Talk:Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

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[edit] Trivia

• "Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site," at one acre, perhaps should win an award for the smallest ratio of land compared to the length of it name.
• This is the only National Battlefield Site left in the country. All others with that designation (including the nearby and nearly identical Tupelo National Battlefield) have been renamed. Why is this the only one? (Perhaps we will never know, but it is probably related to a lack of interest by Members of Congress in modern times in introducing any bill even remotely related to a site honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest. Redesignating the site would take an act of Congress.)

By the way, the battle really is called "Brice's Crossroads" but the site "Brices Cross Roads." Again, I have no clue why.

— Eoghanacht ^talk 20:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Years ago, the federal gummint went to war against apostrophes in place names. That's why it's Stones River, Harpers Ferry, Sailors Creek, etc. Hal Jespersen 19:19, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Yet there is "Wilson's Creek National Battlefield." Also, it does not explain "Cross Roads" for "Crossroads." — Eoghanacht ^talk 17:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

And there's Devils Tower National Monument. When we visited this site, the rangers told us that there's no apostrophe due to a typographical error back when the park was formed, which has stuck (one can imagine the same is true for Devils Postpile National Monument). Nationalparks 17:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

To risk getting even further off-topic... I heard that Charlotte Amalie (pronounced "Amalia") on St. Thomas, named after Charlotte Amelia of Hesse-Cassel, is spelt that way because of a typo by the U.S. Post Office shortly after acquiring the territory. But my favorite is Clew Bay (see Talk:Clew Bay for the story). — Eoghanacht ^talk 17:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)