Pierce County

Pierce County is the name of five counties in the United States:

  • Pierce County, Georgia
  • Pierce County, Nebraska
  • Pierce County, North Dakota (named after Gilbert Ashville Pierce)
  • Pierce County, Washington
  • Pierce County, Wisconsin

Famous quotes containing the words pierce and/or county:

    “For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
    And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fire,
    Show’d me the high, white star of Truth,
    There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
    Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
    What dost thou in this living tomb?”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “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)