{{The Pentagon is changing the name of the military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, reversing a decision made by a congressionally mandated commission to rename bases that honor Confederate generals.
The Army base will be renamed Fort Bragg, but it will honor a different Bragg than its original namesake, Gen. Braxton Bragg, who fought for the Confederacy. Instead, it will honor Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, who was awarded a Silver Star for actions during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, according to a memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. }}
This is a case where they’re not getting what they voted for. Will they notice? {{ LOL }}
We have a small fishing village, town here, Fort Bragg, I doubt many know it;s origins, but at least, for now they never changed it…
Prehistory
The North Coast of Mendocino County was inhabited by Native Americans of the Pomo tribe for approximately 10,000 years. The Pomo people were hunter‐gatherers with a close relationship to the land and the sea. Seasonal Native American villages were located along the coast with permanent villages located north of Ten Mile River.
Fort Bragg Military Outpost (1857-1861)
In 1855, an exploration party from the Bureau of Indian Affairs visited the area in search of a site on which to establish a reservation and, the following year, the Mendocino Indian Reservation was established. It spanned an area from the south side of the Noyo River to north of the Ten Mile River, and east to Little Valley and Glen Blair. In 1857, the Fort Bragg military post was established on the Mendocino Indian Reservation approximately 1.5 miles north of the Noyo River, its purpose was to maintain order on the reservation. Also in 1857, a lumber mill was established on the Noyo River starting what would become the major industry of the region. The military post was short‐lived, and records show that November 23, 1861 was the last date on which army units occupied the fort. In 1865, after 300 Native Americans were marched forcibly from the Mendocino Indian Reservation to a reservation in Round Valley, Fort Bragg as a military post was abandoned.
City of Fort Bragg
On August 5, 1889, Fort Bragg was incorporated as a city. C.R. Johnson, president of the Fort Bragg Redwood Company, was the first mayor. His company laid out the town much as it exists today; with a uniform street grid and mid-block alleys. In 1893, the Union Lumber Company was created by absorbing some of the smaller lumber companies in the area.
I drove through there years ago. I was wondering where the huge Army base was.
Google tells me that there was a small military base in Fort Bragg, CA in the mid 1800’s to control the native population. And that one was named for the Confederate General. (click on link.)
And in west Texas we find the Fort Davis National Historical Site named after Jefferson Davis. It escaped name changing because Davis was Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857.
Hey DB, doesn’t the arbitrary nature of this concern you at all?
If a POTUS can rename a body of water, and a Sec Def can rename a base, all without any oversight or approval, what keeps the next POTUS from doing the same?
How about Ft Benning (in GA) being renamed Ft Kamala?
Or the Gulf of Buttigieg.
How about the Grand Canyon being called Pelosi Canyon?
TI cannot change geographic names by fiat. His attempt should provoke laughter more than outrage, and laughter is the response here in Mexico. Oh, and in Canada, Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and Antarctica.
He is brilliant at few things, but absurdly mouthing off in ways that make USAians go nuts with applause or shrieks of absurd pain…. what a weird talent.
Twelve years later, Hoover was vindicated when House Resolution 140 was introduced and passed by the 80th Congress. The resolution read, in part, “as President, Herbert Hoover took an active part in settling the engineering problems and location of the dam in Black Canyon…” and noted that “the construction contracts were signed under his administration, and when he left office construction had been pushed to a point where it was more than a year ahead of schedule.” On April 30, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the resolution and restored the name Hoover Dam to the structure.
Congress eventually determined the name and prior executive fiat led to this back and forth renaming of the site - just like we are now likely to see absent Congressional action.
Changing the name of the base (which was approved by Congress) and changing the name of the Gulf is an invitation to future admins doing the same without any restraint.
Now that inflation is under control, food prices are way down, and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are over, the guy has to do something with all that free time.
