Murry family honored in renaming of hill with former racist name
FRANKLIN — There’s a small, remote hill tucked back in the woods between the hamlets of Bloomingdale and Gabriels, with a name that’s troubled locals for a while … but no longer.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Board of Geographical Names officially approved the renaming of Negro Hill to Murry Hill, changing the name from a slur to the last name of a Black family who owned a portion of the hill around two-and-a-half centuries ago.
“The fact that we got the news during Black History Month was just dope,” Adirondack Diversity Initiative Executive Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher said. “Black history is happening in real time. It’s not just in the past. The fact that we got this news in February was just really wonderful. … My heart is just so full.”
There’s been a desire for decades to call the hill by a better name.
Read the full article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.