#123 ny named empire st 1609 by henry hudson but...
"In 1784, five years before George Washington was inaugurated in New York City as the first president, he envisioned New York as the 'seat of empire,' thus giving rise to its nickname--the Empire State. New York has completely fulfilled the expectation that Washington expressed to the state's first governor, George Clinton." Quote from Compton's Encyclopedia.
300 years after Hudson's name, many people got enthused about the phrase.
A search Sunday, 2011-02-13 for 1900 "empire state" had about 825,000 results.
4 years later the fed was created.
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