Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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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. |