List of Place Names in New England of Aboriginal Origin - Vermont

Vermont

Common languages: Abnaki, Mahican

    • Mount Ascutney (and village): (Abnaki) "at the end of the river fork"
    • Lake Bomoseen (and town): (Abnaki) "keeper of ceremonial fire"
    • Hoosac Mountains: (Mahican) "stone place"
    • Hoosic River
    • Lake Iroquois: (Abnaki-French) "real adders" (describing western enemies of Abnaki)
    • Jamaica: (Natick) "beaver"
    • Maquam Bay
    • Lake Memphremagog: (Abnaki) "where there is great expanse of water"
    • Mettawee River
    • Missisquoi River: tribal name
    • Monadnock Mountain: (Abnaki) "at the mountain which sticks up like an island" (see New Hampshire)
    • Moosalamoo Mountain: (Abnaki) "moose trail"
    • Netop Mountain: (Natick) "my friend"
    • Nickwaket Mountain: (Abnaki) "at the fork" or "home of squirrels"
    • Nulhegan River: (Abnaki) "log trap" or "deadfall"
    • Ompompanoosuc River: (Abnaki) "mushy/quaky land"
    • Ottauquechee River: (uncertain – Natick?) "swift mountain stream"
    • Passumpsic River (and village): (Abnaki) "flowing over clear, sandy bottom"
    • Pico Peak: (possibly Abnaki) "the pass/opening"
    • Pompanoosuc: abbreviation of Ompompanoosuc
    • Popasquash Island
    • Quechee: abbreviation of Ottauquechee
    • Queneska Island: (Abnaki) "elbow" or "long joint"
    • Walloomsac River
    • Winooski River (and city): (Abnaki) "wild onions"
  • Former names:
    • Mozodepo wadso: (Abnaki) "moose-head mountain" Mount Mansfield
    • Tawakbodee-esso wadso: (Abnaki) "resting place/sit-down mountain" Camel's Hump

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Famous quotes containing the word vermont:

    “In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell’s Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction, where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “Anything I can say about New Hampshire
    Will serve almost as well about Vermont,
    Excepting that they differ in their mountains.
    The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
    New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)