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businesstiramisu · 11 months ago

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That's actually an old spelling of Hawaii!

The reason why there's a bunch of toponyms related to Hawaii in Eastern Oregon/Southern Idaho/Northeastern Nevada is that some Native Hawaiian trappers got lost in the area in the early 19th century and this was apparently noteworthy enough to be memorialized in a river name, county name, and a handful of little towns

(Dickshooter is apparently also named after a specific guy.)

the quaint English village of Cumbucket, located six miles east of Little Spermington, not far from Cockworthy castle.

#US states #us history #toponymy #apparently there were a lot of Hawaiians in the PNW/Basin-and-Range trapping industry in the 19th century??#i'm wondering if china hat is named for the chinese railroad workers in the area b/c there were a bunch of those a few decades later #in 1870 about a quarter of Idaho Territory's population was Chinese immigrants #state governments drove them out over the next few decades with antimiscegenation laws and other legal discrimination #ken liu has a short story about it

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