page_title: Norwottuck
section_title: Toponymy
hierarchical_section_title: Norwottuck / Toponymy
caption_attribution_description: English: Mount Norwottuck in the Mount Holyoke range, on the border between the towns of Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts.
context_page_description: Norwottuck is the Algonquian name for an area that is now Northampton and Hadley, Massachusetts. It is also used to refer to the Algonquian people who once lived there, who were part of the Pocumtuck Confederacy. Early English documents also refer to the area and people by the orthographic variants Nonotuck and Nolwotogg, the latter being the best representation of the local dialect.
context_section_description: Many local geographical and other features are named for the Norwottuck. The name Mount Norwottuck was given to a mountain previously known as Hilliard Knob in 1841 by Edward Hitchcock. 
   The Norwottuck Rail Trail is likewise named after the people.
caption: Mount Norwottuck is named for the Norwottuck.
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