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DEACON JUDD'S KILNS: 1716- " On Spruce brook, as they go to Wooster swamp." These kilns were perhaps for drying grain. It is sometimes "Cills," but never written "kill."
JUDD'S MEADOWS-The ancient name of the region that is now Nauga- tuck. The name probably antedates the settlement of Mattatuck, and the Judds probably cultivated the meadows there during the time that Farmington men had the right to improve lands beyond their own boundaries.
KILL PLAIN, CILL PLAIN, KILN PLAIN-It is mentioned very early as Kill plain-certainly in 1715-and is the level ground lying between Wigwam swamp and Hikcox swamp on the road to Buck's hill. It borders Wigwam swamp on the southeast and the name suggests a san- guinary Indian conflict on the plain be- side the swamp. The little settlement, sometimes called Pearsallville, now occu- pies Kill plain. Obadiah Scott (son of George) was living on it in 1724; Joseph Judd in 1729.
LEAD MINE BROOK, THE EAST BRANCH-The East Branch of the Nau- gatuck river, in distinction from the West Branch. It enters the river at English Grass meadow between Thomaston and Fluteville.
LEWIS'S HILL - Named from the first Joseph Lewis. He loaned the town money to contest its boundary line with Wallingford and was repaid by receiving eighty acres on this hill. His son lived for a time at the base of it. It is northwest from the highest part of Twelve-Mile hill. The railroad passes over it at a point 600 feet above the sea. Also, that still higher land beyond where William Tyler lives on Buck's hill was known as Lewis hill. It was early named from Joseph Lewis, who owned it before he removed to Judd's meadows. It gradually lost his name and became known as " The World's End."
LILY BROOK-April 14, 1753, this brook was called the East Branch of the
Mad river, and, in the same year, it was given the name of Lily brook. It enters from the eastward at a very sharp turn of the river, where the river's channel looks like a canal. It is near the north end of Bald hill.
LINDLEY BROOK-Enters Mad river from the east at Philip's meadow, north of Woodtick. See p. 218.
LITTLE BROOK- Rises west of Burnt hill and unites with Great brook near the centre of the city.
LITTLE MOUNT TOBE-East of Mount Tobe.
LOG TOWN-In Prospect between East mountain and Hopkins hill, near George's hollow, and east of the Indian well.
LONG HILL-East of the city ex- tending from Mad river to Jeremy's brook.
THE LONG LAND, THE SLIP 1700 -The land included in the western curve made by the river at Platt's mills, in which lay nearly all of the Plattsville School district of 1852.
LONG MEADOW-See p 240.
LONG MEADOW FALLS-In the Naugatuck, opposite Hopeville.
LONG MEADOW BROOK-It rises in the Quassapaug region, runs through Bedlam meadow and unites with Toantic brook near the western foot of Twelve- Mile h111.
LONG SWAMP-On the old Straits turnpike in the eastern part of Middle- bury near the Waterbury line, and just below Watertown line.
LOTHROP HILL-See page 358.
MAD MEADOW - Below the Mad river junction with the Naugatuck. The name covered a long line of meadow land, through which South Main street extends.
MAD MEADOW HILL-East of Mad meadow.
MALMALICK, MALMANICK-The noble elevation southwest of Town Plot
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on which one of the Warners received a grant of land at an early date, causing the name "Warner's Good Hill" to appear on our records. It was later settled by descendants of Deacon Thomas Clark and was possessed by them for several generations. Hans Rasmussen is now the chief owner of the lands on the hill. His brother, Ras- mus Scott Rasmussen, also has extensive greenhouses on Malmalick. They belong to the first family of Danes that came to Waterbury, consisting of James Peter Rasmussen, his wife and their seven children. They came from Copenhagen in 1884.
MANHAN MEADOW - The island meadow formed by the river and a line of coves formerly extending from Lake Hubbard to Hop meadow, and supposed to have been the former bed of the river.
MANHAN NECK, OR MUNHAN- NOCK-The southern extremity of Man- han meadow where the first gardens were. This name is spelled according to the fancy of the recorder, "Munhan, Minhan, Mahan," and soon became simply "the Neck."
