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Posted by Paul Matus on Sat May 5 14:45:23 2001, in response to Re: Where Do You Say You Live?,
posted by Peter Rosa on Sat May 5 13:47:57 2001.
I think renaming Babylon ststaion "Seaside" was some time in the 1870s or '80s to promote the RR's Fire Island business. Babylon didn't incorporate as a village until 1892, I think. So AFAIK the name never got beyond the station.
Railroads are influential in naming, though. If "Seaside" stayed on the station long enough it might have caught on. My late mother-in-law used to like to tell about "the Welsh people" who named some of the areas west of Philadelphia with names like Llanarch, Bala, Ardmore and Narberth. But these places apparently all got these name in the 1890s when the Pennsy thought they'd sound nice for real estate reasons.
Narberth was simply "Elm" before that. Ardmore was "Athens." Maybe the Welsh people chased out the Greeks. ;-)
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