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Place Description
Mount Holly Ferry

crossed the Catawba River in NW Mecklenburg into Gaston County.

Mount Ida

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

Mount Jefferson

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. Appears in local records as Nigger Mountain as early as 1810; name changed at the creation of the park. Original name given because of the black appearance of the weathered granite of which much of the mountain is composed. A cave near the top is said to have been used by slaves fleeing to Ohio before the Civil War. Alt. 4,683.

Mount Junaluska

See Jones Knob.

Mount Kephart

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.

Mount Leer

See Morrow's Turnout.

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 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.