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When is something old enough to be 'historic'?
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August 10th, 2012
I was looking at a some information about Florida last night in preparation for a visit. One of the websites’ headlines was “Visit Historic Palm Beach”.
I have a hard time with that. Palm Beach didn’t have any settlements until the late 1880s, and it wasn’t incorporated as a town until 1911 – and that’s just barely 100 years. The problem I have is with the word ‘historic’ – one hundred years is practically new. Maybe it’s ‘colorful’ Palm beach, or ‘bucolic’ Palm Beach, but to me, the word ‘historic’ implies centuries or millennia.
For example, I can see St. Augustine as historic – (founded in the 1500s). And Athens, greece, and Rome, of course, are historic.
Where does ‘history’ begin?
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