MANHAN NECK HILL-The round hill in Manhan meadow, around which the first settlers had their gardens, after the manner of the settlers of Plymouth colony. It lies in the line of Hop Meadow hill, divided from it by the stream and coves which lay between them. The name is supposed to have been Munhan- nock hill.
MANTOE'S HOUSE, MANTOE'S HOUSE ROCKS- Northwest of the stone house where Charles Terrill lives- formerly the Thomas Judd house on the east side of Buck's hill. Elijah and Philena Richards sold to Abraham Prichard six acres between Chestnut hill and Mantoe's House rock. In 1801 he had a house there, which he sold in I803.
MESHADDOCK MEADOW-In Mid- dlebury. East of Bedlam hill, and north of Sandy hill.
MESHATTUCK MEADOW - This meadow, between Gunntown and Hop swamp, is also called Meshaddock, Shad- dock and Shattuck, and perhaps was Mequenhattuck.
MIERY SWAMP-In Middlebury.
MOSS'S ROAD, 1770-" A former high- way called Moss's road." The present town line between Middlebury and Naug- atuck is a portion of the Moss (some- times Morse) road. The origin of the name has not been learned.
MOOSE HORN BROOK-A branch of the West Branch.
MUDDY GUTTER - Mentioned in 1705. Simeon Scott lived in 1799 at "a place called Muddy Gutter." Zebulon and Benjamin Scott owned land near it, also Richard, John, and Titus Welton.
MULBERRY HILL - Southeast of Naugatuck.
NAGAUTUCK-Probably the Indian name of the river, but not in general use before 1800.
NED'S NEW MOUNTAIN, ED- MUND'S NEW MOUNTAIN-On the Bunker Hill road, west of Warner's moun- tain.
NEW CONNECTICUT- Spindle hill and vicinity. In the west part of Wol- cott.
NEWELL HILL-From Thomas Newell, the planter. It is now Spencer hill.
NICHOLS' PARK, THE PARK, THE PARK GATE, THE PARK FENCE, THE CRANK OF THE PARK-Before 1750 persons in the col- ony had erected parks or enclosures for keeping and preserving deer. The Gen- eral Court approved of these parks and made most stringent and effective laws for the preservation of the deer within them, and of the fences, gates and bars pertaining to them. Seven pounds, be- side the price of the deer, was the pen- alty for coursing, chasing, hunting or wounding any buck, doe or fawn kept in any park. For throwing down any fence
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whereby they might escape, the penalty was thirteen pounds, beside any damage that might accrue thereby.
We find mention, in Waterbury, in 1750, of The Park, also of "The Park fence " and " The Park gate "-leaving no doubt regarding the fact that at that date the region familiarly known as the Park was used as a deer park.
It contained more than three hundred acres, and remains to this day a wild, rugged region, almost untouched by the hand of man. It has had an interesting history. Much of it remains in the realm of tradition, but numerous facts may be gleaned from the records. There was an ancient highway laid out through it in 1716, known as the Stone path. It merits its name, and can still be found without difficulty. It began at the road west of "Westwood" (which in 1729 formed a part of the Litchfield road, and before that period the course of the Common fence) and ran to the Nichols' Farm road, now the Bunker Hill road. The Park road, surveyed in 1763, runs through a section of it. There was also a " way " from the Stone path to the point where the Park road enters the enclosure near Matthew Lilley's house. Here also was the Park gate (the early Woodbury road passing twenty rods distant from the gate). The Crank of the Park was the bend or angle at its more southern point, between the Stone path and the east fence. Tradition tells of a club house. The building stood on the "way" or path between the Stone path and the Park gate.
