Here you see Blue Hill across Blue Hill Bay in the Maine Town of Blue Hill, all of which were named in 1778 by European settlers of Plantation No. 5:
The actual Hill, which can appear blue in certain light, is a virtual mountain at 940 feet tall, just 60 feet short of what geologists originally considered a proper minimum height for a mountain.
Below you’ll see what European settlers called Green Mountain on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, a name the mountain kept until 1918. It then was named Cadillac Mountain to honor the French nobleman who originally was gifted the land by the governor of New France in 1688.
In 1919, Lafayette National Park was established on that land, an area that was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929. Cadillac Mountain is 1530 feet tall, the tallest mountain on the Eastern Seaboard. (Images taken in Blue Hill and from Brooklin, Maine, on April 20 and 21, 2023.)