While looking for information about what we could find around Newport, Washington, I discovered that there are multiple Newports in Washington. This is rather confusing to someone who is not from around here!
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| Costco seems to think I *must* mean a Newport that is somewhere near Seattle... maybe because that is where many of their stores are located? |
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| CVS asks which county I'm interested in... of course, I don't know, and I don't know why there are 3 Newports listed in King County... |
Because I don't know, I clicked on the first one, and it turns out that's the one that I'm interested in!
Now, I could avoid all of this confusion if I would look up the zip code of where we are planning to stay, but - why would a state have multiple cities with the same name? Is this common?
As we have been in the Newport area, we've seen that there is a Pend Oreille River and Lake Pend Oreille over in Idaho, as well as several businesses with Pend Oreille in the name. Who or what was/is Pend Oreille?
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| Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pend_Oreille_County,_Washington) tells me that it is named after a tribe and that roughly in French it could mean "hangs from the ear". The pronunciation is not how I've been saying it, but I have a very hard time knowing how to pronounce words in French... it seems that they have a LOT of silent letters! |
I tried to find those Newports that CVS thought were in King or Thurston Counties, and that Costco thought was near Seattle -
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| ...in King County, it seems that there is a community called Newport within the city of Bellevue east of Seattle. |
In Thurston County, all I could find were a Newport St and Newport Ct in Olympia.
It would make more sense to me if a town named "Newport" was on the coast - isn't that where ports, new or old, would be?
And... when I was asking in Newport about places that might take our recycling (we haven't found any), one of the directions that a lady gave me sent me on "route 41 through old town" which I heard as "old town", like maybe the old downtown section... but...
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| It turns out that Oldtown is the name of the area in Idaho... |
So, now I know a little more about the names of places around this area of Washington!
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