[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 to land in the area (Hurd 1881:483-484). Local residents evidently adopted the spelling Cockenoe popularized by William Tooker’s (1896) biography of this notable Indian intermediary. Cockenoe Island is currently owned by the Town of Westport and maintained as a bird sanctuary. 35 COMPO. Compo Beach, Compo Point, Compo Cove, and Compo Road in the Town of Westport bear the name of a sachem of Indians living east of Saugatuck identified as Compow by Norwalk colonists (see below) in a deed dated 1660 (Selleck 1886:74-75). The present-day locale was subsequently identified as Compo and Compaw Neck in Indian deeds signed between 1661 and 1680 (in Wojciechowski 1985:96, 98, 103). Developers selling lots for their Compo Beach summer resort on the shores of Cockenoe Harbor (see above) resurrected the name during the early decades of the twentieth century. York in Part 1 above) represents a differently spelling of Cockenoe’s name. changed their last 100 acres there for 200 acres farther into the interior at Schaghticoke (see below) in 1748. A hamlet, a cemetery, and the Lonetown Marsh Sanctuary currently preserve the name in the town. MAMANASCO. Whritenour thinks that Mamanasco may come from a Munsee word, (eenda) *mahmunaskwahk, “(where) grass is habitually gathered.” Today, Mamanasco is the name of a lake, a road, and a residential subdivision in the Town of Ridgefield. It first appeared in colonial records as “a place called Mamanasquag” in a September 30, 1708, deed to land in the area and was mentioned as Mamanasco Hill in a later conveyance dated November 22, 1721 (Teller 1878:3-6, 23-24). The small pond that today bears the name was created to provide water to turn the wheel of the Mamanasco Mill that operated at the locale during the 1700s and 1800s. Construction of the Mamanasco Lake Park development began on the banks of the pond in 1957. MOPUS. Mopus is currently the name of an upper tributary of the Titicus River (see below) that straddles the Connecticut–New York state line. The name, which first appeared in Connecticut colonial records as Mopoos Ridge in an Indian deed to land in the area dated November 22, 1721 (Teller 1878:23-24), today adorns Mopus Brook, Mopus Bridge, and Mopus Road. NARANEKA. Naraneka Lake and Dam are located in the Town of Ridgefield. Completed in 1938, both were originally named for local landowner Seth Low Pierrepont. Pierrepont subsequently renamed the pond Lake Naraneka, a slightly altered spelling of the name of the sachem who signed the November 22, 1721, Indian deed to land in the area as “Tackore otherwise called Norreneca” (Teller 1878:23-24). Like Namanock and Nanuet in New York, both Naraneka and nearby Norrans Ridge (see below) appear to be variant spellings of the Munsee sachem Nowenock. Other places on present-day Ridgefield maps bearing different names noted as KEOFFERAM. Keofferam Road is located on the shores of Green- Nowenock’s aliases by colonial chroniclers adorn Oreneca Road wich Cove on Old Greenwich Neck. It was originally designed to and Tackora Trail. be the main street of the Keofferam Park development built at the locale during the 1910s. The developers found the name in a local NEPAS. Nepas Road is located in the Lake Hills development built history book mentioning Keofferam as one of the Indian signatories in 1952 in the Town of Fairfield. Furnished at the developer’s reto the July 18, 1640, deed to land in the area (Hurd 1881:365-366). quest by the Fairfield Historical Society, Nepas first appeared as Neesenpaus, the name of one of the Indians who signed the October KOHANZA. The names of present-day Upper and Lower Kohanza 6, 1680, Indian deed to land in the area (Wojciechowski 1985:105). 1880s when it was given to the Connecticut State Soldiers Home for Civil War veterans and the railroad station built to serve the facility. Local traditions assert that Noroton comes from Norporiton, an alleged Indian name for the local river not found in colonial records, Trumbull (1881:40, 62), however, thought that Noroton was probably an altered form of Rowayton (see below). NORRANS. Norrans Ridge and Norrans Ridge Drive are located in the Town of Ridgefield. The name first appeared in local records as Nawranawoos Ridge in 1712 (Sanders 2009). It is perhaps another name