Showing posts with label Place names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Place names. Show all posts
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Albany County Commissiones vote to change name of lake.
The Albany County Commissioners have voted to change the name of Swastika Lake, in the Medicine Bow National Forest, to Samuel H. Knight Lake, after the famous Wyoming geologist.
One county commissioner, interestingly the only Republican one on the board, which shows how different Albany County's politics are compared to the most of the rest of Wyoming, slammed the move as "Communists". Testimony by others dismissed that proposition, however, and indeed historical evidence showed that Native Americans objected to the use of the word as long ago as the 1940s.
The commissioner action now goes to the Wyoming board that deals with geographical names and, if they approve the change, on to the Federal Government.
Friday, September 9, 2022
Lex Anteinternet: Offensive place names in Wyoming renamed.
Lex Anteinternet: Offensive place names in Wyoming renamed.: The following Wyoming place names were renamed by the Federal Government in Wyoming, after the old place names were found to be offensive. ...
The list is linked in on the other site. For some reason, it won't publish in a visible form here.
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