https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/us/georgia-creek-renamed-trnd/index.html
(CNN) It took awhile, but the effort to rid a Georgia stream of its offensive name has finally succeeded. Runaway Negro Creek, a small waterway on the state's Skidaway Island
near Savannah, has been officially renamed Freedom Creek.
The US Board on Geographic Names, which maintains uniform usage of place names throughout the federal government, voted to OK the name change during a meeting last
week. The move to change the name gained momentum last year as people complained it was culturally insensitive.
The original name dates back to at least the Civil War, when it's believed escaped slaves from a nearby plantation would swim across the creek to freedom on islands controlled
by Union troops, CNN affiliate WJCL reports.
State Sen. Lester Jackson sponsored a resolution last year to change the name of the creek, which Georgia lawmakers approved and was later signed by former Gov. Nathan
Deal. But the change wasn't official until the Board on Geographic Names gave its blessing to the new name.
I love how the new name reflects the same general idea, but without the bitter racism.
Usually the "muh offensive name" shit is nonsense, but in this case, yyyyyyyyyyeah fair enough.
Heh, funny how the meaning is the same
Makes you wonder, we have an entire neighborhood named bridge of whores, granted it's in Turkish but still, it's a bruh moment
It should be changed to "bridge of sexual enterprise".
Crossing of Pleasurable Business Opportunities?
I love these kind of stories. There was a really small village in Spain called Matajudíos, literally Jew Killer. The original name was Motajudíos or Jew Speck due to how small and arid it was and its jew population. It was literally comparing the place with a speck of dust. Anyway, at some point in time the name was mispelled in oficial records and thus it became Jew Killer for several years. Since the place was so small nobody noticed or cared about changing It until recently.
As a GA native, I had no idea this even existed..
Even so, I feel a name change is appropriate.
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