Editing Willimantic, Maine (section)

==Name==
The town was originally named Howard; after the [[Willimantic Linen Company]] erected a woodworking factory in 1879 to produce spools for thread, it was renamed in 1881 to Willimantic, after [[Willimantic, Connecticut]].<ref name="PAST">{{cite web | title=History of Willimantic, The Thread City | author=Public Archaeology Survey Team | url=http://www.past-inc.org/Willimantic/overall_history.htm | access-date=June 6, 2018}}</ref> The name Willimantic was first rendered by English colonists as ''Waramanticut'' in 1684,<ref name="PublicRecords">{{cite book | last=Trumbull | first=J. Hammond | title=The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, May, 1678 - June, 1689 | publisher=Case, Lockwood & Co. | year=1859 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3h8oAQAAMAAJ | access-date=June 5, 2018 | page=202}}</ref><ref name="Douglas-Lithgow 1909">{{cite book | last=Douglas-Lithgow | first=Robert Alexander | title=Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England: with many interpretations, etc | publisher=Salem Press | year=1909 | url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer00doug | access-date=June 5, 2018 | page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer00doug/page/296 296]}}</ref> and its origin is [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] (either [[Mohegan-Pequot language|Mohegan-Pequot]] or [[Narragansett language|Narragansett]]). The meaning is uncertain, with one translation being "land of the swift running water," and another, "place near the evergreen swamp."<ref name="Etymology">{{cite web |last1=Eves |first1=Jamie H. |last2=Eves |first2=Katherine L. S. |url=http://www.millmuseum.org/history/swift-waters-the-industrial-environment/swift-waters-or-cedar-swamp/ |title=Swift Waters or Cedar Swamp? Native American Placenames in Connecticut and the Meaning of "Willimantic" |publisher=[[Windham Textile and History Museum]] |access-date=June 4, 2018 }}</ref>