There is a tract of I7 1/2 acres within it, that has had but two owners-Jonathan Scott (who was taken out of town by the Indians), and the Episcopal Church. Scott laid it out in 1720. He received it " for services done for the proprietors." In 1745, the year in which he died, he conveyed it (calling it woodland) to the Professors of the Church of Eng- land in Waterbury. It is still one of the glebe lands held by St. John's church. Daniel Scott-the son who
lived with his father-also signed the deed. At the layout of the land its north- west corner was an oak tree; in 1745 it was a "rock-oak tree"; in 1780 or a little later it had become a " large rock-oak tree"; in 1842 it was an "old rock-oak tree," and in 1884 the shell of the stump of the tree could be seen, out of which two saplings of considerable size were growing. In 1724 a tract of thirty-two acres was laid out to John Richardson, the survey of which in- cluded the easterly corner of Scott's land. This overlapping of ancient surveys has full illustration, as found in the Park. This layout of 1724 mentions Bryant's hill. Who Bryant was, and why his name was given to the hill, we have not learned.
James Nichols-the founder and the owner of the Park-in 1733, when his father, Joseph Nichols, died, was a stu- dent at Yale college. Because of his studies he resigned the executorship of his father's will. He early sold his right in his father s farm to John Nettleton. In 1742 he made his first purchase within the territory which he later owned. In 1749 he laid out, bought, exchanged, and bargained for lands all about that region, and became the virtual owner or con- troller of all the land in and surrounding his future park-so that the string of his purchases extended all the way from the summit of West Side hill to the extreme northern part of Gaylord's hill, including some of the Hopkins land-and this, not- withstanding the title still held by others to lands within the enclosure, probably provided for by " bargains" not on re- cord.
It would be interesting to learn why James Nichols forsook his deer park. We only know that on January 2, 1756, he sold to his " brother " Ebenezer Wakelee, all the land in the Park that he then owned, and that he was, at that date, living in Salisbury. In 1756 he sold also to Wakelee "sundry pieces outside of the Park fence." The same year Eben- ezer Wakelee sold to his brother James
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Wakelee, for £135, "one half of that Land called ye park," and said that it was the land he bought of James Nichols.
Fifty of the above acres (which ran up to the top of Welton's mountain) Wakelee sold to David Shelton of Ripton. This land remained in the Shelton family for more than fifty years, and the name ad- hered to the locality as late as 1865. John Clark (who removed to New Milford) bought most of the Shelton tract about 1812; he sold fifteen acres of uniform width, off the south end, to William K. Lampson, who conveyed it to James Scovill, who sold it to Edward Scovill. When his estate was settled this land was " distributed " to James C. Scovill. So far as the records reveal, or their estates make it to appear, William Morgan and Miles Morris are still the owners of five acres of this original lay- out of fifty acres.
The Park field lay in the southeastern portion of it. About 1760, George Nich- ols began to cultivate the land there, giving it that name. The Nichols family owned lands in that region and all about it, long after James sold out. Tradition indicates at a later period perhaps, and probably in the time of John Nichols (the author of a most remarkable convey- ance of land) that a club of Waterbury's young men, built a club house in the Park and filled the region with the echoes of their festivities-but nothing more substantial has reached us than the possible site of this club house, elsewere referred to. George Nichols had an hun- dred-acre farm, said to be located at Sco- vill's meadow. It extended from the old Woodbury road northward, probably to the southern limit of the Park, and along on the outside of the western side of it. On it he seems to have built the famous tavern, referred to on page 422.
Solomon Tompkins lived near the southwest corner of Welton's mountain in the Park. The remains of his two houses still appear, one within, one with- out the fence. His first dwelling place, by tradition a famous Tory rendezvous in
the Revolutionary war, is indicated by the ruins of a chimney fireplace, the other, by a cellar. He deeded in 1783, his house and land to his "friend Mary Robbins, living at The Clove in New York." This mysterous personage came to the Park from Satan's Meditation, situated near the Miry swamp in Middle- bury, and later, it is said moved to Northeast, N. Y. Notwithstanding tra- dition, Solomon Tompkins was an Amer- ican soldier in the war, and a pensioner of 1818. Tradition likewise gives us "Saul's " swamp (which doubtless should be Sol's) and " Saul " as an Indian.
