GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...

The highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is no longer named after a Confederate general. Following lobbying from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the U.S. Board of Geographic ...

The Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak will be renamed Kuwohi, restoring its original Cherokee name after over 150 years. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names approved the change, requested by the ...

Gatlinburg, Tenn. — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The ...

The new name for the site in Great Smoky Mountains National Park means “mulberry place.” Clingmans Dome is no more, as federal authorities on Wednesday approved affixing the Cherokee name Kuwohi to ...

Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misidentified Jared Wheatley as a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Wheatley is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The highest ...

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Wednesday to officially change the name of the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park back to its Cherokee name. The Eastern Band of Cherokee ...