Chang and Eng Bunker used as early as October 1829 to describe other conjoined twins. Decades later use of the standalone "Siamese twins"—which modern researchers see as outmoded, preferring "conjoined twins"—became widespread. Thus Chang and Eng have often been retrospectively referred to as the "original Siamese twins". Before the Bunkers' bodies were returned to North Carolina for burial (in 1917 they were moved to the cemetery at White Plains Baptist Church outside Mount Airy), doctors took photographs of the connecting tissue and hired sculptor John Casani to make a plaster cast of the twins. The Bunkers' fused livers are preserved in fluid and displayed
Morristown Twins Morristown Twins The Morristown Twins (previously known as the Maryville-Alcoa Twins) were a minor league baseball team that played in the Class D and Class C Mountain States League from 1953 to 1954. They were originally located in Maryville and Alcoa, Tennessee, and played their home games at Hunt Field in Maryville. The Twins won the 1953 Mountain States League pennant by finishing the season in first place. In 1954, the Twins relocated to Morristown, Tennessee, where they became the Morristown Twins. The only Twins player to also play in Major League Baseball was Willie Kirkland who played his first