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Negro Hill (Delaware County, New York)

Coordinates: 42°19′41″N 74°28′10″W / 42.32806°N 74.46944°W / 42.32806; -74.46944
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Negro Hill
Negro Hill is located in New York
Negro Hill
Negro Hill
Location of Negro Hill within New York
Negro Hill is located in the United States
Negro Hill
Negro Hill
Negro Hill (the United States)
Highest point
Elevation1,939 feet (591 m)
Coordinates42°19′41″N 74°28′10″W / 42.32806°N 74.46944°W / 42.32806; -74.46944[1]
Geography
LocationRoxbury, New York, U.S.
Topo mapUSGS Prattsville

Negro Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York northeast of Roxbury. Roundtop is located south-southwest, Clay Hill is located east and Ferris Hill is located northwest of Negro Hill.

Toponymy

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The hill was originally named Nigger Hill but was renamed Negro Hill in 1963, similar to hundreds of other places in the United States.[2] Like many of these places named by white Americans with a racial slur, the name was originally given because slaves, freed slaves, or free African-American people lived there.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Negro Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  2. ^ a b Tretter, Eliot M. (February 2011). "The Power of Naming: The Toponymic Geographies of Commemorated African-Americans". The Professional Geographer. 63 (1): 34–54. Bibcode:2011ProfG..63...34T. doi:10.1080/00330124.2010.537936. ISSN 0033-0124.