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How did new yorkget its nickname?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The Empire State According to Compton's Encyclopedia:   Tradition holds that in 1784--five years before George Washington was inaugurated in New York City as the first president--he envisioned New York as the "seat of empire," thus giving rise to its nickname--the Empire State. New York has completely fulfilled the expectation that Washington expressed to the state's first governor, George Clinton.

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17y ago

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