While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Ammoncongan. A village, probably be longing to the
Abnaki, on the N. E. side of Presumpscot r., at Saccarappa falls, Cumberland
co., Me. Deed of 1657 in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., I, 118, 1865.
Aquadocta. The dwelling place of "a tribe of Indians"
in 1690, living westward from Casco and Saco, Me. , and seemingly allied with
the
Abnaki. Niles (ca. 1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. ,3d s. , vi, 217, 1837.
Asnela. A small island in Penobscot r., Me., occupied
by the Penobscot. The name is derived from that of an Indian called Assen or
Ossen. Gatschet, Penobscot MS., B. A. E., 1887.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
