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This Week Jun 9, 2026
Mohawk Mountain

Mohawk Mountain

June 9 Edition Glad you’re back. This week: three seats left at the table, a mountain with a complicated name, and a few things worth leaving the house for. Patrick The Litchfield Ledger LAST CALL FOR DINNER CLUB We’re down to the last three seats for Dinner Club at The Lost Fox. One long table, a prix fixe dinner by Chef Thomas Burke, a little jazz, and an evening built for conversation. Save your seat here. Courtesy of CT State Parks WHY IS IT CALLED MOHAWK MOUNTAIN? Mohawk Mountain rises in Cornwall, Connecticut. You may have driven past it. You may have skied it. You may never have asked why it has that name. According to DEEP, Tunxis and Paugussett people used the ridge as a signal point. From that elevation, they sent smoke signals warning nearby communities as Mohawk raiding parties moved in from the north and west. The Mohawk did not live on this mountain.

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