Cockawee Path
The outer cliffs of Wester Cove give way to grassy slopes, some of which are easily scalable. The Cockawee Path meanders up and down such a slope just up from the Big Rock.
Marina Gambin writes,
"This narrow path in the Wester Cove led down to a spring well which offered the coolest, freshest, cleanest water.
Before we were granted the convenience of town water, many people who lived on the Hill carried water from the Cockawee Path well. It was common to see girls and women walking in that direction with a wooden hoop and two aluminum buckets. The hoop helped keep the water from slopping.
Sometimes the area was a social gathering place.
The name probably comes from cockawee which is a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States. Maybe cockawees once inhabited this path. Cockawee is also a synonym for 'old squaw, old wife’. Maybe it was named by natives."