Smith Mountain

Smith Mountain is a Mountain range in Northern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, it is the mountain for which Smith Mountain Lake gets its name.

Over thirty summits in the United States including:

  • Smith Mountain (Taconic Mountains), a peak in western Massachusetts.
  • Smith Mountain (Death Valley), a peak in Death Valley National Park in California.

Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or mountain:

    “A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
    —Alexander Smith (1830–1867)

    “He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)