USA > Massachusetts > Hampden County > Springfield > Historical address delivered before the citizens of Springfield in Massachusetts at the public celebration, May 26, 1911, of the two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the settlement; with five appendices, viz: Meaning of Indian local names, The cartography of Springfield, Old place names in Springfield, Unrecorded deed of Nippumsuit, Unrecorded deed of Paupsunnuck > Part 7
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NECESSITY. EAST LONGMEADOW or LONGMEADOW. A locality of this name, near Enfield bounds is mentioned in I 619. Possibly the locality was continuous with the above.
NECK. WEST SPRINGFIELD. "The Neck" was, it would appear, a rude triangle which had the Connecticut for one of its sides and the Agawam, in its old bed, north of the present outlet, for another, while certainly there was an east boundary on the Connecticut. B 416 shows a west boundary on the Agawam. It lay in the Great Bottom. A 44, 110; A B 143, 247. But see C 636. Map D etc. Wright's Maps; especially the map of the Agawam in 1803. See Jude's Neck.
The neck at lower Chicopee was known as Wright's Neck. C 168. For the lower neck at Skipmaug see A B 161.
NETTLETON'S POND. Made by damming Garden Brook at Spring Street. Maps HK.
NEW BAY ROAD. The Boston Road, which has been ill named Berkshire St. In 1827 it had so far eclipsed the old Bay Road that the latter dis- appeared from Map C. "Old Bay Road" used in contrast survived the 60's but is probably now extinct. 2 I C 61.
NEW BOSTON. WEST SPRINGFIELD. At the west end of Park Street. Here was the earliest station of the railroad from Boston to Albany, thus placing the town in seemingly more direct connection with the capitol. The name was probably humorous at first but is now obsolescent.
NEWBURY DITCH. Lieut. Roger Newbury established certain lines of the inward and outward commons on the east and the ditches making the line received his name. Reg. of Deeds bk. 129 p. 125; 3 I C 57. Peck's Wilbraham p. 17; Stebbins' Wilbraham p. 198.
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NEWFIELD. Fields newly laid out for several owners received this name. For Agawam see 2 B 266-7; C 274; D 179; For West Springfield see D 333; H 364; for Springfield see C 221; for Oldfield in Agawam, C 340.
NIGGER POND. AGAWAM. Near the road from Agawam bridge to Feed- ing Hills, a mile from the bridge, on the land of .Charles H. Churchill. Its level changing with the seasons is the index of the level of the water in the wells of Feeding Hills. Ex. rel. James W. Moore. Map Y.
NINE MILE POND. WILBRAHAM. The scene of a sad catastrophe of which an account may be found in Stebbins' Wilbraham p. 167 and in Peck's Wilbraham p. 170. For the drainage ditch dug for the purpose of recovering the bodies of the drowned see Eight Mile Gutter 2 B 270. Even the later maps show this pond as one of the sources of the north branch of Mill River but this is no longer true. The ditch and the draining of Cedar Swamp (Map I) about 1890 have made essential changes.
NODDLE. NODDLE ISLAND. AGAWAM. Evidently named from its resemblance to a noddle or pate. By reference to the map of the Agawam river, 1803, in Wright's maps it is seen to be separated from the Neck (q. v.) by the river channel. A subsequent shortening of the river's course has made the Noddle an island. Reg. of Deeds, book 53 p. 682; book 374 p. 792. Noddle Island in Boston harbor is otherwise conjecturally explained in the Memorial History of Boston, but apparently not with satisfactory proof.
NONESUCH. NONSUCH MEADOW. WEST SPRINGFIELD. It is the fringe of meadow surrounding the swamp that forms the headwaters of Block Brook. Map I. The old pond bottom is marked "Peat Bed" on Map N. and in B 84 the pond is mentioned as being above the meadow. 2 B 291; B 221-2; D 185. Talcott A. Rogers, octogenarian, considers the name as ironical, and so good a farmer ought to know.
NORTH BRANCH, THE. The north branch of Mill river. See Nine Mile Pond.
NORTH END BROOK. See End Brook. Maps D E.
NORTHAMPTON LANDING PLACE. HOLYOKE. Near the Northamp- ton line. 2 IC 151, 260; 3 IC 281.
OAK SWAMP. CHICOPEE. 3 I C 291-2.
