Mount Pisgah
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Mount Pisgah is the name of several mountains and places:
[edit] Mountains
- Mount Pisgah (Bible), the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time
- United States
- Mount Pisgah (Massachusetts) in the town of Northborough
- Mount Pisgah (North Carolina), along the Blue Ridge Parkway
- Mount Pisgah Academy, Candler, North Carolina
- Mount Pisgah (Oregon)
- Mount Pisgah (Vermont)
- Mt. Pisgah (Pennsylvania), in the "Endless Mountains"
- Mt. Pisgah State Park near Troy, Pennsylvania
[edit] Communities
- United States
- Mount Pisgah, Indiana
- Mount Pisgah (Iowa), a former settlement along the Mormon Trail that is now a state park, near Thayer, Iowa
- Jamaica
- Pisgah, a small farming community in St. Elizabeth Parish
[edit] Other uses
- Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery, Romney, West Virginia, USA
- The name is also used metaphorically in two ways: for a moment of spiritual clarity and revelation, and for a situation where a leader visualizes a future he may not live to see. It was in this latter metaphorical sense that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the phrase, “I've been to the mountaintop,” in the final paragraph of his speech of that title.[1]