As an interesting aside, after the Confederate raider Alabama sank the Union warship Hatteras off the coast of Texas on Jan 11, 1863, the low mountains north of Owens Lake in California's Owens Valley were named the Alabama Hills by Southern sympathizers. Sitting in the shadow of Mt. Whitney they're filled with large rounded boulders and are better known today as a backdrop for movies and TV ads.
When the Union man-of-war Kearsarge in turn destroyed the Alabama, miners Thomas May and his partners called their claims the "Kearsarge mining district." In a series of taunts, the town which grew at the mine was called "Kearsarge City," the mountain pass where they were located came to be called the "Kearsarge Pass," and the mountain just to the north of the pass "Kearsarge Mountain." Nearby, a line of steep peaks became "Kearsarge Pinnacles" and the lakes at their base, "Kearsarge Lakes."
© Br. Alfred Brousseau, Saint Mary's College
Thank you for this added information cc.
SAMWolf, come see this interesting information concentric circles shared as an addition to our thread yesterday.
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Thanks concentric circles.
I learned something new today. Some place names have interesting histories.