Download or read book Native American Place Names of Massachusetts written by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Massachusetts cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The current state of Massachusetts retains the name of the once inhabiting tribe, although its people were decimated by illness and disorganized by warfare around 1617. Massachusetts is a word meaning ""a hill in the form of an arrow-head.""

Download or read book Origin of Massachusetts Place Names written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Massachusetts Place Names of the State Counties Cities and Towns written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Origin of the Names of Towns in Massachusetts Settled Prior to A D 1775 written by William Henry Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Names of Places in Plymouth Middlebrough Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County Massachusetts written by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1973 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Origin of the Names of Towns in Massachusetts Settled Prior to A D 1775 Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society Etc written by William Henry WHITMORE and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Names of Places in Plymouth Middleborough Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County Massachusetts written by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Directory of Massachusetts Place Names written by Charlotte Pease Davis and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay on the Origin of the Names of Towns in Massachusetts written by William Henry Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England written by Frank Waabu O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New England, American Indian people have left their ancient footprints in many of the current names for mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, fish, cities, towns, and byways. The first English settlers, who put most of the American Indian words on the map, borrowed names from local tribes. In the process, they often misheard, mispronounced, or misreported what they heard - that is how the place Wequapaugset was given as Boxet or how Musquompskut became Swampscott. In many cases the Indian terms have changed so much over time that linguists are unable to recognize the original spelling and meaning. Others have tried their hand at translations, and have come up with fanciful interpretations that are incorrect, but that have stood the test of time. On the East Coast, the Native cultures and their Algonquian tongues had long faded before most scholarly studies began, so a great many translations of place names often represent a scholar's best guess. In this landmark volume, Dr. Frank Waabu O'Brien of the Aquidneck Indian Council, provides the first indigenous method and process for interpreting regional American Indian place names. Included is a dictionary of the most common misspellings, along with numerous examples of the Indian place names for Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Based on years of research, Understanding Indian Place Names is a landmark publication.

Download or read book American Names written by Henry Gannett and published by [Washington] Public Affairs Press [1947]. This book was released on 1947 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gannett was an American geographer who is described as the "father of mapmaking in America." He was the chief geographer for the United States Geological Survey essentially from its founding until 1902. He served as geographer of the U.S. censuses of 1880, 1890, and 1900, as well as the Philippine, Cuban, and Puerto Rican censuses. During this time, he became interested in place names. He was motivated to publish this alphabetical compilation of the origins of approximately 10,000 place names because it embodies so much local and general history. Gannett's efforts to resolve difficulties caused by proliferation, duplication, and confusion of place names led to the establishment of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names in 1890. He served as the board's chairman until 1910. He was also a founding member and president of the National Geographic Society.

Download or read book Interesting Place Names and History of America written by Emily Stehr and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting Place Names and History of America available on Amazon and Scribd! Toad Suck, Arkansas? Treasure Island, Florida? Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaug Lake, Massachusetts? Satan Pass, New Mexico? Bad Wound, South Dakota? Gun Barrel City, Texas? Walla Walla, Washington? If you are wondering where these names came from, this is the book for you! Other interesting place names included, plus interesting history of America! Available on Amazon as paperback for fee and FOR FREE IN ITS ENTIRETY at Scribd.com!

Download or read book The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town and the Development of Town Meeting Government Classic Reprint written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town, and the Development of Town-Meeting Government England, I found absolutely nothing in the case of this town (braintree) to support the theories referred to. While nu doubtedly, as Mr. Freeman has observed in another connec tion, the institutions of every one of the older Massachusetts towns are part of the general institutions of the English people, as those again are part of the general institutions of the Teutonic race, and those are again part of the general institu tions of the whole Aryan family yet, while a general re semblance, however striking, is in itself no evidence of descent, it is easy to give altogether too great weight to simili tudes and analogies. In approaching an investigation of this sort, therefore, it is well to bear in mind a remark of Sir Henry Maine in his first lecture on Village Communities, that it is the characteristic error of the direct observer of nu familiar social or juridical phenomena: to compare them too hastily with familiar phenomena apparently of the same kind; and Sir Henry further adds that the greatest cau tion must be observed in all speculations on the inferences derivable from parallel usages. But while the Braintree records afforded no support to re mote genetic theories, the examination of them soon made it apparent that, for reasons presently to be stated, Braintree was not one of the towns in the history of which the subject could be advantageously studied. It was equally clear that it could be studied only in the original records of some properly selected towns; for the indications all were that the advo cates of remote descent had fallen into the not uncommon error of looking too far afield for that which was in fact close at hand. Accordingly, in order to secure a sufficiently wide basis for generalization, I examined the original records, church as well as town, of Hingham, Weymouth, Dorchester, Ded ham, and Cambridge, as well as those of Boston. All of the towns named, organized prior to 1636, are among the original Massachusetts towns; and the evidence on the subject of the genesis of the town and town-meeting government, to be de rived from their records, it is the object of this paper to set forth in detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.