It is great having a mountain in your backyard

I love pulling in to my subdivision. Just as you turn in you have this up close and in person veiw of Sawnee Mountain.

According to my mother-in-law, it wasn't always a mountain. It was five feet short from being considered a "mountain". So, I guess it was "Sawnee Hill"?

Her 1st grade class didn't like that so the whole school, armed with wheelbarrows (and I'm sure some dads), trudged to the top of Sawnee Hill and piled up five feet of mountain-sized dirt.

Sawnee Mountain was born.