Talk:Signal Hill (Canton, Massachusetts)

Turtle Hill
Also called ‘Turtle Hill’, in historic times. It’s name was colloquially changed to Signal Hill when an early aeronautical radio beacon was placed atop the hill in the first half of the 20th century. During the Paleolithic era, when the first humans to settle the area began visiting the hill, it was positioned next to glacial ‘Lake Neponset’. A huge ice dam had caused the river to back up into a large lake that covered a vast area, which can now be seen as the low lying wetland floodplain surrounding the present day course of the Neponset. During this time, the New England landscape was tundra-like, and Signal Hill was on a seasonal route for migrating herds of caribou. 108.20.40.81 (talk) 05:21, 1 February 2022 (UTC)