Lemuel Nichols' tavern a little beyond the Park may account for a part of the tradition.
The last land laid out in the Park was, it is believed, Timon Miles's, about 1817.
The descendants of Elijah Nichols (son of Richard, son of Joseph), have lived for many years in that vicinity. Hannah, who owned an acre of orchard in the Park, was his daughter. Wishing to go West with her brothers, Elijah, Jr., and Clement, she, it is said, sold it to Amasa Roberts for a horse. Roberts sold the orchard to Aaron Benedict for a fat sheep. Later, Thomas Lockwood bought it of the Benedict estate, and cut the trees down. Gideon, brother of Hannah, lived a little eastward of the Glebe swamp, where he had a house near a spring, and a rude building in which he wove carpets.
Reuben Nichols lived very near the Park, where the watering place now is. He also built a house on its western edge -a part of it set into the ledge-and along which the Park fence ran. Bethlehem pippins grew there A somewhat cele- brated apple tree of the above variety still stands not far from the house. The rail fence, in an angle of which this tree stands, it is said was frequently moved, so as to include the tree-the owner, on either side, contending for its possession.
Orra Nichols, Gideon's daughter, was perhaps, the last descendant of the Nichols family who clung to the Park.
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The house at its gate, in which she lived until quite recently, was once a saw-mill. It was moved there from Sled Hall brook, used as a blacksmith shop, by Amasa Roberts-and still later, was made a dwelling house. Orra bought it and lingered there, until, in her old age, the town took her and her poor habita- tion into its care. And thus departed from this region the last representative of the proud and prosperous Nichols family.
NONNEWAUG HILL-North of Watertown centre, and within the fork of Steel's brook and Obadiah's brook. The parsonage or ministry land of 150 acres lay between the south end of the hill and Steel's brook. It was within the limits of the Village, land having been taken upon it before the Village was laid out. We find the following description: "That called Nonnewaug-northwest of Jonathan Scott's mill at the falls of Steel's brook." A stream and plain of the same name are in Watertown.
OBADIAH'S BROOK-A branch of Steele's brook, north of Watertown cen- tre, between the road to Robert's mill on the West Branch and the Litchfield turn- pike.
OBADIAH'S MEADOW-At the junc- tion of Steele's with Obadiah's Meadow brook.
OLD ETERNITY ROAD-The old highway that runs southward from the vicinity of the Rock house, see p 259, and goes to the top of Buck's Meadow mountain. It crossed the mountain lengthwise and came toward Waterbury. It is so-called in 1773 in a deed given by Richard Seymour to his son Joash.
ORONOKE HILL, 1686-The ridge between Gaylord's and Welton's brooks, running down to near where they join Hop brook. The Woodbury road of 1720 ran over its north end, and in the survey it is called " a plain hill." It was first mentioned in a grant to John Welton, then called Worenog. Later it appears as Orenaug, Oronoke, Orinack, Orinoque.
It then became reduced to Onuck, now called Oronoke. The south end of it was later called Blackman's hill. The Derby road of 1740 ran over the middle of it. William Johnson now lives on the sum- mit. His place was formerly the Dudley place.
THE ORDINARY-A rock on the ancient Farmington line, which formed the northeast corner of the southern sec- tion of the Waterbury purchase of the Tunxis Indians in 1684.
OUSE BASS SWAMP-North of the old Cheshire road, near Calvary ceme- tery.
PATAROON HILL-See page 325.
PEPPERIDGE SWAMP, PEPRAGE SWAMP-Judd's meadow near the Great hill, west side of the river.
PIGEON BROOK-A branch of Hop brook, not far from its mouth. The out- let of Pigeon swamp-an adjunct of Cot- ton Wool meadow. Charles Wedge has a shop on it.
PINE HILL-See p 240.
PINE HOLE-Waterville.
PINE ISLAND, PINE ISLAND FALLS-In the Naugatuck river above Platt's mills,
PINE ISLAND MEADOW-The small meadow west of the river near by the falls.
