Place Names in Alabama

Place Names in Alabama
Author: Virginia O. Foscue
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 081730410X

Catalogs some 2700 Alabama communities, ranging from Abanda, in Chambers County, to Zip City, in Lauderdale County.

Indian Place Names in Alabama

Indian Place Names in Alabama
Author: William A. Read
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1984-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 081730231X

This is a revised edition with a foreward, appendix, and index by James B. McMillan.

Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin

Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin
Author: William A. Read
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2008-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817355057

His writings spanned five decades and have been instrumental across a wide range of academic disciplines. Most importantly, Read devoted a good portion of his research to the meaning of place names in the southeastern United States—especially as they related to Indian word adoption by Europeans. This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read.

A Place Called Peculiar

A Place Called Peculiar
Author: Frank K. Gallant
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486483606

From Bug Tussle, Alabama, to Donnybrook, New York, this pop-culture history offers a highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins. The author traveled the country, recording the best stories and legends he encountered. The only nationwide survey of its kind, it's a great browsing book with a state-by-state format for easy reference

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1910
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.