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According to this history website, it comes from an American Indian word, moingona, meaning river of the mounds - something to do with ancient burial grounds.
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Actually, I believe Des Moines is French for "Some Monks"
In the early days, before the Louisiana purchase, French fur traders were pretty heavy in the area, and when they came upon a new place, they tended to name it in a pretty coarse manner after some of the things they saw: For example, Baton Rouge means "Red Stick." (Why there was a red stick there, I'll probably never know.)
So, presumably, there were some monks in the area.
Hence, Des Moines. :]
In the early days, before the Louisiana purchase, French fur traders were pretty heavy in the area, and when they came upon a new place, they tended to name it in a pretty coarse manner after some of the things they saw: For example, Baton Rouge means "Red Stick." (Why there was a red stick there, I'll probably never know.)
So, presumably, there were some monks in the area.
Hence, Des Moines. :]
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The name Baton Rouge comes from the bloody pike which the French revolutionaries (i.e. Robespierre and the rest of the radicals) put Marie Antoinette's head on after decapitation, ushering in an era known as the reign of terror in which some twenty thousand people were publicly killed via the guillotine. Therefore, the "Baton Rouge" has become a symbol of liberty and freedom from oppression. It was meant as a deterrent to contradict the naming of Louisville after King Louis the fourteenth.
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