Talk:Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

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)

Requested move 15 August 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Move. No objections after 9 days. Cúchullain ^t/c 15:11, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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• Brice's Cross Roads National Battlefield Site → Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
• Battle of Brice's Cross Roads → Battle of Brices Cross Roads

– The page for the battlefield site was moved from the proposed name to its current name in 2018 to reflect the official name in the National Register of Historic Places. However, both the current NRHP entry here and official National Park Service site here use the form without the apostrophe. The page for the battlefield site should use the official name used by the NPS. Additionally, given the above, the page for the battle itself should be similarly moved. It seems like both forms of the name are used, but I argue for deference to the NPS given the extent to which they strive to be historically accurate. Mdewman6 (talk) 21:12, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Y Done Battle of Brices Cross Roads. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)