Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:28 PM 9/7/2008, you wrote: >whence the name "alabama hills"? > >--brad From Wikipedia: The Alabama Hills were named for <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama>CSS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama>Alabama. When news of the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America>Confederate warship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the Confederates, they named many mining claims after her, and the name came to be applied to the entire mountain range.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills#cite_note-kyle-0>[1] Then, when Alabama was sunk off the coast of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy>Normandy by <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_%281861%29>USS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_%281861%29>Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pass>mountain pass, a peak, and a town after Kearsarge.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills#cite_note-kyle-0>[1] Those Confederates again!! ;-) Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com