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Hough Peak is a 4,400-foot mountain in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks, ranked 23rd in elevation and reached only by hikers traversing the rugged Dix Range crest. Long known as Middle Dix or Little Dix, it was first recorded climbed on August 31, 1921, by Bob and George Marshall and Herbert Clark during their campaign to summit every Adirondack peak above 4,000 feet. Its eventual name honored conservationist Franklin B. Hough after a prolonged dispute over whether it should be called Mount Marshall, a controversy shaped by objections to naming peaks for living people and by antisemitic opposition to the Jewish Marshall brothers.
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North Hudson, New York · United States
