Norwottuck

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 Norwootuc, Nonotuck, and Nolwotogg, the latter being the best representation of the local dialect.

[1] White (1903)[2] claims that the territory of the Norwottuck extended "from the 'Great Falls' at South Hadley to Mt Sugarloaf.

The name Mount Norwottuck was given to a mountain previously known as Hilliard Knob in 1841 by Edward Hitchcock.