PINE ISLAND SPRING-A noted spring on the east side of the river at the same place-sometimes called "The widow's spring." Named for the widow of Sergeant Samuel Hikcox.
PINE SWAMP-Between Upson's and Richardson's meadows.
POLAND-In Farmington and Water- bury. Grants to soldiers of the Pequot war were made there by Farmington It probably was named on account of the hoop-poles that were found there, as Southmayd, in one instance certainly, wrote "Pole Land." A path to " Watter- bury" is mentioned there in 1696 in the Farmington records. The Poland river is an easterly branch of the Pequabuck
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river. The principal part of the region once known as Poland is now in Bristol, and the Terryville station of the New York and New England road is in the midst of it.
POND HILL-In the eastern part of Naugatuck, in the southern part of the Fulling Mill brook system, giving the name to the Pond Hill school district. The hill was so named from a small nat- ural pond on it.
POPPLE MEADOW-Above the falls on the Naugatuck river-where Sutliff's mill was.
PATUCKO'S RING-Originally the extensive hill east of Ash swamp. It is slightly separated from the original Spin- dle hill on the northwest by a small brook and the depression through which it runs into Ash swamp. It extended to the Mad river. See page 53. Josiah Rog- ers about 1724 laid out over a hundred acres in one tract " on Patucko's Ring at the Falls of the Mad River"; land was laid out "on the hill east of Ash Swamp at a place called Patucko's Ring"; land that lay on both sides of Ash Swamp, be- low the swamp, was said to be " at Ches- nut hill and Patucko's Ring"-so that the name would seem to apply to all that ex- tensive range of hill from Ash Swamp brook northward so far as to lie between Spindle hill and the Mad river.
POVERTY STREET, 1773 - The western part of the Bunker Hill road in Watertown.
PRINDLE HILL-Edmund's moun- tain, also Hopkins' mountain. The same name was at one time applied to the an- cient Welton's hill between Grove and Pine streets.
PUNDERSON'S HOLE-John Pun- derson of New Haven bought in 1731 of Jonathan Scott " three and one-half acres west of the river against Mad meadow." Punderson's hole was the peculiar de- pression in the sand hills in this pur-
chase, near the point where the Meriden railroad leaves the New England.
RACE PLAIN-In Middlebury, the east side of Three-Mile hill. Mentioned at an early date, and referred to Indian occupancy, as it is now well known that the Indians met for their annual games at chosen resorts, racing being with them a favorite game.
RAM PASTURE, RAM PASTURE LANE - Grand street.
RICHARDS' BROOK, ASH SWAMP BROOK-From Colonel Street Richards who lived in the house nearest the pres- ent reservoir.
RICHARDS'S MOUNTAIN-See p. 25I.
RICHARDS' SWAMP - North of Mount Taylor, on a branch of Spruce brook. From John Richards.
ROARING BROOK-North end of Lewis's hill.
ROARING RIVER-The name of Mad river in 1679.
ROLAND'S SWAMP, 1716-"On a plain west of the highway to Buxhill."
ROCK HOUSE-See p. 259.
GREAT ROCK HOUSE - Near Buck's hill.
ROUND HILL, 1688-Within the northeastern part of the city.
ROUND MEADOW-The site of the proposed Hop brook reservoir when Hop brook was the proposed source of the water supply for the city of Waterbury.
ROUND MEADOW BROOK - A name sometimes given for the north branch of Hop brook.
RUCUM HILL-The southern end of the northern division of Gaylord's hill.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS-In 1788 the school districts of Waterbury were: Break Neck,# Buck's Hill, East (Hog Pound), Farmingbury, First Society, Gunn Town, Hop Swamp, "Amasa Scovills," "The
* The Break Neck district had forty tax-payers on a sum total of £1336, of which number thirteen were Bronsons, who paid very nearly one-half the taxes of that district.
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Southwest and Salem," "Tompkins," Town Plot.
In 1790 two districts had been added and the names changed to numbers-the Thirteenth district having been formed in part from the Buck's Hill district. The East district became the Third, and Tompkins the Fifth district.
