The lyrics for "America the Beautiful" were written by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor, after she climbed to the top of Pikes Peak in 1893.
Potemkin village \puh-TEM(P)-kin\, noun:
An impressive facade or display that hides an undesirable fact
or state; a false front.
A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich
Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to
impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and
the Crimea in the 18th century.