In Rhode Island, often said to be fromMassachusettMontaup, but there is little to back up this claim. That word has been compared toMontauk, but may not be identical.[1] Alternatively, named after thePuritanvirtue of Hope, or fromOld Norsehóp(“narrow bay”).[2]
MountHope
- A place inAustralia:
- A smallsettlement inCobar Shire, westernNew South Wales.
- A smalltown inLower Eyre Peninsula district council area,South Australia.
- Ahill (granite outcrop) in northernVictoria.
- A number of places in theUnited States, including:
- Atown inOrange County,New York.
- Ahill inBristol,Rhode Island.
- ^William H. Babcock (1913) “Early Norse Visits to North America”, inSmithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume59, number19,→OCLC,page138
- ^Thomas Williams Bicknell (1898)A History of Barrington, Rhode Island, Providence: Snow & Farnham,→OCLC,page10
