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:

    “Pike, three inches long, perfect
    Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
    Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
    They dance on the surface among the flies.”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    “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)