Mount Mitchill

{{Short description|Mountain in New Jersey, United States}}

{{distinguish|Mount Mitchell (disambiguation)}}

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Mount Mitchill is located in Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Standing at {{convert|266|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}, it is the highest headland of the United States east coast south of Maine.[http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/coastalplain/coastalplain.htm NYC Regional Geology: Atlantic Coastal Plain]. USGS, 2003. Retrieved 2011-09-05. It has a panoramic view of Raritan Bay, New York City and Sandy Hook and is near the Twin Lights Lighthouse in Highlands. It is the location of the Monmouth County September 11th Memorial.[https://www.monmouthcountyparks.com/page.aspx?ID=2495 9/11 Memorial at Mount Mitchill], Monmouth County Park System. Accessed November 29, 2017. It was named after Samuel Latham Mitchill, who determined the height of the hill.Smith, Muriel J. [http://www.ahherald.com/columns-list/history-and-happenings/22991-mount-mitchill-fascinating-history-and-geology "Mount Mitchill - Fascinating History and Geology"], Atlantic Highlands Herald, September 22, 2016. Accessed November 29, 2017. "Mount Mitchill was named for Samuel Latham Mitchill, an 18th and 19th century physician, naturalist, and politician who earned his medical degree in Scotland, taught chemistry and natural history at Columbia College, as the present day university was known in the 1790s."