Why Was NC Village of Wagram Named for Austrian Village? French Emperor Napoleon Inspired It
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I bet few residents of my hometown of Wagram, NC, population 850, consider themselves global citizens, but they are. A television reporter in the nation of Austria contacted me to ask why a village in North Carolina where I grew up was named for a village so far away, 4,712 miles away to be exact, in Europe, in the country of Austria? Did some Austrians…
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