Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Appaquogue

Appaquogue, also written Apoquogue, is identified as an East Hampton placename for a farming district near a flaggy meadow. The same source notes that the vicinity was locally called Lily Pond. It is kept separate from Apocock in Westhampton because the sources describe different places, even though the names share a related meaning. Appaquogue preserves an East Hampton placename tied to a flaggy meadow near the Lily Pond area, where useful wetland plants were part of the local landscape. Its interpretation as a place where flags grow points to Native ecological knowledge and to materials used in mats, coverings, and everyday life. The name links language, plants, water, and community use in one remembered place. Appaquogue was known in East Hampton township, though no early town source has been tied to the available references yet. The placename is best understood here through local...