Visitors at the Grand Canyon's Yavapai Point, which is, not
surprisingly, in the "Grand
Canyon State "
A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A
nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.
Way up north, Alaska
is called the "Last Frontier" for understandable reasons. Near the Arctic Circle , it was the final part of the nation to be
explored and settled.
In a popular Spanish book, a fictional island called "California " was
filled with gold. Sure enough, plenty of it was discovered in the real California , in 1848.
This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the "Golden State ."
You would think Colorado
would be known as the "Rocky
Mountain State ."
But its nickname is the "Centennial
State ." That is
because it became a state in 1876, exactly 100 years after the nation declared
its independence.
Little Delaware is called
the "First State " because it was the first
state -- the first to approve the new United States Constitution.
The southern state of Florida
likes to tell about its sunny days and fine beaches. So Florida
is the "Sunshine
State ." Florida 's neighbor to the north grows some of the
sweetest fruit in America .
So Georgia is the "Peach State ."
Next week we will tell you about the nicknames of more
American states.
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