OBLONG, THE. WILBRAHAM. See Peck's Wilbraham p. 95.
OLD BRICK KILN. In the bluff north of Round Hill. 2 B 268.
OLDFIELD. According to James W. Moore, the word, used of localities in Agawam and elsewhere, is applied to land that had been cultivated by the Indians. It occurs in ancient deeds. See Newfield.
ONKAMORE MEADOW. AGAWAM. Formerly the property of Sandy Onkamore, an Indian. It lies to the north part of Agawam over against the
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Mittineague dam and Ashkanunksuck. Ex. rel. James W. Moore. There is an Onkamore Club in Feeding Hills.
OUTING PARK. Land between Main and Maple streets marked "Edward Cooley" on Map W which in 1887 was leased for five years to the Young Men's Christian Association for a recreation center. The word "outing" was then becoming popular. The land was sold for development in 1913, and the name after 25 years use is obsolescent.
OVERPLUS LAND. WILBRAHAM. See Commons and Peck's Wilbraham. PACONEMISK. CHICOPEE. An unascertained locality between Chicopee river and Williamansett brook. Deed of Nippumsuit and others to William Pynchon; facsimile in the Springfield City Library.
PARSONS' DAM. On Boston road at Stone Pit brook. 2 B 314; 2 IC 61. Map A.
PASCO ROAD. Runs north from Loon pond. Members of the Pasco family lived in the eighteenth century and later in Enfield and Ludlow and Stafford and are still found in East Longmeadow. For "Pasco's Old House" see Map C and 2 LG 395. See also Peck's Wilbraham p. 144.
PASTURES, THE. Land on the Connecticut below Mill river and north of Pacowsic. I 16, 146, 352. In Longmeadow; I 352.
PATH. An imperfect road or trail, as Bay path, Moheague path, Pequit path, Longmeadow path, Mill River path, Little Wachogue path. The word is used for the Boston road as late as 1771. 1 B 188; 2 B 213, 306, 312, 505. See Footpath. Cartpath occurs often and in 2 LG 456 land is bounded on a cowpath. The path and way to Woronoake formerly went south of the present highway and near Barbers Swamp in Ashkanunksuck neck.
PATUCKET. The Great Falls at Holyoke. 1 B 156. The word seems to mean "at the falls" as being composed of the word meaning "falls" and the locative "et".
PAUCATUCK. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Thus the Indians called the intervale on the north side of the left bank of the Westfield or Woronoco river between the trap ridge dividing West Springfield from Westfield and the lower ridge of trap to the east. The northern boundry would be the old Albany stage road circling round the meadow. For the meaning of the word consult Trumbull's Indian Names of Places in Connecticut and Handbook of the American Indians, published by the Smithsonian Institution. Trumbull, an excellent authority, refers the suffix "tuck" to the rise and fall of a tidal river but this even in his own list does not seem universal. Possibly in this case it has to do with the rising and falling of the river in the spring and fall. These freshets (See Morley's Bridge) so fertilized the land formerly that three crops of hay could be cut in a season. "Pauqua" means clear, open and may denote the fact that here the river opens out into a clear space after
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passing through the narrows at Paucatuck Falls, falls but more likely to the transparent shallow water of the river itself.
The first settler in Paucatuck was the writer's ancestor, Benjamin Smith; see Bagg's West Springfield p. 120. On the easterly ridge are the sightly grounds of the Paucatuck Cemetery Association. The name Wood- lawn for the intervale is a recent and wretched sentimentalism. In 2 B 491 Paucatuck as a school district included Tattom. Paucatuck is extended too far eastward on Map D. 1 B 277, 311, 403; 2 B 480; C 627; I 92.
PAUCATUCK BROOK. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Enters the Westfield at Paucatuck. Black brook of Map Q is an error traceable to Map I in which Paucatuck brook is misnamed Block Brook. At the headwaters of. Pauca- tuck Brook a cornmill and ironworks are noted on Map A and hydraulic cement works on Map D. The flow has been diminished by the Holyoke water system. Benjamin Smith settled by this brook about 1688. His house, the first between Westfield and West Springfield, was traditionally called a fort; its site was near that of the present house of Ethan Sikes. 2 B 290, 296. In connection with the latter grant see Bagg's West Spring- field p. 120, 121; C 248, 354.
