Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Sacut (Success Pond)

Sacut is recorded as the Native name for Success Pond at Lakeville in North Hempstead. The pond was formerly known as Success Pond. The source notes that Sacut may have shifted in sound into Success and cites nineteenth-century descriptions of the pond and its former outlet. Sacut is interpreted as "at the outlet," from a word for the outlet of a pond or stream flowing out of a pond, with a locative ending meaning at or near. Why Place Names Matter “Place-names link us to the landscape, and by so doing give useful insight into a people’s traditional way of life.” — Nna O. Uluocha, Decolonizing place-names: Strategic imperative for preserving indigenous cartography in post-colonial Africa (2015), Significance of toponyms, paragraph 3