This 30-mile ridge running from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland to the Casselman River in Pennsylvania. Named to honor a brave black frontiersman, Nemesis, who died to save the lives of the rest of his party, including Colonel Thomas Cresap during the French and Indian War.

Proposals have been submitted in the past to change the name.  A proposal to change the name Negro Mountain to Black Hero Mountain was submitted in March 1992; the USBGN rejected the proposal on 8 September 1994, siding with local and State government agencies who were against changing a long-standing name which was intended to honor a local individual.  Proposals by Maryland state Sen. Lisa Gladden in 2011 to change the name to Nemesis and by Pennsylvania Rep. Rosita Youngblood and Pennsylvania Rep. Seth Grove were also rejected.

While the naming of the mountain may have been intended as an honor to the hero, the use of the term, Negro, is now outdated, at best.  The fact remains that the hero had a name - Nemesis - and we should honor him and our history by changing the name of the mountain to Nemesis Mountain so that the story of this brave hero can live on as an individual and not as an unknown and nameless servant.