Nicknames On The Land (July/August 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 4)

Nicknames On The Land

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July/August 1991 | Volume 42, Issue 4

I’m sure Gerald Carson’s article on city nicknames in the April American Heritage will generate a lot of comment. My own favorite is the rural community of Tillamook on the northern coast of Oregon. Located on a large bay with a backdrop of dairy farms and the finest timber-growing land in the Coast Range, it is widely known as the “City of Cheese, Trees, and the Ocean Breeze.”