When Brook Colley’s father wrote a 1994 book about Oregon swimming holes, he refused to use the name Squaw Lake for a picturesque lake surrounded by forested mountains in the Applegate Valley.
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On Sept. 8, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) had voted on the final replacement names for nearly 650 geographic features with the
The shallow water body near Palos Park, now Cherry Hill Woods Sloughs, may be off the beaten path, but it represents a nationwide effort to remove derogatory words from place names.
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