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:

    “At night thousands of names and slogans are outlined in neon, and searchlight beams often pierce the sky, perhaps announcing a motion picture premiere, perhaps the opening of a new hamburger stand.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)