Among the early school-houses away from Waterbury centre that have been noticed as of record before 1800 are: One in Westbury in 1762; on Three-Mill hill in 1784; on Bedlam hill in 1784; in Tomp- kins district in 1794.
Of the early school teachers in the "Judd's Meadow district," the following names have been preserved in the records of Deacon Samuel Lewis: In 1771 Abi- gail Winters, Esther Cook, Daniel War- ner, Olive Upson and Temperance Spen- ser. In 1772 Esther Cook. In 1776 [Mrs.] Ame Constant.
SANDY HOLLOW-At and about the house of the late Dr. Alfred North on North Main street. It is now occu- pied by the Waterbury club.
SATAN'S MEDITATION-Origi- nally a portion of the Miry swamp, be- tween the branches of Hop brook. When Solomon Tompkins bought land there of the Howe family the land was described as being "at the Miry swamp." When Tompkins sold the land about ten years later it is described as "Sa ... s Medi- tation."
SAW-MILL HILL-Near Nathaniel Gunn's saw-mill. North of the brook and west of Millville.
SAW-MILL PLAIN, MILL PLAIN- Where the earliest saw-mill of Water- bury was. It is now simply Mill Plain.
SCOTT'S BROOK-A name once applied to that portion of Long Meadow brook which is below present Millville.
SCOTT'S GRAVE-About three- fourths of a mile southwesterly from Rey- nolds Bridge.
SCOTT'S MOUNTAIN - See page 325-Named in 1703.
SCOTT'S SAW-MILL-On Hancock's brook near the present Downs' grove.
SCOTT'S SUGAR WORKS-About 1750. In Middlebury, in the "Meshad- dock" or "Meshatuck" region. From John Scott, son of Edmund, 2d, who settled there about 1733.
SCOVILL'S MEADOW-On the Mid- dlebury road beyond the Boughton place. See page 354.
"SCOWERING " GRASS SWAMP AND BAD SWAMP-In the region drained by Fort Swamp brook after leav- ing Fort Swamp, Bad swamp probably being the small miry swamp immedi- ately west of Tame Buck hill.
SCRAG FIELD-Northeast of Buck's hill. In 1730 Richard Welton had land laid out at its north end.
SECOND MOUNT, 1740-It lay west of Samuel Porter's house, the east side of East mountain, at Turkey hill.
SHARP'S MANOUVER-In 1793 land was sold to John Kingsbury, Esq., described as "in the northeast part of the sequester a little south of Flaggy Swamp plain, adjoining Sharp's Manou- ver, bounded southward on highway or said Manouver." Laid out on Thomas Richardson's right.
SHRUB PLAIN-On the West Branch above Reynolds bridge.
SHUM'S ORCHARD - In Poland. There was also Shum's Orchard hill.
SLED HALL-Traditionally, the spot where the pioneer planters passed the first winter. Sergt. Samuel Hikcox owned land "at Sled Hall," described as " west of the river, south and west on the hill." See p. 590.
SLED HALL BROOK-Flows out of Tamarack swamp and into the river south of the Waterbury hospital. On this stream an attempt to build a saw- mill was probably made in 1674, in order to furnish material for their houses on Town Plot. It was the only available brook near there and was
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readily adapted to the style of mill used at that date.
THE SLIP-See "THE LONG LAND."
SOL'S SWAMP-In the Park, named from Solomon Tompkins.
SPRUCE BROOK-There were three Spruce brooks. One enters the Nauga- tuck from the east, and flows between Mount Taylor and Mount Tobe; another, north of Watertown centre, flows from the west into Steele's brook; still another enters Steele's brook just above the Oak- ville station.
SPRUCE SWAMP-In the northern part of Watertown. East of the road from Watertown centre to Robert's mill on the West Branch.
STONE BRIDGE-On the old New Haven road at the south end of the Abrigador. It was over Horse Pasture brook.
STONE HOUSE-At the southern foot of Hopkins' hill.
STONE PITTS-Near Mantoe's House rocks. Rights were reserved here to get stone by the proprietors.
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