The highest point on the Appalachian Trail was for a long time officially named Clingmans Dome, after Thomas Clingman, a Confederate general who had surveyed the mountain before the Civil War.
On September 18, the National Park Service announced the restoration of the mountain's Cherokee name, Kuwohi: https://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/news/kuwohi-name-restored-to-the-highest-peak-in-the-smokies.htm
Its Wikipedia article was retitled the following day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwohi
I expect the Library of Congress heading will change too, but that's a slower process.
John Mark Ockerbloom /
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