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Believed to be named after Hernando DeSoto Money, a U.S. senator from Mississippi, the small town holds a significant place in Civil Rights history as the spot where 14-year-old Emmett Till was ...
Angelina County, Texas, named for a Hasinai Native American woman who assisted early Spanish missionaries and was named Angelina by them. [10]Marinette County, Wisconsin, named for Marinette, a 19th-century trader who was the daughter of a French-Canadian trapper and a Menominee woman.
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
Bannack, Montana a ghost town reportedly haunted by executed outlaws and a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy. [91] Bannack, a ghost town, was founded in 1862 and named after the Bannock Indian tribe. Several claims of hauntings have been made there, including the apparition of a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy who drowned in Grasshopper Creek.
Ketchup Town Tucked between S.C. Highways 23 and 99 about nine miles north of Aynor, this enclave traces its roots to the Depression era. In 1927, Herbert Small built his home and a general store ...
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
Most Terrifying Places in America was an American paranormal documentary television series that premiered on October 9, 2009 on the Travel Channel as a stand-alone special. The special was subsequently broken down into an episodic series. Each episode featured the legends and stories of several reportedly haunted locations throughout America.
By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...