PAUCATUCK FALLS. The rapids above Paucatuck. In 1793 there were brick kilns there. D. 16; Co. Ct. Rec. 199.
PAUCATUCK MOUNTAIN. PAUCATUCK HILL. The range of trap west of Paucatuck. It is the southern limit of the Mt. Tom rattlesnake. 2 IC 180.
PAUHUNGANUCK. AGAWAM. The name of a brook mentioned only in an Indian deed recorded in A-B 21 and printed in Wright's Indian Deeds. There are two brooks of considerable size entering the Agawam near the Springfield bridge, one on its west, the other on its east side. One of these is Pauhunganuck, but which it is impossible to say, even with such a key as might be supplied by the suffix, "ganuck", possibly a bend, or according to Trumbull "within the bend" for both brooks enter the Agawam at the same bend of that river. Both streams have substantially the same source, the swampy land at the foot of the 200 foot level west of South street and the upper waters of both go bending round before making for the Agawam. A view from the plain looking southerly upon Wequashausick indicates that in order to include all the good land the line of the Indian deed should follow the westerly brook. Not without some doubt I incline to the opinion that Pauhunganuck is the westerly stream. I do not adopt the theory that postulates a mill upon the stream. See Wright's Indian Deeds p. 64. That there was, however, a mill, see Mill brook.
PECOWSIC. PACOWSICK. PECOWSUCK. PACOWSAUK; etc. SPRINGFIELD and EAST LONGMEADOW. According to Trumbull the suffix "sauk" or "sic" refers to an outlet of water. If the name is the same as Trumbull's "Paugusset" it means "a place where the narrows open out", a proper description of the lower part of Forest Park, which still bears the name Pecowsic. Pecowsic is the scene of the Indian attack on the Keep
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family. 1 B 220, 226, 228, 263, 348; AB 21, 116; 3 IC 288. For Pecousic path, 3 LG 391. Pecowsic hill is at or near the Barney mansion. 2 LG 432. The later spelling of the second syllable tends to corrupt the pronunciation.
PECOWSIC, TOWN OF. An early designation of East Longmeadow. Near the village are the headwaters of the brook of this name. 2 IC 263 etc. See I B 230.
PEGGY'S DIPPING HOLE. DIPPING HOLE ROAD. According to the Oxford Dict. a dipping hole is a spring from which to dip water and is the equivalent of diphole. The tradition is, as told by Stebbins in his Hist. of Wilbraham, p. 280, that a certain Peggy, going horseback from some part of that town to Springfield here fell off and got a wetting. The spot is located where the Dipping Hole road, running east from the Parker street school- house, was crossed by a brook entering the North Branch at its northerly bend. The course of the brook is plain but in October 1913 it was dry. Map C. See also Peck's Wilbraham p. 32, 36.
PENT ROAD. AGAWAM. The closed road shown on Map D. as extending from Halfway Hill westward across Deep Gutter brook and now disused except as it forms a part of Rowley street. Reliable tradition in Feeding Hills has it that through this road passed cannon and munitions to Gen. Gates in 1777. See also Map Q. HOLYOKE. Another on the same map near Ashley's Pond.
WEST SPRINGFIELD. The lower road through Paucatuck to Paucatuck Falls was at first closed by gates, for the protection of the meadow. Co. Ct. Rec. 199, 200. There was another laid out in Longmeadow. 2 L G 355. Pent roads were also called close roads.
PEQUIT PATH. The Indian trail from the fort on Fort Hill or Long Hill to the land of the Pequots or Mohegans .- It crossed the Freshwater river in Enfield near the lower fork. 1 B 312, 390, 403, 404; 2 B 238, 243. Wright's maps. See Mohegan Path.
PIG ALLEY. A once popular name of Cross Street. The name became obsolete with the change in the character of the street but is not yet forgotten.
PIKLE. PICKLE. This word is properly spelled "pightle" and means a small piece of enclosed land. The only ones of which I find mention were in the general fields of the west side. Henry Smith had a pickle in the Great Bottom and John Dumbleton is recorded as having a lot in the pickle. One was in the General Field; another in Chicopee Field by the brook north of the residence of Ethan Brooks and another in Agawam. 2 B 224; I B 258, 276; 2 B 47; A B 212; B 128, 146; D 222, 577; K 378, 590. Reg. Deeds bk. 30 p. 215. For the objects of a pickle see I B 201.
