On Wed, 11 May 2011 03:26:55 -0700 (PDT)
1506 wrote:
Some settler a few hundred years ago thought it reminded them of
hampshire. Fairly simple.

B2003

Maybe, but it was a colony, not a county. Nowadays it has counties.

I think its fair to say the original settlers probably didn't give a toss
about county semantics.

B2003