 The town held the name Waynesburg until 1860, when it was officially changed to Bloody Run.On or about the year 1875, at a borough election, the majority of voters adopted the new town name of Everett, after statesman and orator Edward Everett, one-time governor of Massachusetts and president of Harvard University, who is best known as the speaker opposite Abraham Lincoln at the reading of the Gettysburg Address.Today, there are many events and organizations named after this tributary.