The New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1996:

Hard to believe, but throughout the land the Federal Government has sanctioned only four apostrophes to make place names possessive. The latest to be so entitled by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the first genitive it has bestowed in 32 years, is Carlos Elmer's Joshua View [Ariz.].... Since 1890, the nine-member board, in Reston, VA., has remained hostile to possessives, stripping Harpers Ferry and Jamestown, among others, of their possessives.

"The board has developed a philosophy that geographic names in the United States should not show ownership of a feature," says Roger Payne, its secretary.... If a town insists on a possessive for local consumption, fine. But no possessives on any Federal maps or documents without dispensation.

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