The effort to change the name was led by Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who first settled the mountain and consider it sacred.

18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped ... Denali National Park and Preserve (previously Mount McKinley) Black Elk Peak, Black Hills National Forest ...

18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped ... Denali National Park and Preserve (previously Mount McKinley) Black Elk Peak, Black Hills National Forest ...

The new ambulances, built on F550 truck chassis, will be red and black ... from the white, orange and blue ambulances that ...

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names on Wednesday voted to change the name of the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi ... in response to the alleged murder ...

After years of efforts to change the name of Clingmans Dome back to its Cherokee name, the highest peak in the Smokies is ...

Kuwohi, which translates to “mulberry place” in Cherokee, replaces Clingmans Dome, a name that honored Thomas Clingman, an ...

The first name change happened in 1859, when Arnold Guyot, a geographer and professor, named the area after Clingman.