THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899. The Town of Stockbridge. With the exception of the two towns of Oneida and Canastota, erected from Lenox in 1896, Stockbridge was the latest formed town in Madison county. It was set off from Vernon and Augusta in Oneida county, and Smithfield and Lenox in Madison county on May 20, 1836.
squash verb (END) âº [ T ] to stop something from continuing to exist or happen, by forceful action: Rumours of a possible takeover of the company were soon squashed by the management.
Squash comes from the Narragansett Native American word askutasquash, which means eaten raw or uncooked.. Squashes are one of the oldest known crops--10,000 years by some estimates of sites in Mexico. Since squashes are gourds, they most likely served as containers or utensils because of their hard shells.