The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is officially reverting to ...
Kuwohi, which translates to “mulberry place” in Cherokee, replaces Clingmans Dome, a name that honored Thomas Clingman, an ...
Great Smoky National Park team was proud to support this effort to officially restore the mountain and to recognize its ...
(WATE) — They say a mountain’s view is best after a hard climb, and Lavita Hill knows this all too well after more than two years of effort to restore the Cherokee name, Kuwohi, to the tallest peak in ...
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names has approved a formal request submitted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to change ...
The renaming caps an effort begun in 2022 by two enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Lavita Hill and ...
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Wednesday to officially change the name of the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains ...
on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is America’s most visited national park, and Kuwohi is one its most popular sites, with more than 650,000 visitors per year. The peak became known as Clingmans ...
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Wednesday in favor of the formal request submitted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee ...
The highest peak in the sprawling Great Smoky Mountains National Park is now called by its Cherokee name 'Kuwohi.' ...
The effort to change the name was led by Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who first settled the mountain in the Smokies ...
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years ...