[Ads-l] antedating "panhandle"

[Bill Mullins]

1838 The Lynchburg Virginian 25 Jun 1/4 [genealogybank]

The pan handle of Virginia:  Soon may the long desired communication wither her Eastern brethren be accomplished.



1858 Dallas Weekly Herald 14 Aug 1/6

It would seem by the following article, which we find in the New York Journal of Commerce, that the 100th Meridian, which bounds the "Pan Handle" of Texas on the east, is over 42 miles further to the West than Capt. Marcy's calculation made it.

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Of a state.  MW: 1846

1839 (May 4) in Richmond [Va.] Whig and Public Advertiser (May 10) 1
[G.]:  Brooke county...the old pan handle.

I don't see a "panhandle of Texas" until 1868.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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