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Negro Hill
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Highest point
Elevation	1,939 feet (591 m)
Coordinates	42°19′41″N 74°28′10″W / 42.32806°N 74.46944°W / 42.32806; -74.46944
Geography
Location	Roxbury, New York, U.S.
Topo map	USGS 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

The hill was originally named Nigger Hill but was renamed Negro Hill in 1963, similar to hundreds of other places in the United States. 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.

References

1. "Negro Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
2. ^ 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.

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