Did you know the Dunedin area was originally named Jonesboro by George L. Jones, the owner and operator of a local general store?

In 1885, when two Scottish merchants, John O. Douglas and James Somerville, both from Scotland, came to the area and opened up a general mercantile business, they petitioned the government to open a post office with the name Dunedin. The Gaelic name Dùn Èideann after their hometown of Edinburgh meaning “castle on the rock”.

Although not a prevalent part of its early days, Dunedin grasped onto its Scottish founding by naming roads and neighborhoods like Scotland Street, Louden Avenue, Highland Avenue, Locklie Street, Aberdeen Street, Beltrees Street, Brae-Moor, Loch Lomond, Lake Highlander, and Stirling Heights.

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