| Mount Love | 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. |
| Mount Misery | 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. |
| Mount Mitchell | 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. |
| Mount Mitchell | community in S Mitchell County on East Fork Grassy Creek. |
| Mount Mitchell State Park | 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. |
| Mount Mourne | town in S Iredell County. Inc. 1875, but long inactive in municipal affairs. Settled prior to the American Revolution and took its name from the home of Rufus Reid, which Reid had named Mount Mourne for the mountain in Ireland. At Torrence's Tavern there, Lt. Col. Tarleton's British cavalry routed a force of American militia, February 2, 1781. Crowfield Academy, an early classical school about a mi. s, was est. 1760 and closed by the time of the Revolution. |
| Mount Nebo | See Nebo. |
| Mount Night | See Pores Knob. |
| Mount Noble | E Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, lat. 35°30'20" N., long. 83°20'15" W. |
| Mount Olive | community in N Columbus County. |