>By ANDREW SCHOTZ
andrews@herald-mail.com
9:23 p.m. EDT, March 29, 2011
ANNAPOLIS— Legislation to name things in Maryland — including renaming two mountains — has come to a halt.
A state Senate committee decided Tuesday to turn down a series of bills requesting days and months honoring groups and individual people.
Also rejected was a resolution to change the names of Negro Mountain in Garrett County and Polish Mountain in Allegany County.
Sen. Lisa A. Gladden, D-Baltimore City, who is black, had sponsored the resolution to find new names “to reflect more accurately the history and culture of the region within which they are located.”
Western Maryland lawmakers took umbrage, arguing that Negro Mountain was named to honor a courageous black man killed fighting Indians in the 1750s. Polish Mountain initially was Polished Mountain and had nothing to do with ethnicity, they said; the name was shortened and pronunciation changed over the years.
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