Negro Mountain (Pa. and Md.)

found: Work cat: Negro Mountain, 2023:ECIP title page (Negro Mountain) Author's note (Negro Mountain, in the Allegheny Range of the eastern United States, is a long ridge that straddles the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and the Mason-Dixon Line. The ridge has been known as Negro Mountain since the late eighteenth century because of "an incident" that took place there in the 1750s; the ridge's name, however, has only been a matter of public controversy since the 1920s when the US Geological Survey declared Negro Mountain's highest point to be the highest point in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

found: GNIS, viewed March 3, 2023(name: Negro Mountain; Class: Range; Location: Somerset County - Pennsylvania; variant names: Negro Ridge; Negro Mount; Description: Located between Meadow Mountain and Winding Ridge in Garrett County, MD and Somerset County, PA;extends NE from Deep Creek Lake, MD to 2 mi. NE of the Casselman River in PA; NE end at 395416N, 0790428W, SW end at 393232N 0791959W; Reportedly named for a brave servant of Colonel Thomas Cresap, a pre-Revolutionary frontiersman whose party fought a group of Indians in a territorial battle; the servant died in battle. A proposal to change the name Negro Mountain to Black Hero Mountain was submitted in March 1992; the U.S. BGN rejected the proposal on 8 September 1994, siding with local and State government agencies who were against changing a longstanding name which was intended to honor a local individual)

found: Wikipedia, viewed March 3, 2023:English Negro Mountain page (Negro Mountain is a long ridge of the Alleghany Mountains in the eastern United States, stretching 30-mile (48 km) from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland north to the Casselman River in Pennsylvania. The summit, Mount Davis, is the highest point (3,213 feet) in Pennsylvania.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Mountain