Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 December 22

Was "Laudersdale" ever a normal spelling of the fort or city now known as Fort Lauderdale, Florida? :File:1874 Beers Map of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina - Geographicus - NCSCGAFL-beers-1874.jpg labels it "Ft. Laudersdale". A Google search returns a mix of recent typos and occasional pre-Internet-era books results, but I'm not clear if they're typos or a variant spelling. Nyttend (talk) 16:54, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

:I found a 1922 brochure [https://books.google.com/books?id=ph3g0dZJtFgC&pg=PA356&lpg=PA356&dq=Fort+Laudersdale&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwit_ueHjbTfAhUtxIUKHUfrAU8Q6AEwB3oECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false spelling it so] ( and, unaware, I certainly would spell it so myself ) but that's a grammatical mirage as it seems? [http://journals.fcla.edu/browardlegacy/article/view/79241/76586 This] tells us that it was named after an Army officer. The name was Lauderdale. (to be rescued the one ref in the article, which was moved elsewhere by its provider) --Askedonty (talk) 19:28, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

::Named after [https://www.geni.com/people/Maj-William-Lauderdale/6000000007185972498 Major William Lauderdale], so any other spelling must be an error. Alansplodge (talk) 18:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)