Classical/Biblical
Columbia
South Carolina (SC)est. 1786pop. 139,698/kuh-LUHM-bee-uh/
The meaning
“Land of Columbus”
How it got the name
The South Carolina senate voted in 1786 between Columbia and Washington for its new inland capital. Columbia won by seven votes. The name was the fashionable poetic feminine personification of the young republic, coined in the 1730s and everywhere in revolutionary verse.
Former names
- Granby (nearby predecessor)
- Columbia