERICA, MICHIGAN-BOOKS)
>Author: Curtiss, Daniel S.
>Title: Western portraiture, and emigrants' guide: a description of Wisconsin,
>Illinois, and Iowa; with remarks on Minnesota, and other territories. By
>Daniel S. Curtiss.
>Publication date: 1852.
>Search results: 2 matches in full text
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>    ("From the large amount of excellent flour that is manufactured at
>Rochester, N. Y., that place is called the 'Flour City;'...")

At some point this was reanalyzed, and for a while both "Flour City"
and "Flower City" were in competition.  I think the latter eventually
prevailed.  Lynne Murphy, are you still on the list?

Larry