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Wabanaki Place Names of Western Maine Wabanaki Place Names of Western Maine Place names are clues for understanding the values and the activities that connect people to a place. Wabanaki peoples inhabit northern New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and their place names evoke a particular set of relationships to western Maine. Some names suggest Ü how people moved over the land or--more likely--over the Types of Place Names waters of Maine by describing the good portages and the (! dangerous rapids. Others mark good locations for gathering Water feature (! Land feature Parmachenee Lake or growing food. Some of these names are still used today. (! "across the usual path" Others have fallen out of use. All of them describe how Place for food or animals (! (! Kennebago Lake Wabanakis made this place their home. Portage "long pond" (! (! Boundary place Aziscohos Lake (! "small pine trees" Uncertain, no category Oquossoc (! "blue trout place" (! 0 5 10 20 Caratunk Falls (! Miles (! "crooked stream" Rangeley Cupsuptic River "closed up stream" (! Norridgewock (Madison) "where swift river descends" Molechunkemunk (Upper Richardson Lake) (! "deep water" (! (! Skowhegan (! Amascontee (Farmington) "watching place" Umbagog Lake (! "plenty of alewives" Skowhegan "clear water" Coos Canyon Podunk Pond (! Farmington "pine trees" (! "muddy place" (! Sebasticook River Rumford (! "almost through place" (! Arockamecook (Canton Point) Minnehonk Lake Waterville (! (! Mahoosuc Notch "corn-planting land" "place of hungry animals" "berry stream" Taconic (Waterville) (! "place to cross" (! (! Pennacook (Rumford) (! "foothills" Negwamkeag Pocasset Lake Messalonskee Lake (Kennebec River) "where stream widens" "white clay place" "sand bar" (! Cushnoc (Augusta) (! Augusta (! "head of tide" Nezinscot River Maranacook Lake "place of descent" (! "deep water" (! Keedumcook (Shepard Point) (! (! "gravel shallows" Pennesseewassee Lake Cobbosseecontee Lake (! "shining then fading light" Text Keewaydin Lake "plenty of sturgeon" Nehumkeag Pond "north wind" Norway (! "eel place" (! Kennebec River (! "long still water" Auburn Lewiston Sheepscot River Keoka Lake (! "river with many channels" "place of red clay" Androscoggin (! (Great Falls) "fish-drying place" See Inset (! (! Pigwacket (Fryeburg) Songo River (! "open, flat land" "where river flows out" Amirkangan (! (! (Lisbon Falls) (! (! (! (! (! "fish-drying place" Brunswick Bath (! (! (! (! Sebago Lake (! (! (! Pemaquid Point "big still water" "land running into the sea" Chebeague Island (! (! "almost separated" (! (! (! (! (! Monhegan Island (! "out to sea island" ! Watchic Pond ( Portland Casco Bay (! "at the mountain" "muddy bay" Presumpscot River Inset "rough ledges in river" Machegony (Portland) 5 Wiscasset "knee-shaped place" Miles Chisapeak (Merrymeeting Bay) "big salt bay" "hidden outlet" (! Inset Quabacook (Merrymeeting Bay) (! Wiscasset 3.5 "duck-hunting place" Whiskeag Creek ! Bunganut Pond ( Saco Miles "tidal stream" "boundary place" Saco River (! Chewonki Neck "where river flows out" "big ridge" N ! Sanford ( Pejepscot (Brunswick) (! Biddeford "long, rocky rapids" Wigwam (! e (! (! Whiskeag w Pejepscot Quamphegan Wigwam Point Hockomock (! Hockomock Bay (Salmon River Falls) (! e Bunganuc Brook "house or home" "hell gate" "dip-net falls" n "boundary place" H Kennebunk i (! Winnegance Bay "long cut bank" Winnegance "little portage" a (! a (! (! (! (! M m Ogunquit Sebascodegan Island "sandbar lagoon" f Maquoit Bay "almost through place" p "marsh place" o Malaga s (! Cape Neddick Erascohegan (! (! "solitary rock" f h Malaga Island Sagadahoc i l (! r u "cedar island" e (! G Erascohegan (Georgetown Island) "watching place" (! Sagadahoc (Kennebec River) Seguin Island "where river flows into sea" "high rounded island" This map presents the work of Bates College students in History s28 (Wabanaki History in Maine) in 2012, when it was taught by Micah Pawling and Donald Soctomah, and in 2014, when it was taught by Maria Girouard and Joe Hall. Map prepared April 2015 by Joe Hall with assistance from Matt Duvall and the Bates College Imaging Center..
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