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MineralMan

(149,489 posts) Sat Jul 11, 2015, 03:47 PM Jul 2015

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Places named after Confederate Historical Figures in the United States [View all]

Wikipedia has lists. Here's a link their list of counties named after Confederate Historical Figures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_prominent_Confederate_historical_figures

It's very interesting, and you might be surprised at some of them.

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Places named after Confederate Historical Figures in the United States [View all] MineralMan Jul 2015 OP

I'm waiting for the US military base... Bigmack Jul 2015 #1

I did not know there was a tradition of naming bases after *enemies* of the nation. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2015 #2

Someone freeped this wiki page mia Jul 2015 #3

Good - the wiki page has been cleaned up. mia Jul 2015 #4

nah, still freeped (or freeped again) fishwax Jul 2015 #5

wants DU women to involve themselves with "real men" mia Jul 2015 #6

Really? Did you grab a screen shot? MineralMan Jul 2015 #8

Go to edit history, the changes will be there Brother Buzz Jul 2015 #14

I did, and put a link in a post downthread. MineralMan Jul 2015 #15

To the wiki freeper mia Jul 2015 #7

Here's a link that shows all of those revisions: MineralMan Jul 2015 #9

My mom's side ties to Texas-Oklahoma (mom, grandpa born in Texas) JonLP24 Jul 2015 #11

I want to take Hoover of the list of named places JonLP24 Jul 2015 #10

Couple of these worth noting 1939 Jul 2015 #12

I just posted the list. I made no comment about it. MineralMan Jul 2015 #13

I lived in Ocala in the 1980s. markonthemark Jul 2015 #16

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