Naming and Spaces

 Madison Blackburn

Geography 101

Paul Carter’s “Spatial History” and “Naming Place” was all about the space of places, the history of the spaces, and how they were named. A place is usually named after something significant to the area or the people living in the area, there is usually a history around it. Where I live you can see an island that everyone here know’s as “The Elephant’s Nose”, this is because it looks like an elephants head and trunk while it is laying down. This has had this name for years and is continually passed down through generations. The reading also talked about how the names of the places have been changed in some years and it was interesting to read about the changes that occur over years and really put it into place of how things have changed in our own home town. The “Naming Place” reading talked about the significance of names of places to individual people, how some people think of a special place when they hear certain names and how they may be unique to them. Both of these readings were really interesting and tied in together as they talked about the naming of places and the history behind both the name and the space and the changes that occur.