Cogin-Chuggers Square Dance Club

Durham, Connecticut

CASDAC Club of the Month Dance Friday,  October 31, 2008

Member of the Connecticut Association of Square Dance Clubs (CASDC)

Dances usually held on the second Friday of each month from September through June at the Brewester School, Tuttle Road, Durham, Connecticut.  

Plus level Dancing with a A-1 tip,  Round Dancing throughout the evening   8:00pm – 10:30pm

· Club Caller:    Ed Rutty edrutty3@snet.net

· Club Cuer:      Sue Lucibello slucibello@webtv.net          

Contacts:

· June Barton june_barton@yahoo.com

· John Sherman   jsherman80@cox.net

· David McElroy (webmaster) dmcelroy@starband.net

 

Cogin-Chuggers? (Coginchaug)

Historically, it was the Native American name of the area used by the Mattabesset tribe for hunting. It is said to have meant "Great Swamp" or "Long Swamp."

According to William Chauncey Fowler's "History of Durham," land in Coginchaug was first deeded in 1662 to John Talcott by the General Court. In 1672, a deed was written between the native proprietors of the territory and Europeans who wished to purchase it from them. Entitled "Deed of Cawginchaug from Tarramuggus, &c.," we can read verbatim about the transfer of "one Tract of land comonly known by the name of Cawginchaug" from the native inhabitants to the European settlers.