Ware High School - Limelight Yearbook (Ware, MA)

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F OREWORD Through a green New England valley fiows a river, the Ware, which has given its name to the largest of the several communities scattered along its banks. The word Ware , at first thought a queer name for a town, has an unusual meaning. It is a translation of the Indian word Nenameseck which means fishing basket or fish trap . Long before the white man strayed into the wilderness, the Quabaug Indians had found good fishing at the falls of this broad stream, and yearly came to camp beside it during the salmon season. ln addition to spearing the fish as they leaped the tumbling waters, the Indians built traps of twigs and branches at the foot of the falls. Nenameseck, they called these traps, and Nenameseck, they named the river. The sturdy settlers who presently chose our township for their pioneering translat- ed the indian name Nenameseck into weir , the word they had used in the Old Country for fish trap, but being Scotch lrish, they pronounced it ware . Hence came Ware, the white man's name for the river and then for the town on its banks. It is a name with an Indian back- ground. It is a name with a history. Even as the Town Seal preserves the figure of an indian spearing his salmon, so the title of our high school annual keeps alive the ancient and beautiful name of our river - NENAMESECK.