Historians believe Negro Mountain, which crosses the border into Pennsylvania, was named in the 1750s in honor of a black frontiersman who died in the French and Indian War while defending white ...

"Negro Mountain" is located in the Allegheny Mountain range, and Youngblood thinks it is time for a name change. Youngblood has teamed up with Maryland legislators on a campaign to change the ...

Negro Mountain is named for a hero. But legislation to rename it Mount Nemesis for an African-American scout who reportedly died while bravely defending a party of settlers against a Native ...

Negro Mountain is a 30-mile ridge in Maryland and southwest Pennsylvania “named for a brave servant” of “a pre-Revolutionary frontiersman whose party fought a group of Indians in a ...

People pull over and take pictures of the sign for a mountain ridge that runs from southwestern Pennsylvania into Maryland. Skip to content. NOWCAST Pittsburgh's Action News 4 at 9am Sunday.

Your shock is as big as ours if you’ve never heard of a place called “Negro Mountain.” But it is the real and current name of the peak of Alleghany Mountains, a 30-mile ridge that begins in ...

MEYERSDALE, Pa. (AP) — It’s an attention grabber, for sure. Enough so that people pull over along the highway and take pictures of the roadside sign.Negro Mountain.Negro Mountain is about a ...

The history of “Negro Mountain,” in Garrett County, Md. is a dubious one. The mountain, a 30-mile ridge of the Allegheny Mountains stretching North from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, to the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Philadelphia lawmaker is teaming up with one of her Maryland colleagues to lobby for the renaming of an Appalachian peak called Negro Mountain that sits on the line ...

Negro Mountain and other awkwardly named places in Pennsylvania. There are some questionably-named places around the state. One state representative has repeatedly introduced legislation to change ...

Bryant Bunch, who came from Prince George’s County to attend college here at the far end of the Maryland panhandle, first saw the sign on Interstate 68 while traveling with a carload of frien… ...

According to The Baltimore Sun, signs with elevation information for Negro Mountain, a portion of the Allegheny Mountains that stretches from Maryland to Pennsylvania, have been taken down by the ...