According to Thomas R. Lord in Stories of Lake George: Fact or Fiction the mountain was named after a violent thunderstorm and forest fire, which occurred in the 1600s, which left the entire mountain a charcoal black. A map of Washington County published in 1853 annotated the peak as Black Mountain although an earlier 1829 map did not name the peak.

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