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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I had no idea that so many places were named after him. It's interesting that all (I think) of the first hits on Google, when I did a cursory search of his name, were about the little town in Mississippi. The mountain in Australia is certainly larger. More people might see the general's name from the street sign in _downtown_ Los Angeles than see it concerning the town in Mississippi. But the town gets all of the first few(?) hits. Being Winfrey's hometown probably helps.
Koscius(z)ko really must have been "somebody" in his day. I'm glad that Charles River Editors has, in effect, acknowledged that by creating this book about him. Thanks, Little.Egret, for posting it, and all of the CRE books that you do.
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Google hits are personalized so that those most relevant to the searcher (in Google's algorithm) come first. My guess is that a lot of southern-oriented searches plus your location, if you have it turned on, were as responsible as its being Oprah's hometown.
There's a full-length bio of Kosciuszko in published by Macmillan and he figures prominently in histories of the American Revolution, so I don't think he's been forgotten.