Posted on 02/06/2011 5:01:36 PM PST by Viking2002
CUMBERLAND — Two local mountains need new names, a group of state senators say, and they want a commission created to select new monikers for Negro Mountain and Polish Mountain which “reflect more accurately the history and culture of the region within which they are located.”
None of the nine senators sponsoring Senate Joint Resolution 3 represent the region where the two mountains rise in the Allegheny Mountain range, with Negro Mountain in Garrett County reaching a height of 3,075 feet and Polish Mountain in Allegany County climbing 1,783 feet from sea level.
The senate resolution isn’t too popular with the legislators who do represent those who live on and near the mountains.
“It’s just asinine,” said Delegate Kevin Kelly. Kelly wondered why Polish Mountain ended up in the resolution. “I’m of Irish descent. We’d love to have a mountain named after us. Let’s rename it Irish Mountain,” he quipped. State Sen. George Edwards and Delegate Wendell Beitzel joined in the skepticism.
“I grew up on Negro Mountain and have a farm on Negro Mountain. I don’t know why people in the Baltimore area are so worried about it,” said Beitzel. The mountain, he said, was actually named in the language of the time in tribute to a black man’s heroism.
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Well so far the PC’ers are leaving the Maryland flag alone.
It has Civil War roots you know.
As for Negro Mountain and Polish Mountain, they are both visible along I-68, in the Maryland panhandle, the civilized part of the state which consistently votes Republican. We would offer to adopt them into our Commonwealth and give Maryland Philadelphia in exchange. Then we would change the names to Negro Hill and Polish Hill, because that's what they would be compared to real mountains up here north of the Mason-Dixon line.
3,075 feet? That's not a mountain, that's a hill. My house sits 2,000 feet higher than that and there are mountains towering thousands of feet above that.
Arizona did this a few years back with Phoenix’s Squaw Peak.
They changed the name to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, who died during a wrong turn ambush in Iraq.
Mountains? Those aren’t mountains, they are lumps of displaced earth by western standards.
They were once the tallest mountains in the world. Millions of years ago....
Look, when they consider renaming Baltimore Thug Central or Crime City or No Whiteys Allowed, then I'll be willing to accept a name change to the un-PC-named mountain.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
-PJ
It’s also called Negro Mountain in Pennsylvania.
Mt. Davis is the highest point in Pennsylvania at 3213 feet. It is part of Negro Mountain.
Yeah, I know, 3213 is not really a “mountain,” but it’s the best we got here in Pa.
We have gaps exceeding 3200 feet
I’m actually surprised they haven’t been changed sooner, in many states they would have.
At what point in my post did I convey the 'mine is bigger than yours' meme? It is merely an image of a sign I have passed many times on I-68. Had you bothered to click on my FReeper name, you would see that we are neighbors. Perhaps your "comedy" gene has been replaced with a "chip-on-the-shoulder" gene.
‘Two local mountains need new names, a group of state senators say, and they want a commission created to select new monikers for Negro Mountain and Polish Mountain which “reflect more accurately the history and culture of the region within which they are located.”’
OMG!!!!
Polish Mtn - you can’t mess with 1 of the key mountains on the I68 thruway! How can you rename something used as a major landmark literally ON your journey?
Jackasses. I wonder what my relatives and friends up there think of this (I know what 1 of them will). Hope they know about it!
As for Negro - I don’t know that 1. Never heard of it - but I never went much to Garrett. However, going to Dan’s Mtn and Grantsville and Lonaconing sometimes, I still never heard it nor from my relatives.
‘...a member of his volunteer rangers during the French and Indian War, acted heroically during a battle with Indians, and in fact saved Cresap’s life. .....
‘“I suggest and recommend the name of Negro Mountain remain unchanged, as it is named in honor of a brave black frontiersman, one of the earliest “free” black frontiersman on record in American colonial history serving the cause of liberty against British tyranny,’
Well, this was stupidly stated. In the F&I, they WERE NOT “fighting against Brit tyranny”, but FOR it. LOL
They are much, much older than those western mtns; hence have worn down more.
“are both visible along I-68”
Actually, you drive right through Polish Mtn on 68.
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