Renaming Place Names in Oregon
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Renaming Place Names in Oregon
If you're at all interested in the process of changing pejorative place names to something more acceptable to the present day -- the sort of thing covered by Mark Monmonier's From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow -- then you'll be interested in this story from the Medford Mail Tribune: The...
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