A federal agency requested and received a name change of a rural cul-de-sac in South Mobile County. Part of the rationale for the change is the word 'Rebel' and its historic connotations, the agency said.
The Bureau of Land Management , a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, recently requested and received approval on Monday for the name change from the Mobile County Commission.three months after the agency purchased 5.1 acres surrounding the cul-de-sac in June.Part of the reason for the name change, according to a BLM spokesperson, was the “historic connotations” of linking the word rebel with the Confederacy.
County officials have said since Monday that they had no idea about the federal agency’s concerns about the Rebel name. The name change drew no controversy, or any conversation during Monday’s commission meeting. He added, “Rebel Court was a private road. Those are not county maintained. It’s their private property. They wanted to change the name and I don’t have an objection to it. But they never mentioned anything about the historical significance of the road name to us.”Dueitt noted that BLM’s name-changing efforts do not extend beyond Rebel Court, where the adjacent Rebel Road runs for approximately two miles.
Dueitt said he was also uncertain to the cul-de-sac’s history, though he said it was initially built for future residential development. Dueitt said the previous owners – the Rainwaters family – might have had the cul-de-sac named after the adjacent Rebel Road.
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