Hammonasset River

The Hammonasset River is formed about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Durham, Connecticut along a gully on the north end of Bunker Hill at about a half mile northeast of the junction of Route 148 and Bunker Hill Road. The river travels for 21.0 miles (33.8 km)^[1] to Clinton Harbor on Long Island Sound just east of Hammonasset Beach State Park. A popular paddling route runs for about 10 miles (16 km) starting along Summer Hill Road about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south on Route 79 from North Madison, Connecticut. This is a scenic river run with mostly flat and quickwater, but with a few Class I-II whitewater areas.

The Hammonasset were a tribe of Algonquian Native Americans who had their "digging grounds" in this part of Connecticut, from the west bank of the Connecticut River to the Hammonasset River along the coast.^[2] The act of the Connecticut General Court, May 10, 1666, that established New London County mentioned as the county's western bounds "Homonoscet Plantation", which was settled by the English in 1663, now Killingworth. The name was also spelled "Homonoscitt" in some records.^[3]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
^ Mattabesic: Hammonasset Archived 2012-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. The "Hammonasset Line" of stones and "cairns": New England Antiquities Research Association: "Hammonasset Line" Archived 2012-02-21 at the Wayback Machine; "The Hammonasset Line" Archived 2013-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Four Fry siblings of Weymouth, Massachusetts Archived 2011-08-28 at the Wayback Machine." The University of Winnipeg, 20 March 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2011.

External links

Connecticut Explorer's Guide - paddling map of the Hammonasset River
https://web.archive.org/web/20130927185519/http://www.cslib.org/tribes.htm - Connecticut Native American Tribes

41°16′40″N 72°32′51″W / 41.27768°N 72.54751°W / 41.27768; -72.54751

Rivers of Connecticut by drainage system

Long Island Sound

Black Rock Harbor	Ash Creek Rooster River
Bridgeport Harbor	Pequonnock River
Connecticut River Watershed	Blackledge River Coginchaug River Connecticut River Duck River Eightmile River Falls River Farmington River Hockanum River Hubbard River Jeremy River Lieutenant River Mattabesset River Nepaug River Pameacha Creek Park River Pequabuck River Podunk River Salmon River Scantic River
Housatonic River Watershed	Blackberry River East Aspetuck River Housatonic River Konkapot River Mad River Naugatuck River Pomperaug River Rocky River Schenob Brook Shepaug River Still River Ten Mile River Whiting River
Little Narragansett Bay (Pawcatuck River Watershed)	Ashaway River Green Fall River Pawcatuck River Shunock River Wood River
Milford Harbor	Wepawaug River
New Haven Harbor	Mill River Quinnipiac River West River
Norwalk Harbor (Norwalk River Watershed)	Norwalk River Silvermine River
Saugatuck River Watershed	Aspetuck River Saugatuck River
Thames River Watershed	Basset Brook Beaver Brook Bigelow Brook Fenton River Fishers Brook Five Mile River French River Hop River Little River Merrick Brook Moosup River Mount Hope River Natchaug River Oxoboxo River Pachaug River Quinebaug River Shetucket River Thames River Willimantic River Yantic River
Others	Black Hall River Byram River Cove River Farm River Hammonasset River Indian River Mianus River Mill River (Fairfield) Mystic River Niantic River Noroton River Oyster River Rippowam River

Upper New York Bay

Hudson River Watershed	Titicus River

v t e Coastal waterbodies of Connecticut
Bays	Little Narragansett Bay
Coves	Smith Cove Wequetequock Cove Wethersfield Cove Ziegler's Cove
Harbors	Black Rock Harbor Bridgeport Harbor Kidd Harbor New Haven Harbor Norwalk Harbor
River mouths	Black Hall River Byram River Connecticut River Farm River Hammonasset River Housatonic River Mianus River Mill River (Fairfield) Mystic River Niantic River Noroton River Oyster River Rippowam River Saugatuck River Thames River
Sounds	Long Island Sound