On / December 12, 2007 CE, at 9:48 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> From Wikipedia (and I know this to be factual): Established in 1836
> as
> the county seat of Portersville, it was renamed to Valparaiso in 1837
> after Valparaíso, Chile, near which the county's namesake David Porter
> battled in the War of 1812.
I thought it had to have an unlikely story
>
>
>
> Most of us here just refer to it as "Valpo".
Tsk. And I thought "Valdeez" , Alaska was bad. :-)
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