Since when is a bump 2740 feet above sea level a 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.
It’s barely a foothill, compare to the Rockies and Appalachians.
On most of the east coast. Mount Mitchell, Atlantic Highlands, NJ is all of 266 feet above sea level.
First of all, the peak in MD is actually 3075’.
Second of all, the Appalachians are MUCH OLDER than your Rockies, and have had time to wear down AND actually grow useful vegetation on them. They were actually much larger than the Rockies are now, ages ago.
Many of our peaks were the valleys of the original mountains. Look at the cut into Sideling Hill for a peak at how that might have looked.