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Posted on December 18, 2006 | Category: Picture of the Day, Places
I was in Waldenbooks yesterday and saw a book on waterfalls in New England which said Rhode Island has only one waterfall worthy of your attention. However the book neglected to mention that there are some man made waterfalls associated with mill towns worthy of your attention, so today’s picture is one of them. This waterfall is located off of route 2 south, just after a Sunoco, and down Old Shannock Road beside a narrow white-fenced bridge just a little ways before the town of Shannock. Which was the Indian name for squirrel apparently.
The descriptive language of the Indian is credited with the origin of the name “Shannock.” “Mishanneke” was the Indian word for “squirrel.” The word then allegedly evolved to “Mishanneke falls” to “Shanneke” and finally “Shannock.” In an ambitious and lengthy work entitled “A Historical and Legendary Poem,” Millen S. Greene, a nineteenth century poet, local historian and teacher, subscribed to the Indian theory of the origin of Shannock’s name.
And Shannock, too! But this a squirrel means
When rendered into Yankee phrase I ween;
(By the way, our friends might think it quite ill
to change “Shannock” into “Squirrel Hill”.)
Check out this site for more information about Shannock
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