Alabama Hills and the Sierra Nevada
One more image from the Alabama Hills, this a morning shot looking east toward the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
The Alabama Hills were named for the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the American Civil War. When news of the ship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the Confederates, they named many mining claims after the ship, and the name came to be applied to the entire range. When the Alabama was finally sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, a mountain pass, a mountain peak, and a town after the Kearsarge.
We are home, so I hope to catch up with everyone over the next couple of days.
Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2019
Alabama Hills and the Sierra Nevada
One more image from the Alabama Hills, this a morning shot looking east toward the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
The Alabama Hills were named for the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the American Civil War. When news of the ship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the Confederates, they named many mining claims after the ship, and the name came to be applied to the entire range. When the Alabama was finally sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, a mountain pass, a mountain peak, and a town after the Kearsarge.
We are home, so I hope to catch up with everyone over the next couple of days.
Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2019