Hughes County

Hughes County is the name of two counties in the United States:

  • Hughes County, Oklahoma
  • Hughes County, South Dakota

Famous quotes containing the words hughes and/or county:

    “Brown sugar lassie,
    Caramel treat,
    Honey-gold baby
    Sweet enough to eat.
    Peach-skinned girlie,”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)