Lake Chargog Ga What?

• Position: Americana

The sprawling lake with its even more sprawling name (we're only going to say it once)--Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg--is not for the tongue-tied. Some folks just call it Lake Webster, after the Massachusetts town where it's located. But the original and unabridged version holds the honor of being the longest place name in the United States. And what do all those syllables mean? In the 1920s, a local newspaper reporter wrote that the lake's name was a Nipmuc Indian word...