DENVER (AP) — There won’t be a peak in Colorado named Mount William & Mary.
Even though Colorado has peaks named after Yale, Princeton and Harvard, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has turned down a second attempt at naming a peak after a college in Williamsburg, Va.
Edwin Camp, who helped lead the charge against the proposal, says there is no direct connection between the college and Colorado.
Ken Kambis, a William & Mary professor who helped campaign for the name change, says there are a number of connections between the college and the state. He says one reason for naming the peak near Mount Elbert outside of Leadville involves Thomas Jefferson, who attended the college and was instrumental in acquiring the Jefferson Territory that included parts of what is now Colorado.
