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Yellowstone peak renamed: Old name 'offensive,' park service says

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View of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, US, on June 19, 2020. (Photo by Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The National Park Service announced last week that Yellowstone National Park's Mount Doane would be renamed First Peoples Mountain.

The agency said Thursday the change was taken to remove an "offensive name" from America's first national park.The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted unanimously, 15-0, affirming the decision.

The Wyoming mountain stands at 10,551 feet east of Yellowstone Lake. US NATIONAL PARKS PHASING OUT PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE SALESThe mountain was previously named after explorer Gustavus Doane.

Born in Illinois in 1840, Doane grew up in California and attended the University of the Pacific at Santa Clara before enlisting in the "California Hundred," a federal volunteer unit absorbed by the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry.After attaining the rank of sergeant by 1864, he resigned to accept a commission as lieutenant with the first regiment, Mississippi Marine Brigade, according to Montana State University.After the Civil War, Doane was appointed mayor in Yazoo City Mississippi in 1867.A year later, he applied for a commission with the army and was appointed second lieutenant in the Second U.S.

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