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jpd_phd t1_j5xcavy wrote

I mean, the district did have that name many decades before the state did.

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WrongOnSoManyBevels t1_j5yxthn wrote

I was told growing up that when breaking off from Oregon they originally were going to call the new territory Columbia, but thought that it would be confusing because DC at the time was known as the District of Columbia.

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