Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]CA was seen as a Southern state. We even inherited Southern agriculture after the war. The first big cash crop to make money for Sacramento was King Cotton. s.d. On Sep 7, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information