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Subject: [Leica] "Miss Alabama Hills"
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Sun Sep 7 18:01:17 2008
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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
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