Catamount, Massachusetts

Catamount, Massachusetts is an old village that doesn't exist anymore. In the year 1812, the schoolhouse in Catamount was the first to fly the United States flag out front. That schoolhouse doesn't exist anymore either.

Catamount was abandoned as a village because the people found it too remote and mountainous. Now visitors come to the area when they want to go somewhere remote and mountainous.

A catamount is an animal. Depending on the region it lives in, it can be called puma or mountain lion or panther or cougar. Nowadays, when you say cougar people think of middle-aged women like Demi Moore, who eat younger men. But catamounts eat deer, elk and bighorn sheep.


Catamount feels bad about eating that cuddly sheep.
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