Talk:Canterlot High School/@comment-10390252-20160401111211

My Headcanon for the Locations in Equestria Girls: I suspect that Everton is the name of the city in which Crystal Prep is situated and Everfree is the name of the county. The city's name is basically a contraction of 'The town in Everfree', which is how a lot of town names here in Britain originate.

The first settlers in that area settled by the Everfree Forest (named due to its magical ability to resist human agricultural methods, leaving it wild and free ). They named the area 'Everfree' after the forest and the town Everton. In time, the small town grew into a city but, even though there was some encroachment, the Everfree Forest remains proud and wild. At some point, an idiot decided it was a good idea to put a summer camp there, hence Camp Everfree. The various issues with the untamable forest trying to consume the camp's buidings and grounds (sometimes literally) led to its current terminal crisis.

It makes sense that the local community college would be named after the city (hence Everton Insitute for Higher Learning).

As for our heroines, their school is in a suburb of Everton City that used to be a seperate county until the growing city swallowed it up - Ponyville (named for the horse market that used to be held there back in the era of the Old West). Canterlot High itself is named for the actual marketplace in Ponyville.