The Hockomock River is a
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed April 1, 2011 stream in
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It is a tributary of the
Town River.
''Hockomock'' is said to mean "Place where Spirits Dwell" in the
Wampanoag language
The Massachusett dialects, as well as all the Southern New England Algonquian (SNEA) languages, could be dialects of a common SNEA language just as Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible languages that essentially exist in a diale ...
. The river arises in the
Hockomock Swamp The Hockomock Swamp is a vast wetland encompassing much of the northern part of southeastern Massachusetts. This land is considered the largest freshwater swamp in the state. It acts as a natural flood control mechanism for the region.
History
Dur ...
, and flows south to its confluence with the Town River, which eventually joins the
Taunton River to empty into
Mount Hope Bay
Mount Hope Bay is a tidal estuary located at the mouth of the Taunton River on the Massachusetts and Rhode Island border. It is an arm of Narragansett Bay. The bay is named after Mount Hope, a small hill located on its western shore in what is ...
.
References
Town River 2003 Shoreline Survey Result
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Rivers of Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Taunton River watershed
Rivers of Massachusetts