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Lake Chaubunagungamaug, also known as Webster Lake, is a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts. It is located near the Connecticut border and has a surface area of 1,442 acres (2.253 sq mi). Since 1921, the lake has also been known by a much longer name having 45 letters comprising fourteen syllables: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugg ...
Lake Chaubunagungamaug, Massachusetts. With the longest name of any geographic feature in the United States, this lake near the Massachusetts-Connecticut border is sure to trip up most who try to ...
The Chaubunagungamaug Reservation refers to the small parcel of land located in the town of Thompson, Connecticut, close to the border with the town of Webster, Massachusetts, and within the bounds of Lake Chaubunagungamaug (Webster Lake) to the east and the French River to the west.
Chaubunagungamaug, Chabanakongkomuk, Chaubunakongkomun, or Chaubunakongamaug 'The boundary fishing place,' 'fishing place at the boundary,' or 'at the boundary.' Webster, Massachusetts (on lands ceded from Dudley). Hassanamesit, Hassannamessit, Hassanameset, or Hassanemasset 'Place where there is [much] gravel,' or 'at a place of small stones.'
Chaubunagungamaug, one of two official Indigenous names for Webster Lake which occupies much of the southern half of the town, signifies "divided fishing place" or "fishing place at the boundary," because the lake was once divided into exclusive fishing zones with the Nipmuck at the northern part of the lake living in a village also known as ...
Chaubunagungamaug may refer to: Lake Chaubunagungamaug, in Massachusetts; Chaubunagungamaug Reservation, near Webster, Massachusetts This page was last edited on 28 ...
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (45 letters); Short forms: Lake Chaubunagungamaug; [1] Webster Lake Lake in Webster, Massachusetts, United States: Nipmuc "Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds". [2] Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States.
The following is based upon "Proposed Finding Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians" (Oct. 2001) [5] and reiterated in the "Final Determination to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of The Nipmuck Nation" (June 2004) [6] and as such represents the views of the Department of the Interior and may differ from the views of Nipmuc Nation ...