PINE HALL. This was an opening made by cutting saw logs on the slope of the lower Mill river valley, a region of which the slopes and heights were covered with pines and are now intersected by Belmont and Euclid avenues and Dickinson street. A sawmill was there. In old English "hall" described
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an opening in a wood. See Oxford Dict. In Farmington, Connecticut, there is a locality at the bend of the river still known as "Crane Hall". The universally correct spelling of this word in our records shows that it has no connection with the word "haul". I B 269-70; AB 60; B 223. See Bark Hall; Blake's Woods.
"Mid the echoing forest halls One great heart rejoices". AUBREY DE VERE.
PINE PLAIN. The plain of the high level formerly more than now given over to a growth of yellow pine of low or moderate size and extending north- erly from the Chicopee wilderness through the wilderness between the Long- meadows and beyond into Connecticut in which state it is crossed by the trolley line from Warehouse Point to Melrose. All the sand is the gift of the Great glacier. Washington notes the plain in his Diary. 1 B 288, 349, 389; 2 B 297.
PINE SWAMPS, THE. A general term applicable to the swamps of the Pine plain but in a single instance specifically referring to a locality near Main street apparently in the vicinity of Bliss and Howard streets. 1 B 162.
PINE, THE GREAT. Indicated on Maps B C and particularly described by Heman Smith in King's Handbook of Springfield. For it Pine street was named but that portion of the street was afterwards renamed in consequence of the dislocation due to the layout of Walnut street. See Bay Road. In a lodge in the branches of the great tree a neighborhood thief made his rendez- vous and when discovered fled to the woods between the Boston and Wilbra- ham roads whither he was pursued with guns and surrounded. Ex. rel. James E. Russell (born 1821).
PIPER'S HOLE. PIPER. PIPER CITY. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Mention of Piper's Hole occurs in a deed of 1737 (I 759) and also in K 443. Usage abbreviated the name to Piper. A brick dwelling house having been con- structed in the locality, the supposed ambition of the owner gave rise to the name Piper City and also to the phrase Brick City. The locality itself is on the present Piper street at the golf links of the Country Club and the brick house appears on Map T as owned by Mrs. Chauncey White but has since been destroyed by fire. Piper's Hole suggests Peggy's Dipping Hole (q. v.) and, as at the latter place, a small stream crosses the highway. The Pepper family have had holdings in this part of the town since 1645 but it is impossible that there should be any connection between the two names. The surname Piper is unknown to the records of deeds or of births, marriages and deaths before 1800. The question might be asked what happened to the piper on his way home from training day.
PIPER BROOK, WEST SPRINGFIELD. Rises on the Bosworth farm in Amostown and unites with Barker's brook.
PISSAK. CHICOPEE. This name, applied by the Indians to the meadows and swamps south of the Chicopee river near its mouth, occurs in the deed
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of Nippumsuit and others to Wm. Pynchon of which a facsimile is in the city library of Springfield. Trumbull gives Pissak as "mire" i. e. a swamp.
PLAIN, THE. See Plainfield. E 98.
PLAIN BROOK. In maps A D E it would appear that the northerly of the two water courses by which Garden brook reaches the river was known by this name as it passes through the Plain field. See AB 195; also End brook.
PLAINFIELD. The plain called Nayas by the Indians. It is now traversed by Plainfield street. It was also spoken of simply as "The Plain". I B 237; 2 B 269; AB 114. Maps C E. Used also for Chicopee Field; 2 B 451. Plainfield street was the ancient road up the river. To the east the outlet northerly was the present Carew street i. e. Skipmuck road. Henry B. Rice (born 1821) informs me that he saw the fence at the foot of Round Hill demolished that opened the new road, now Main street; that one house had to be removed and that the old road was scarcely more than a lane as, indeed, indicated in the layout in 2 B 244.
PLAIN GATE. The gate near Round hill which admitted to the fenced meadow of Plainfield. I B. 404; 2 B 68. See Longmeadow gate.
PLANTATION. The settlement even as late as 1699. 2 B 291.
