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Article: Town-Crown Relations; Burlington's not the only Queen City on the map
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- Seven Days
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- March 26, 2003
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While New York City tempts comers with the Big Apple and Boston gasses off about being Beantown, Burlington promises visitors the royal treatment by calling itself the Queen City. The name is designed to suggest that we're better than the rest, but it runs the risk of confusing Vermont's largest city with a score of other places, from Galveston, Texas, to Spearfish, South Dakota. For all their efforts to elevate themselves above the crowd, queen cities are actually awfully common.
Do queen cities have anything in common, other than our nickname? Where does the title come from? What does it mean, anyway? And who better to ask than the experts?
"It's the biggest city in the state," explains ...