Walker Pond is a body of water in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, situated off Route 49 on the way to Wells State Park. The pond took its name from settler Rachael "Walker" Smith, a local resident who raised twelve Italian children there. In 1894, the town of Sturbridge voted to rename the pond Tantousque Lake, from an Indian word meaning "located between tw…Walker Pond is a body of water in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, situated off Route 49 on the way to Wells State Park. The pond took its name from settler Rachael "Walker" Smith, a local resident who raised twelve Italian children there. In 1894, the town of Sturbridge voted to rename the pond Tantousque Lake, from an Indian word meaning "located between two breast-shaped hills." The traditional Indian name did not, however, stick.
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