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Introduction
Pesapunck has continuously remained as farmland from the earliest colonial period to the present, but the place-name translates to “hothouse,” which once stood there. The ‘hot-house’ is now more commonly referred to as a ‘sweat lodge.’
On Long Island, they were described as six to eight feet tall, round, and built on the side of a brook or hill – with ten to twenty men entering and heating the interior to extreme temperature for cleansing their mind and body – sweat lodges are still used today.