Dewey County

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

  • Dewey County, Oklahoma
  • Dewey County, South Dakota

Famous quotes containing the words dewey and/or county:

    “Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)

    “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)