Posted on 11/03/2019 5:19:29 PM PST by Viking2002
How about John Casor Mountain?
New Hampshire is going to have to rename the White Mountains.
We actually have a Lover’s Leap on Wills Mountain in the Narrows. Google it. Interesting versions of the story.
What was it called before it was Negro Mountain?
Up here in the northwest corner of North Carolina, we have a mountain that was originally named “Nigger Mountain”. Later, it became “Negro Mountain”. Still later — and currently — it was named the less offensive “Mount Jefferson”.
Just adjacent to Mount Jefferson is “Mulatto Mountain”, which hasn’t been changed.
Go figure...
Cracker mountain.
It’s a mountain when you have a half mile of dense hardwood trees on a 120 degree downhill grade between you and the bottom. Which you won’t be alive to see if you slip. None of this ‘Oooo, it’s the Rockies!’ BS where it’s as bald as a newborn’s ass. You fall off a mountain back home, you stay fallen, until some hunter finds your bear-gnawed bones under a canopy of oak trees two years later.
“you can bet your sweet bippy”
HA HA!
Sock it to Me!
For that, you’d have to ask one of the various Indian tribes who fought with the French during the French and Indian Wars. Only they know what they called it before the British captured the territory.
“...some people feel the signage was inappropriate.”
Guess who...
It’s barely a foothill, compare to the Rockies and Appalachians.
In Jefferson, North Carolina there is Mount Jefferson. It used to be called Nigger Mountain. There is still Mulatto Mountain near there.
Watch out. Assawoman Bay is next.
Yeah, been there every trip to O.C. I’ve ever made. I was always wondering why they didn’t try to tilt that windmill long before now. You maybe shouldn’t have mentioned it, though. Hand to God, I think there are lurkers here just looking for ideas to create a new solution for a non-existent problem.
why are people afraid of the past?....acknowledge it and move on....learn from history.....
It’s a matter of perception. The east counts a deers horns as points on both sides, the west just one side. My house is 4800 feet above sea level and mountains are higher, much higher sometimes. We have sqaw creek, bear creek, deer creek, yada yada yada. I just figure it is what it is, and keep on trucking. I hunt in “notellthem canyon”. My story and I’m sticking to it.
Just for the record, I never called it by that name.
There is a book at the ADDISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ADDISON , PA..
that has the History of Negro Mountain...
A wonderful read, as State Rt #40 is the NATIONAL RD. and good History on the settlement of that area in the 1800 and very early 1900...
The sign NEGRO MOUNTAIN at the entrance on the east side of the Rt.40 was still there a week ago...I pass if often after church on Sunday as we go out for breakfast..
North Carolina also has the beautiful PILOT MOUNTAIN...A stone mountain ...I love to see that on my many trips to visit my son who lives in that area...
NC is so nice and clean and roads in excellent condition...very nice State...
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