On the south slope of Mount Princeton is a series of bluffs known as the Chalk Cliffs. The cliffs are not actually chalk, but rather crumbling quartz monzonite. The white cliffs inspired the Wheeler Geological Survey to give the mountain its original name, "Chalk Mountain."
It is believed that the surveyor Henry Gannett named the mountain Mount Princeton sometime before 1873.
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