PLANTATION BROOK. An early name for Paucatuck Brook, as appears from I B 323, 341 correlated with knowledge existing in the writer's family. PLUMTREE MEADOW. WEST SPRINGFIELD. On Riley's brook. 2 B 306, 308.
PLUMTREES. PLUMTREE MEADOWS. PLUMTREE ROAD. Land at Plumtrees is described as being on the Sixteen Acre branch of Mill river. E 267; K 800. An old resident of Plumtree road informs me that the Plum- tree Meadows are those lying on the left bank of the South Branch coming almost up to the road where it crosses the branch; that these meadows are flooded in the spring; that in the early 60's there were wild and fruitbearing plumtrees on the east side of the road. Ex. rel. James O. Wright. 2 IC 285. "Plumtree road" as a name, is apparently later than 1742. On one map it begins as far west as Orange Street.
POKEHAM. Formerly applied either in humor or derision to the South . Parish of Wilbraham, which is now Hampden. "Poke" is the plant "ever- lasting", the tobacco of the Indians, and possibly one may infer on the part of the settlers in the North Parish a desire to poke fun at their neighbors living on a less productive soil. By tradition through Epaphro A. Day of Hampden (born 1833) the name is traceable as far back as the Revolution. Obsolete. Stebbins' Wilbraham p. 280.
POLE BRIDGE BROOK. WILBRAHAM. A name still in use in that town for the north branch of Mill River. As distinguished from a block bridge
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(See Block Bridge) a pole bridge was a lighter structure. Map N. Another brook of this name was in the northwest part of Chicopee. Co. Ct. Rec. p. 53.
POND BROOK. AGAWAM. Map D.
POND HILL. LONGMEADOW. The bluff west of the main street lying against the Great Pond. H 114; I 695; K 229.
POND MEADOW. A meadow, part, I suppose of the old Wet Meadow, bounded west by Main street, north by a line extending easterly from the present 257 Main street and east by a line nearly equivalent to Worthington street. Reg. deeds bk. 100 p. 312; II Metcalf's Reports p. 312.
POND SWAMP. WEST SPRINGFIELD. In or near Middle Meadow. 2 B 240.
PONDY LAND. A general term applicable to much of the meadow or both sides of the Great River. 2 B 272, 273; A 227; E 422.
POOL BROOK. I have met this name only on Map E. and only a photo- graphic enlargement has made it possible to determine whether the word is Pool or Peel. On the map it is represented as entering the Chicopee river from the south opposite the then line between Chicopee and Ludlow directly north of Long Pond. It is apparently the brook which now forms a part of the sewer system and follows Worcester and Hampden streets. Its head- waters are shown on Map N. Pl. 39 and its lower course on I (side map). A pool of clear spring water in the vicinity is remembered by Jackson Cady, born 1823, died 1915. The watercourse is now spoken of in Indian Orchard as the "old town brook".
POOR BROOK. An old name of uncertain origin. It is the drain of the waters collecting about Four Mile Pond and Wan Swamp. 2 B 280; D) 525. See Skipmuck brook.
POOR BROOK MEADOW. On the lower waters of Poor brook. 2 IC 275.
POOR BROOK PATH. 2 IC 70, 92.
POPLAR SWAMP. AGAWAM. 2 IC 229.
POPPLE RUN. AGAWAM. K 650.
POTASH HILL. HAMPDEN. On the main road to Somers about & half mile north of the state line. Peck's Wilbraham pp. 8, 265.
POT BROOK. Near the Longmeadow-Enfield line. 1 B 240.
POUND. The original pound was at the foot of the lane, now called Elm street, to the north. The second pound was at the Hayplace in West Spring- field. In later years there was a pound on (the present) Pleasant street in
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Springfield. 1 B 337, 414, 420, 434; 2 B III. For a pound near Agawam river see 3 IC 267.
POWDERMILL BROOK. A later name for Crowfoot Brook or rather one of its branches. The powdermill is shown on Maps B C. The brook has been made a part of the Willimansett sewer System.
POWDER MAGAZINE. Inasmuch as there was never any fire in the meeting house it was a safe place for storing powder. (2 B 501). In after years and within my remembrance a powder magazine was at the head of Squaw Tree Dingle, between Magazine street and St. James Avenue. Map D.
PRECINCTS. For these divisions of the town see 2 B 420.
