Editing Killingly, Connecticut (section)

==History==
In 1653, [[John Winthrop the Younger|the second John Winthrop]], son of Massachusetts Bay Colony's founding governor, obtained a grant of land formerly held by the Quinebaug Indian tribe and known as the Quinebaug (Long Pond) Country. The name ''Quinebaug'' comes from the southern [[New England]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] term, spelled variously {{lang|nai|Qunnubbâgge}}, {{lang|nai|Quinibauge}}, etc., meaning "long pond", from {{lang|nai|qunni-}}, "long", and {{lang|nai|-paug}}, "pond".<ref>{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|title=Native American placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA405|access-date=April 14, 2011|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=405}}</ref>

The area in that grant, which is now occupied by Killingly, was first settled by English colonists in 1700. It was first called "Aspinock", a word which may have come from the combination of the [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|native term]] "aucks" or "ock" (the place of/where) and the name of the [[English people|English]] settler, Lieutenant Aspinwall. When the town was incorporated in May 1708, [[Gurdon Saltonstall|Colony Governor Saltonstall]] was asked to suggest a name. Saltonstall's ancestral manorial possessions lay in Killanslie and Pontefract, Yorkshire, hence he suggested “Kellingly” (the spelling was later altered).
[[File:Davis Park gazebo, Killingly, Connecticut.jpg|thumb|Davis Park]]

During the 1830s, Killingly was the state's largest producer of cotton goods, manufacturing textiles in mills from cotton shipped from the Deep South. By the 1930s, it was an important producer of window curtains.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.killinglyhistorical.org/museum/local-history-of-danielson|title=Local History|publisher=Killingly Historical and Genealogical Society|access-date=April 15, 2020}}</ref>