Metacomet Ridge
The Metacomet Ridge extends from Branford, Connecticut on Long Island Sound, through the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, to northern Franklin County, Massachusetts. The name “Metacomet” is borrowed from the 17th century sachem of the Wampanoag Tribe of southern New England who led his people during King Philip’s War in the mid–17th century. A number of features associated with the ridge are named after the sachem, including the MetAComet Trail.
About Metacomet Ridge in brief
The Metacomet Ridge extends from Branford, Connecticut on Long Island Sound, through the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, to northern Franklin County, Massachusetts. It is geologically distinct from the nearby Appalachian Mountains and surrounding uplands, and is composed of volcanic basalt and sedimentary rock in faulted and tilted layers many hundreds of feet thick. The ridge rises dramatically from much lower valley elevations, although only 1,200 feet above sea level at its highest, with an average summit elevation of 725 feet. Visually, the Metacometric Ridge exists as one continuous landscape feature from Long. Island Sound at Branford to the end of the Mount Holyoke Range in Belchertown, Massachusetts, a distance of 71 miles, broken only by. river gorges of the Farmington River in northern Connecticut and the Westfield and Connecticut. Rivers in Massachusetts. The name “Metacomet” is borrowed from the 17th century sachem of the Wampanoag Tribe of southern New England who led his people during King Philip’s War in the mid–17th century. A number of features associated with the ridge are named after the sachem, including the MetAComet Trail. The Sierra Club has referred to the entire range in Connecticut as “The Traprock Ridge’’. Until January 2008, the United States Board on Geographic Names did not recognize Metacmet Ridge, Traprok Ridge or any other name, although several sub-ranges were identified. This article describes the entire Metacometer Ridge and all geologic extensions of it.
It includes the names of at least sixteen landscape features and over seventy-five businesses, schools, and civic organizations throughout New England. Beginning at high-ridges in southern southern Connecticut, the ridge commences as two parallel ridges with outcrops in between; the latter include the isolated butte–like cliffs of East Rock and Peter’s Rock. The western ridgeline of the ridge begins in New Haven, Connecticut, as West Rock and continues as Mount Sanford, Mount Peck Mountain, Prospect Ridge, and Giant Giant Rock. To the east is the rocky prominence of Beacon Hill overlooking the East Haven River, overlooking the Sleeping River estuary in Connecticut. The eastern ridge begins as a series of low profile out crops just short of Southington, Connecticut and ends as Sleeping River Hills in Meriden, Connecticut. The eastern ridgelines of the western ridges begin as high as 130 feet in Branford and 130 feet on the Beacon Hill in Connecticut, and continue as a rocky prominence on the eastern edge of the Beacon Hills in Connecticut and on the western edge of Meriden. It ends as a high profile outcropping of rocky prominence overlooking the east estuary of the East River River overlooking the sleeping river in East Haven, East Haven and East Haven. It also includes the high peaks of Mount Sanford,. Mount Peck, Peck Mountain and Prospect Ridge.
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