Note the name on the map for Lake Tahoe. Wikipedia claims name persisted until as late as 1945.
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Lake Tahoe would be known today as Bigler Lake if not for the efforts of Brentwood-area resident Robert Garwood Dean........... Dean led the effort to change the lake’s name because of the pro-slavery, pro-Southern posture of its original namesake, Gov. John Bigler.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/2009 08:17PM by Frank Furter.