Английская Википедия:Choccolocco, Alabama
Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox settlement Choccolocco is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,804.[1] It was founded in 1832.
The name Choccolocco is an anglicization of the Creek words "chahko lago" ("big shoals") or "choko rakko" ("big house"); sources vary.[2][3]
The community gained brief notoriety in 2001 when The Daily Show aired a piece on the "Choccolocco Monster",[4] a part of local folklore concerning sightings of a mysterious creature in the area in the late 1960s. An October 2001 article in the Anniston Star newspaper revealed that the creature was, in fact, local resident Neal Williamson. As a teenager, Williamson would don his costume (consisting of a cow skull and a sheet) and gain the attention of passing cars by jumping out of the woods onto the roadside, often startling motorists.[5]
Demographics
Шаблон:US Census population Choccolocco first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as a town, but did not appear again until 2010 when it was made a census-designated place (CDP).
See also
References
Шаблон:Calhoun County, Alabama Шаблон:Coord
Шаблон:CalhounCountyAL-geo-stub
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