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Indian Place Names of New England, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation; O'Brien, Frank Waabu (2010). Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England. Colorado: Bauu Press. Trumbull, James H. (1881). Indian Names of Places, etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them.
Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts [1] (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, also known as Webster Lake, is a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts. It is located near the Connecticut border and has a surface area of 1,442 acres. Since 1921, the lake has also been known by a much longer name having 45 letters comprising fourteen syllables: Lake ...
FIPS code. 25-05805. GNIS feature ID. 0618217. Website. www.town.billerica.ma.us. Billerica (/ bɪlˈrɪkə / ⓘ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 42,119 according to the 2020 census. [2] It takes its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.
This reservation was sold in 1870, following the passage of the Massachusetts Indian Enfranchisement Act the year prior, forcing the tribe to disperse and assimilate into the surrounding communities. [1] The Webster/Dudley Band incorporated in 1981. Private land in Webster, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut is used by the group as its ...
With the longest name of any geographic feature in the United States, this lake near the Massachusetts-Connecticut border is sure to trip up most who try to pronounce it.
Naumkeag is a historical tribe of Eastern Algonquian -speaking Native American people who lived in northeastern Massachusetts. They controlled most of the territory from the Charles River to the Merrimack River at the time of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640). Naumkeag is also the term for a Native American settlement at the ...
How to pronounce “Worcestershire” The sauce, while based on a recipe used in India, did not grow popular in the west until marketed by Lea and Perrins. As such, it has retained the name they ...