crossed the Catawba River in NW Mecklenburg into Gaston County.

central McDowell County at the S limits of the town of Marion. Alt. approx. 2,000. Named for Ida Neal.

SE of and named for town of Jefferson in central Ashe County. State park of 474 acres is maintained there for sightseeing and picnicking; created 1956. Original name, given because of the black appearance of the weathered granite of which much of the mountain is composed, appears in local records as early as 1810. Name changed at the creation of the park. A cave near the top is said to have been used by slaves fleeing to Ohio before the Civil War. Alt. 4,683.

See Jones Knob.

in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line, lat. 35°38' N., long 83°24' W. Named in 1928 for Horace Kephart (1862-1931), explorer, naturalist, and authority on campcraft who lived in the area for many years. Alt. 6,400. Mount Collins, nearby, bore the name Mount Kephart for a short while. The Jump Off, on the Tennessee side of Mount Kephart, was formerly believed to be in North Carolina. A cliff there drops vertically for almost 500 ft. and then nearly vertically for an additional 1,000 ft.

See Morrow's Turnout.

in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line, lat. 35°33'30" N., long. 83°30' W. Named by Arnold Guyot before 1860 for Dr. S. L. Love (1828-87), who accompanied T. L. Clingman and S. O. Buckley in 1858 when Clingmans Dome was first measured. Alt. approx. 6,500.

appears on the Collet map, 1770, as a large sand hill N of Eagle Island in W New Hanover County. A ferry across the Cape Fear River was operated there from as early as 1754 and possibly through the Revolution.

S Yancey County in Black Mountains. Alt. 6,684, the highest peak in E United States. Formerly known as Black Dome but renamed for Professor Elisha Mitchell (1793-1857) of the University of North Carolina, who fell to his death nearby while trying to verify his claim that it was the highest mountain E of the Mississippi. Known by the Cherokee Indians as Attakulla. See also Mitchell Falls.

S Yancey County. Covers 1,224 acres. Est. 1915 as the first state park in North Carolina. Scenic area, tent camping, picnicking, hiking, nature study, museum, recreation lodge, and lookout tower.