The truck that went up a hill

Tom says that today trucks full of fill have been going back and forth on Berry Road up to Christmas Mountain all day. He assumes someone is building a new house up there and they are trying to level out a spot big enough for the McMansions that now dot what used to be Coon's Bluff.

It is hardly a mountain, so I thought maybe they are just following up on the idea from the movie, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. It was supposedly based on an actual incident in Wales in 1917 where the villagers of Taff’s Well (Ffynnon Taf in Welsh), upset that the English government claimed their nearby mountain was only a hill -- because it was less than the requisite thousand feet in height -- carried enough dirt up to pile into a mound of the top to make it qualify as the mountain they always had considered it. The English had first called it Garth Hill, but later revised the map to say "Ffynnon Garw Mountain - 1002 feet."

So I figure the resort development folks -- "Christmas Mountain is a Bluegreen Corporation Resort" -- are trying to sneak a mountain in where before it was just a hill. It seems the elevation at the summit is indeed 1,250 feet -- but that is above sea level. The base is at 1,000 feet-- making the "mountain" a whole 250 feet high.