The Boston Massachusettsians. No, just kidding. In 1957 the Little Rock Travelers renamed themselves the Arkansas Travelers, and claim to be the first sports team to take the name of their state. Naturally they're now affiliated with the Mickey Mouse organization formerly known as the California Angels, who abandoned their state name and are now named after two different cities. The Travelers play in a league named after a state (and not, as some suspect, a bloop single). There were already two baseball teams that had state names: The New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. But the Yankees were presumably named not for the state, but for the city so nice they named it twice. The Senators were named for Washington D.C. and not Washington state -- though there was once a great quote by a Washington Redskins player about how proud he was to represent the great state of Washington. The Senators actually did become the first Major League Baseball team to claim a state name when they became the Minnesota Twins in 1961. The Twins took the state name because they were named after the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the Minneapolis Twins of St. Paul would have sounded almost as ludicrous as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim would sound forty years later.
Mormon pioneers settled many cities in the western and midwestern United States. The federal government drew the state boundaries and named the states.
Pennsylvania was named for William Penn.
Montana is the only state in the USA without a modern naval ship named after it.
Pennsylvania
Minneapolis and Saint Paul are cities in Minnesota.
Minneapolis / St. Paul (The Twin Cities) is in Minnesota.
Minnesota. "The Twin Cities" (Minneapolis, MN & St. Paul, MN)
The twin cities are Minneapolis and St. Paul, which are located in Minnesota.
It is nicknamed The Twin Cities for its two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the former the larger and the latter the state capital.
The Boston Massachusettsians. No, just kidding. In 1957 the Little Rock Travelers renamed themselves the Arkansas Travelers, and claim to be the first sports team to take the name of their state. Naturally they're now affiliated with the Mickey Mouse organization formerly known as the California Angels, who abandoned their state name and are now named after two different cities. The Travelers play in a league named after a state (and not, as some suspect, a bloop single). There were already two baseball teams that had state names: The New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. But the Yankees were presumably named not for the state, but for the city so nice they named it twice. The Senators were named for Washington D.C. and not Washington state -- though there was once a great quote by a Washington Redskins player about how proud he was to represent the great state of Washington. The Senators actually did become the first Major League Baseball team to claim a state name when they became the Minnesota Twins in 1961. The Twins took the state name because they were named after the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the Minneapolis Twins of St. Paul would have sounded almost as ludicrous as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim would sound forty years later.
Minnesota
Minnesota is the state.
There are different twin cities in many different countries. In the United States, the two cities that are referred to as the Twin-Cities are Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the state Minnesota.
Saint Paul is the capital city in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
The capital of Minnesota is St Paul, which is next to the largest city in Minnesota, Minneapolis. Together, the cities are called the Twin Cities.It may be because the city named after the state (Minneapolis) is not the capital, but it is immediately adjacent to the capital, which is St. Paul, so that they are called the Twin Cities.
Minneapolis and St. Paul are located on the eastern border of the state of Minnesota, near the banks of the Mississippi River in south-central Minnesota. They are right next to each other and you almost can't tell them apart.