We (upstate NY) have one too out in Allegany County (southeast of Buffalo near the PA border). Thank the surveyor of this area, Simeon DeWitt, and his love of 'ancient Roman Mythology.'
Our Cuba is as the first place oil was sighted in North America (1627). I was attending a hydrofracking lecture/discussion last week and they said it was the site of the first oil seep seen on the
continent.
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Did you know there is Cuba Alabama ; a sleepy cross roads named so after the rough riders took San Juan hill; and not far from Gordo Alabama (named for the mexican fort ) taken by Mclelland
; Robert E Lee and Jeff Davis in central mexico 1848
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