[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 30 and 31, 1656, conveyances to land in the area (in C. Street 1887-1889 1:6-7; Palstits 1910 2:403-405). A businessman named William Codling selected the sachem’s name exactly as it was spelled in the 1656 deeds for his Asharoken Beach development built in Huntington during the early 1900s. Residents intent on controlling local services formally incorporated the community as the Village of Asharoken in 1925. Use of the name has since expanded to include a number of natural and cultural features in and around the village. ASHOKAN (Ulster County). Whritenour thinks that Ashokan sounds like the Munsee word aashookaan, “people are walking in the water.” Today, Ashokan is the name of a dam, a reservoir, and a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains in New York. A passing reference to a path leading from a local farmer’s residence “to Ashokan” set down on October 8, 1706, represents the earliest known notice of the name (Brink 1910 10:100). Other records show that colonists began building settlements in and around the area by the 1730s. The area’s post office bore the name Ashocan (similar to, but different from Shehawken, see below) for two months before the postmaster acquiring land along the Esopus Creek (see below) in the towns of Hurley and Olive. The 123-billion-gallon impoundment (the second largest in the New York City Water Supply System) completed in 1917 required relocation of the hamlet of Ashokan and several other settlements to higher ground. The hamlet of Ashokan currently lies just north of the reservoir along New York State Route 28 in the Town of Olive. Musicians Jay and Molly Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell,” the lilting melody featured in the 1990 Civil War minisARMONK (Westchester County). Whritenour thinks that Armonk eries on PBS, has considerably broadened awareness of this locally most closely resembles a Munsee word, *alumung, “place of dogs.” prominent place name. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 7 AWOSTING (Ulster County). Whritenour thinks it likely that Awosting comes from a Munsee word, *awasahtung, “the other side of the mountain.” Awosting Lake is located in the heart of the Minnewaska State Park Preserve (see New York listings in Part 3). The name first appeared as a Shawangunk Mountain hill or foothill (see below) identified as Aiaskawasting at the northwestern end of the vast tract of land that took in much of northern Orange County purchased by New York governor Thomas Dongan on September 10, 1684 (Fried 2005:32). Like many other names, Awosting has been moved around a bit. The word itself had been all but forgotten when a local businessman trading on romantic associations sparked by Indian names rechristened the blandly named Big Pond in the 1942. The boys’ camp was acquired by new owners who kept the name Awosting when they transferred operations to the camp’s present location in Connecticut. The Lake Awosting locale in New York subsequently served as a coed camp from 1949 to 1966 and as a retreat site between 1968 and 1970. It was finally sold to the State of New York in 1971 as part of the first parcel of 7,000 acres acquired for conversion into parkland. The name has also been applied to the 90-foot-high Awosting Falls located several miles to the north of the lake. CAHOONZIE (Orange County). Whritenour thinks that Cahoonzie sounds like the Munsee word kawunzhung, “place of thistles or thorns.” Cahoonzie is the name of a hamlet, a lake, and a street in the Town of Deerpark. The name was first mentioned as “the old Kehoonge footpath near the Delaware River” in a note dated May 11 1804, written by local surveyor Peter E. Gumaer (Ogden 1983:26). A few years later, Gumaer made several references to a locality first identified as Kehoonge and even later, in 1853, as Kehoonzie (Ogden 1983:230). The present-day community of Cahoonzie was called Pleasant Valley by its founders during the early 1790s. Folk traditions unsupported by documentary evidence hold that the hamlet was subsequently renamed for Cahoonzie, the purported chief of Delaware Indian word for “long grass.” A cognate of Canarsie occurs in the form Canarese in the State of Delaware (see below). Conoy, a similar-sounding word that Iroquois people used when talking about Algonquian-speaking Piscataway Indians in nearby Maryland, is probably an English rendering of the Iroquoian term ganawagha (Kenny 1961:5-6). Whatever its etymology, Canarsie has become a byword for Brooklyn. Ask anyone in the borough— most will tell you that the Canarsees were Brooklyn’s original inhabitants. The name more properly refers to a place rather than a polity. Like Minisink far to the west (see below), the Canarsie section in modern-day Brooklyn became the last refuge of the borough’s first people. Dutch purchase of three flats that Indians variously identified as Castuteeuw and Keskateuw on the island they noted as Sewanhacky (present-day Long Island) in 1636 (Gehring