The name of Mt. Discovery has been changed to Mount Inez in honor of Inez Milholland. This is in time for 2020. This image shows the first officially renamed map at the U.S. Bureau on Geographic Names as of Dec. 12, 2019.
Federal review and approval comes after the Town of Lewis, New York gathered public input and then voted in October to make formal request to BGN. The town now also has road markers identifying sites associated with Milholland and her family who were local residents. Inez Milholland is buried in the nearby cemetery in the Town of Lewis beside her father, John Lewis. The graves overlook Mount Inez. The Mount Inez name change had already been approved by New York’s Committee on Geographic Names, a step taken as part of federal review.
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