Abstract
roots of the American Name can be traced to the formation in 1938 of a name interest group within the American Dialect Society, and place name studies have remained a core focus of our organization ever since. A few years later (1943), George R. Stewart began a correspondence with Robert L. Ramsey (subsequently involving Alan Walker Read, Helge Kokeritz, and others) proposing a Place-Name Society independent of ADS in order to facilitate a Place-Name Survey of the United States. For the proposed Constitution of the society, The object of the is to prepare and publish a place-name dictionary of North America, as well as to encourage any projects which may be subsidiary to that end (Lance, 2). For the proposed Place-Name Survey of the United States,
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