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Push is on to change name of Negro Bill Canyon near Moab

Last updated Monday, November 26, 2012 - 12:15am

SALT LAKE CITY — Louis Williams cringes every time he tells Moab visitors the name of the canyon with the great hike to a stunning arch: Negro Bill Canyon.

Williams, a window cleaner who has lived in Moab for 14 years, is leading a renewed campaign to change the name of the Southern Utah canyon that he and others believe is inappropriate.

He has posted an online petition that has garnered more than 600 signatures and plans to submit a formal renaming application to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.

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Looking down at Negro Creek, April 22, 2012, as it winds through Seatonville. Negro Creek twists and turns through De Pue and Seatonville Illinois. On one road in Seatonville where the road passes over the creek there is a small plaque bearing the name. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Debate over Negro Creek's name turns neighborly

Ted Gregory Chicago Tribune

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 12:02pm

SEATONVILLE, Ill. -- Phillip Mol is pushing to change the name of a narrow, meandering creek that was given its official title about the time Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

The brook is Negro Creek, one of 15 geographic places in Illinois with Negro in its name. Flowing into the Illinois River about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, the stream drifts along a peaceful, 11-mile path amid farms and small towns of Bureau County.

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