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Santapogue Neck

Santapogue is recorded as a neck of land in Babylon, south of the settlement of Breslau, now Lindenhurst. Santapogue was one of the five meadow necks bought in 1659. The name appears in Huntington records by 1669 with spellings including Santtapauge, Santapauge, Santepaug, and Santepogue. Santapogue is interpreted as "a place of cool water," probably named for a cold spring on the neck. Why Place Names Matter “The act of renaming geographical names in the Indigenous language is part of a decolonizing project and is a way to make visible the connection to the land, to the knowledge connected to it, and to a cultural heritage.” — Coppélie Cocq, Traditional knowledge – New experts (2017), Article discussion of Indigenous-language geographical naming