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Negro Mountain is a broad, high ridge in the Allegheny Mountains stretching from Maryland into Pennsylvania, with Mount Davis as Pennsylvania’s highest point. Its elevation and position on the Allegheny Plateau create a harsh climate and distinctive landscape, including stunted trees, rock formations, trails, and the abandoned Negro Mountain Tunnel. The ridge’s name is most firmly linked to fighting in 1756 during the French and Indian War, when a free Black man in Colonel Thomas Cresap’s party was killed and later honored in the place-name. It also became an important transportation corridor on Braddock Road, the National Road, and today’s U.S. Alternate Route 40, while its name remains publicly contested.
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