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Just ask Patricia Colman, a history professor at Moorpark College in Ventura County, Calif., who in 2004 thought that a small peak near Malibu, Calif., that for years had been known as Negrohead Mountain should be changed to Ballard Mountain, after the black homesteader who settled there.
NYT > Home Page By KIM SEVERSON 2011
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Just ask Patricia Colman, a history professor at Moorpark College in Ventura County, Calif., who in 2004 thought that a small peak near Malibu, Calif., that for years had been known as Negrohead Mountain should be changed to Ballard Mountain, after the black homesteader who settled there.
NYT > Home Page By KIM SEVERSON 2011
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A peak previously known as Negrohead mountain in southern
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This week, a peak in Southern California known as Negrohead - it had been changed from the more offensive word in the 1960s - was renamed Ballard Mountain after a former slave, and in Australia plans are afoot to rename Mount Niggerhead something less offensive.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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On manufactured tobacco: Cavendish and Negrohead, 4s.
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From the Arcturion, he had brought along with him a small half-keg, at bottom impacted with a solitary layer of sable Negrohead, fossil - marked, like the primary stratum of the geologists.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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What had long been designated on "Negrohead Mountain" on official maps is now "Ballard Mountain" in honor of John Ballard, who worked as a blacksmith and firewood vendor from his
Latest Articles LATimes 2010
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What had long been designated on "Negrohead Mountain" on official maps is now "Ballard Mountain" in honor of John Ballard, who worked as a blacksmith and firewood vendor from his
Latest Articles LATimes 2010
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