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Naumkeag is the former country estate of noted New York City lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate and Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate, located at 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The estate's centerpiece is a 44-room, Shingle Style country house designed principally by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White , and constructed in 1885 and ...
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Naumkeag is a historical tribe of Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in northeastern Massachusetts. They controlled most of the territory ...
In the early 1600s, the Pawtucket sachem held authority over the Pennacook (present-day Concord, New Hampshire), Agawam (present-day Cape Ann, Massachusetts), Naumkeag (present-day Salem, Massachusetts), Pascataway, and Accomintas peoples according to late contemporary source Daniel Gookin, but this authority waned after an epidemic in 1612-1613.
Her family summered at Naumkeag, their “summer cottage” on Prospect Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which was designed by the New York City-based firm McKim, Mead & White. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In July 1926, she met Fletcher Steele , prominent American landscape architect, while he was delivering a lecture at the Lenox Garden Club. [ 5 ]
Wenepoykin was born in 1616. He was the youngest son of Nanepashemet and the Squaw Sachem of Mistick.He was 13 years old when the English began settling in the area. By that time he was sachem of Naumkeag (although he may have received assistance from an older family member until he came of age). [1]
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.
In 2020 the City of Salem, under the leadership of Mayor Kim Driscoll, began a project that would destroy the Camp Naumkeag cultural landscape located in another part of Salem, and move some but not all of the buildings from Pioneer Village to the Camp Naumkeag site. [3] The result would be the destruction of both historic cultural landscapes.