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Squaw Creek (Pit River), a tributary of the Pit River in northern California, United States [clarification needed] Chief Eagle Eye Creek (formerly Squaw Creek), a tributary of the Payette River in western Idaho, United States; Ioway Creek (Ames, Iowa), formerly known as "Squaw Creek", a tributary of the South Skunk River in central Iowa, United ...
In June 1948, the two founded the Squaw Valley Development Company [20] and Cushing replaced Poulsen as president of the Squaw Valley Development Corporation by October 1949. [21] Squaw Valley Ski Resort opened on Thanksgiving Day 1949. [22] The resort was constructed with $400,000 raised by Cushing, including $150,000 of his own money. [21]
Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley, but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word "squaw".
In 2017, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service renamed the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri to Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in 2017. Squaw Ridge in Sierra Nevada was formally renamed Hungalelti Ridge in September 2018, after a proposal by the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. [44]
Dozens of sites across California, U.S. now bear new names in federal order. ... formerly known as Squaw Creek, and Olympic Valley, long known as Squaw Valley, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, in ...
Squaw Valley may refer to: Communities. Yokuts Valley, California, formerly known as Squaw Valley, a census-designated place in Fresno County; Olympic Valley, California, formerly known as Squaw Valley, an unincorporated community in Placer County; Landmarks. Palisades Tahoe, formerly known as Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, California
The Squaw Creek Bridge was located in Harrison Township in rural Boone County, Iowa, United States. It spanned Ioway Creek , formerly named Squaw Creek, for 76 feet (23 m). [ 3 ] The Boone County Board of Supervisors awarded a contract to the N.E. Marsh & Son Construction Company of Des Moines in August 1917 for $6,278. [ 3 ]
Big Sulphur Creek is spanned by two bridges: [4] River Road crosses northeast of Cloverdale, California on a 212-foot (65 m) prestressed concrete span built in 1988.; Geysers Road crosses 18.6 miles (30 km) north of State Route 128 on a 148-foot (45 m) steel truss built in 1909 and reconstructed in 1970.