Stone Mountains

… a chain of mountains in W Ashe and Watauga Counties, N.C., and Johnson County, Tenn., from the Watauga River near lat. 36°17'30" N., long. 81°55' W., to the NW corner of North Carolina and thence into Virginia to Whitetop Mountain. They form the common boundary line of North Carolina and Tennessee. The name dates from as early as 1795.