Posted on 10/27/2017 6:11:47 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Seeking community input on possible renaming of the little known “Confederate Corners” intersection, Supervisor Jane Parker and Monterey County staff have released an online survey allowing the public to weigh in.
The survey explains that the Board of Supervisors has been asked by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to make a recommendation about how to handle the Confederate Corners name, which the U.S. Geological Survey uses to designate the intersection of Monterey-Salinas Highway and Hitchcock Road where former Confederate soldiers settled after the Civil War. The site is in Parker’s district.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
“Alvero’s proposed “Campesino Corners” in an effort to honor the Salinas Valley’s farmworker legacy. Campesino means “farmer” in Spanish.”
I vote for Wetback Corners.
Very soon, our young people will not even know there was a war, or why.
This history erasure is a two-edged sword. It cuts BOTH ways................
I must’ve driven by the intersection hundreds of times when I lived there and never even knew it had that name. That’s how prominent a landmark it is.
You’d think the good supervisor would have more important things (such as a murder rate in the county that would make Chicagoans envious)to worry about.
“Comrade Corners” is much more appropriate and up to date.
Yankee Corners should be suggested, just to see if they’d take the bait.
Monterey County has the highest per capita murder rate for any county in California. Salinas has the highest youth murder rate per capita in the state. But Confederate Corners which only exits on internet GPS maps remains a priority.
San Jose Mercury is a very pro Muslim paper.
I think Boatie McBoatface should be honored with it. After all, no one here has honored this great person.
***where former Confederate soldiers settled after the Civil War. ***
After? During the Civil War, Lt Eugene Ware,(The Indian wars of 1864) stationed in Colorado fighting Indians at the time, said large numbers of people were still passing through on their way to California.
He did not like the fact that many of the men were wearing bits and pieces of Confederate uniforms at the time.
He figured they were deserters, but still did not trust them.
How about Turney McCorners
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