At 8:40 AM 8/12/01, belinda melton hughes wrote: >Would love to know how Mount Hardy got it's name!!!! > According to Powell's NC Gazetteer, it was named in 1957-58 for Dr. James F.E. Hardy of Asheville NC, who explored and named many of the mountains of western North Carolina in the 1850s. It was formerly called Black Mountain. Elizabeth Harris NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://users.erols.com/fmoran/