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Black Mountain

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Black Mountain

Peak rising to 1,263 m/4,145 ft in the Big Black Mountains of the Cumberland Plateau, southeastern Kentucky, near Lynch, close to the Virginia border. It is the highest point in the state.

Black Mountain

Town in western North Carolina, 18 km/11 mi east of Asheville, in the Black Mountains; population (1990) 5,400. A resort centre, it also has hosiery and lumber mills. The town is best known as the site of Black Mountain College (1933–56), an experimental school that became a centre for 1950s avant-garde poets as well as for painters and other artists; the college was on Lake Eden, west of the town.
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At noon next day, as the pilot had foretold, we were so near to the Black Mountain that we saw all the nails and iron fly out of the ships and dash themselves against the mountain with a horrible noise.
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