[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Way (formerly Amogerone Place), a nearby oneblock-long lane in the Greenwich town center. ASPEN. Aspen Mill Road is located in the Town of Ridgefield. During the 1960s, the local planning commission saw to it that this place name would win any prize awarded to the most thoroughly disguised Indian place name in the region when it insisted that a local developer adopt Aspen instead of Asproom, the local colonialera Indian place name that he had originally chosen. Asproom made its first appearance in town records as a mountain mentioned in the November 22, 1721, Indian deed to land in the area (Teller 1878:2324). Colonists subsequently gave the name to a meadow, a swamp, a mill, and several other places (Sanders 2009). Asproom gradually disappeared from local maps after places formerly identified by it were given other names. Today, only Aspen Mill Road provides evidence, albeit of an indirect nature, showing that Asproom was once a widely used Indian name in Ridgefield. ASPETUCK (Fairfield and Litchfield counties). Whritenour thinks that Aspetuck sounds a great deal like a Munsee word, *uspahtung, “an incline or hillside place,” a translation resembling a Southern Unami etymology suggested by Nora Thompson Dean (in Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) for a similarly spelled place name in New Jersey. Whritenour further suggests that the etymology of Aspetuck may derive from another Delaware Indian word, *aspihtukw, “rising river,” in reference to its geographical situation rather than its water level. Aspetuck occurs in several places along the border between New York and Connecticut. colonial times, is a 17-mile-long stream that flows from its headwaters at Flat Swamp south into the Aspetuck Reservoir and past the community of Aspetuck to its confluence with the Saugatuck River (see below) just north of the Town of Westport. Aspetuck Neck at the mouth of the Saugatuck River was sold separately in a deed dated January 19, 1671 (Wojciechowski 1985:98). That same year, John Wampus, a Nipmuck Indian from eastern Massachusetts (see Wampus in New York above), claimed land at Aspetuck by right of his daughter’s marriage to Nowenock (see in Nanuet in New York above), a local leader with close associations to Indian communities in the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. Today, writers often refer to the native people who lived along the Aspetuck River in Fairfield as Aspetuck Indians. People in the county began giving the name to roads, ridges, and a wide variety of organizations, businesses, and housing developments loBeyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet cated in a triangular area bounded by Redding, Bridgeport, and Darien during the mid-1800s. Aspetuck village presently is perhaps most widely known as the place where Helen Keller made her below). CATOONAH. In 1860, Ridgefield businessmen built a meetinghouse they dubbed Catoonah Hall, a variant spelling of Katonah (see in New York in Part 1 above), the name of a locally prominent Indian leader. Today, Catoonah Street remains the only cartographic reminder of the now-vanished hall’s existence. CHICKEN. The name of several prominent eighteenth-century sachems named Chickens associated with the Lonetown and Schaghticoke Indian communities (see below), adorns two large rocks in western Connecticut. Chicken’s Rock is a large boulder that sits on the southwest shore of Great Pond in the Town of Ridgefield. Farther north, a large outcrop known as Chicken Rock juts out into Candlewood Lake. One of the bearers of the name Chickens was the brother-in-law of an influential sachem farther west along the Hudson River named Taphow (Connecticut State Archives, Indian Series Papers 1:92). Taphow was one of several men from western Connecticut who became prominent sachems along the Highland border between New York and New Jersey during the late 1600s and early 1700s. Chickens’ predecessor and namesake, Chickheag, was a sachem in his own right on the colonial Connecticut–New York border. If he followed matrilineal post-marital residence rules requiring that husbands move in with their wives’ families, Chickens would have moved east to Connecticut away from his mother’s and sister’s family home in New Jersey following his marriage to a woman belonging to his brother-in-law Taphow’s family. It was there that he may have been given or assumed his predecessor’s name. A descendant also known as Chickens exchanged his people’s last 100 acres at Lonetown for twice that amount farther north at Schaghticoke in 1748 (Wojciechowski 1985:112). COCKENOE. Cockenoe Island is the name of one of the Norwalk Islands that lie offshore from Norwalk (see below) and Westport on Long Island Sound. Like several other islands in the chain, Cockenoe Island is separated from the mainland by Cockenoe Harbor. Both the island and the harbor are named for Cockinsecko, a prominent Indian culture broker in the region who, identified as Conkuskenoe, put his mark alongside those of Winnapauke (see Winnipauk below) and several other sachems on the February 15, 1651, Indian deed