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	List of Texas county name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castro County, Texas: Castro is named for Henri Castro, a French consul general for the Republic of Texas and founder of a colony in Texas.
		Hockley County, Texas: Hockley is named for George Washington Hockley, Chief of Staff of the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, artillery commander during the Battle of San Jacinto, and secretary of war of the Republic of Texas.
		Runnels County, Texas: Runnels is named for Hiram George Runnels, the ninth governor of Mississippi and planter in Texas.
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	List of Illinois county name etymologies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This is a list of Illinois county name etymologies.
		Effingham County is named for Lord Edward Effingham, who resigned his commission as general in the British army in 1775, refusing to serve in the war against the colonies.
		Tazewell County was named for Littleton Waller Tazewell, a Governor of Virginia.
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	List of Texas county name etymologies
		Archer County, Texas: Archer is named for Branch Tanner Archer, a commissioner for the Republic of Texas.
		Brewster County, Texas: Brewster is named for Henry Percy Brewster, a secretary of war for the Republic of Texas and soldier in the Civil War.
		Grimes County, Texas: Grimes is named for Jesse Grimes, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Indepndence and early settler of the future county.
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	U.S. state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Nebraska, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee, and others.
		Additionally, the name of Idaho was presented as a Native American word by eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing, though it was later revealed that he made it up.
		The name New York can refer to any one of three geographical levels: a state, a city in that state, or a county (coterminous with the borough of Manhattan) in that city.
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	List of Texas county seat name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of Texas county seat name etymologies, taken from the Handbook of Texas.
		A separate list of Texas county name etymologies, covering Texas counties instead of its county seats, is also available.
		(It is not named for Emory Rains, an early legislator and surveyor of the area, for whom Rains County is named.)
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	James K. Polk Encyclopedia Articles @ Karrnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		His name is forever associated with Manifest Destiny—the idea that it was the United States' divine mission to expand westward.
		Polk County, Nebraska was the fourth county founded West of the Missouri River in 1870.
		Polk County, Missouri, founded in 1835, was originally named in honor of Polk's grandfather, Revolutionary War hero Ezekiel Polk.
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	Who Was Who in Name Study
		In 1951, she was present in Chicago at the organizing of the American Name Society and served on its Board of Managers from 1952 to 1956, regretfully refusing the nomination as president in 1956.
		He was convinced that a comprehensive study of family names, including their linguistic and geographical origins, and evidence of both their early and contemporary distribution in Newfoundland, was a fundamental exercise in deepening knowledge of Newfoundland place names.
		He was the guiding light in the creation of the American Name Society in 1951, arranged its first meeting on December 29 of that year, wrote the Society’s constitution and bylaws, and served as its first president from 1951 to 1954 (and again in 1970).
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		A county of the United States of America is a local level of government smaller than a state but (generally) larger than a city or town, in a U.S. state or territory.
		Several cities and counties around the country have unified their governments; these consolidated city-county governments are considered both a city and a county under state law.
		These are still counties in name and in state law; nevertheless, since 1898 they have been entirely contained within the boundaries of the city, and following the creation of Bronx County in 1914, each borough now corresponds exactly to one county.
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alabama has 67 counties have their own elected legislative branch, usually called the Board of Commissioners, which usually also has executive authority in the county.
		The current governor of the state is Bob Riley and the two U.S. senators are Jefferson B. Sessions III and Richard C. Shelby (all three from the Republican Party).
		The only 11 counties voting Democratic were Black Belt counties, where African Americans are in the majority.
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	Lists of U.S. county name etymologies - TheBestLinks.com - Lake Michigan, Native American, U.S. state, Madison County, ...
		List of Alaska borough and census area name etymologies
		List of North Carolina county name etymologies--Under construction
		List of people who have more than one county named for them in one U.S. state
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		List of Prime Ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
		List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
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	sociology - Texas
		The state name derives from a word in a Caddoan language of the Hasinai, tejas, meaning friends or allies; Spanish explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their location.
		The influence of the diverse immigrants from Europe survives in the names of towns, styles of architecture, genres of music, and varieties of cuisine.
		The Houston Oilers, formerly based in Texas, moved to Memphis and later to Nashville, Tennessee, and became the Tennessee Titans.
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	ABCgenealogy: Regional/United_States
		List of extinct U.S. counties - This is a list of U.S. counties that were established by a state, provincial, colonial, or territorial government, which no longer exist, for one reason or another.
		Lists of U.S. county name etymologies - Alphabetically and by State.
		The purpose of this site and mail list is for the submission of newspaper abstracts (or links to other sites with newspaper abstracts) from United States newspapers published prior to 1923.
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		Based upon a popular Broadway play of the same name, Cabin in the Sky tells a version of the Faust legend in which Little Joe, a man killed over gambling debts, is given six months to redeem his soul and become worthy of entering Heaven -- otherwise...
		The program here is homesteading and includes: historical cabin tours, gardening, wood working (some years), catching chickens, milking cows, and various projects that the staff may be working on to improve the camp.
		Log Cabin is a city located in Henderson County, Texas.
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	List of Texas County Seat Name ... Encyclopedia Articles @ YYOC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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