PRESUMPTION. HOLYOKE. A locality in the Falls woods. 2 IC 250, 267, 287.
PROVINCE LAND, THE. HAMPDEN. Near the Scantic. 2 LG 349.
PUTNAM'S BRIDGE. PUTT'S BRIDGE. PUT'S, BRIDGE. The bridge over the Chicopee river on the road from Indian Orchard to Ludlow Mills, formerly Jenksville. On Map A it is called Toll Bridge. In 1809 Mr. Putnam had a grist mill at this place. The name degenerated into Putt's Bridge, which, as the designation of a school district continues in the Reports of the School Committee down to 1885, at which time the school at this locality was discontinued. The name was applicable to both sides of the river. Co. Ct. Rec. p. 253 (1802). Life of Hiram Munger p. II. Peck's Wilbraham p. 268. Maps B G.
PYNCHON FORT. See Fort.
QUANA. One of the Indian deeds defines this as the meadow above House- meadow, as does Holyoke in his note to the first deed. See Middle Meadow; also Wright's Indian Deeds.
RAIL SWAMP. AGAWAM. 2 B 300; D 420; 2 IC 16.
RAMAPOGUE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. This word, variously spelled, first occurs in deeds of the first half of the eighteenth century and taking these and the other records together, with the clue furnished by the suffix "paug", a pond, or standing water, the location can be identified. In one deed it is declared to be the same as the Muxy Meadow and seems to be at or near the place called Byfield. If the village smithy remained for a century down to the present time in the same spot, a quite likely one, the deed of Joseph Merrick to Chester Vanhorn, blacksmith, (G 307, 1734) strongly confirms the conclusion. The place called Ramapogue is therein described as a muxy meadow under the Great Hill bounded northerly and easterly by a highway, and westerly by the Great Hill. In the deed of Vanhorn to Stebbins the place is said to have been formerly called Muxsome meadow, a significant instance
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of an old Indian name supplanting one used by the whites. The name of Stebbins and mention of Clay hill in these deeds of course point to the old pottery, for which see Clay hill. We may conceive of Ramapogue as extend- ing at least from the Common and probably from some point southerly thereof (1 B 346) northerly to and across the Westfield road between the present Elm street, and the foot of the "Great Hill". The new street of the seventeenth century connecting with the way at the north called "the road that goeth over the hill to Ramapogue" was at first called Ramapogue street but unfortunately has lost its ancient and honorable name. The land de- pression is still evident at Ramapogue and may be compared geologically with the pond west of Chicopee Plain. For some distance northerly from Westfield street springs from the high level discharged through Cold Spring brook and until a recent date the smithy had a good pressure of water accessi- ble by the wayside to the thirsty traveller. For the locality, named and un- named, sce 1 B 239, 346; B 124; E 389; F 180, 199; G 127, 301, 307, 533; H 325, 485; I 261, 398, 403; K 333; 3 IC 262; Co. Ct. Rec. 68, 155. Map D. The deeds generally bounded west on "the great hill" but one of them bounds northerly by the hill, showing that Ramapogue, as is indeed evident to-day, stretched northerly to the easterly bend of the bluff of Meeting House Hill. The depression begins about 440 feet west of Elm street measured on Westfield street and extends to the foot of the Great hill. Water could be seen in Ramapogue in the last century in the early spring. See Appendix B.
RASPBERRY BROOK. LONGMEADOW. 2 B 294; C 622; D 5.
RATTLESNAKE PEAK. WILBRAHAM. Maps D I; Stebbins' Wilbraham p. 280; Peck's Wilbraham p. 88. Map A makes it south of the Scantic at Rocky Dundy.
RED BRIDGE. LUDLOW and WILBRAHAM. In 1887 this was a picturesque uncovered wooden bridge, its color mellowed by age. Adder's tongue was growing on a bank on the Ludlow side. Peck's Wilbraham p. 268; Noon's Ludlow p. 229. Map S.
RED BROOK. The same as Stone Pit brook, but later; the name doubtless due to the sandstone detritus in its bed. Map L.
RED HOUSE CROSSING. The crossing of the Boston & Albany R. R. on the highway from Winchester Square to Indian Orchard; named from a small red house on the north side. The larger dwelling succeeding it is appropriately painted red.
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