Folk etymology in these parts is that the phrase has something to do with railroad entrepreneur Sam Hill (1857-1931), but if it was current in the early 1800s that shoots that down.
It fits him well, though. here (http://www.inetours.com/N_West/Maryhill_Museum/Maryhill.html") is a page about the museum he built in remote Eastern Washington (Maryhill). It talks about the connection with Queen Marie of Roumania, but doesn't mention the concrete replica of Stonehenge he built as the Klickitat County World War I monument. Really. Google it.
The French fashion dolls, which I'd seen a buncha times as my parents schlepped us out to Maryhill for one reason or another, made a big splash in Paris when they were "rediscovered" after being "lost" for so many decades. Whaddaya mean lost? They were right here, all the time....
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It fits him well, though. here (http://www.inetours.com/N_West/Maryhill_Museum/Maryhill.html") is a page about the museum he built in remote Eastern Washington (Maryhill). It talks about the connection with Queen Marie of Roumania, but doesn't mention the concrete replica of Stonehenge he built as the Klickitat County World War I monument. Really. Google it.
The French fashion dolls, which I'd seen a buncha times as my parents schlepped us out to Maryhill for one reason or another, made a big splash in Paris when they were "rediscovered" after being "lost" for so many decades. Whaddaya mean lost? They were right here, all the time....