Nehantuck

Nehantuck is an old name associated with the Niantic River and the land beside its tidal waters. The Western Niantic lived in this part of southern New England, where the river opens toward Long Island Sound. Its name has been understood as a point of land on a tidal river. Colonial land records from the mid-seventeenth century refer to ground at the head of the Nehantuck, as English settlement spread into the surrounding country.