[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] the minds of city officials, corpo12 rate executives, conservationists, and copy editors, who see to it that news of the latest run-ins pitting contending interest groups against one another reaches their readers. HACKENSACK (Rockland County). The headwaters of the Hackensack River rise in the New York county of Rockland before flowing south into New Jersey. See the entry for Hackensack in New Jersey for further information. HAVERSTRAW (Rockland County). Haverstraw is a Dutch word meaning “oat straw,” also spelled Averstraw and Heardstroo in deeds dating to the 1680s. The name has been used since colonial times to identify Indians whose settlements were located within a triangular stretch of lowland along the west bank of the Hudson River. The area is flanked by the Hudson Highlands and the Ramapo Mountains (see below) to the north and west, and by South Mountain and Hook Mountain to the south. Today, The Town and City of Haverstraw occupy this lowland by the wide section of the Hudson River above the Tappan Zee (see below) called Haverstraw Bay. Dutch colonists used the name Haverstraw to identify Indians variously identified in their own language as Rumachenancks, Reweghnoncks, and Rechgawawancks (the latter thought by Whritenour to sound like a Munsee word, *leekuwaawunge, “sandy hill”). Chroniclers wrote about Indians known by these names at Haverstraw from the 1640s to the end of the century (Grumet 1981:25-26). Haverstraw was subsequently depicted as a colonial town on local maps of the region. The place also was among the first municipalities in the Hudson Valley formally established as a town at the end of the Revolutionary War. The local post office adopted the name Haverstraw when it opened in 1815 (Kaiser 1965). The postmaster of the office opened at North Haverstraw in 1834 changed the name to Grassy Point in 1847 (Kaiser 1965). North Haverstraw finally disappeared from maps altogether when it was absorbed into the Town of Stony Point at the time of its incorporation in 1865. The West Haverstraw community founded during the early 1800s remains a village in the Town of Haverstraw. HONK (Ulster County). Whritenour thinks that Honk, which resembles a Munsee word, *-ahneek, “stream,” and its pidgin Delaware equivalent, -hanek, may be an abbreviated recording of a longer place name missing its initial descriptive semantic element. Honk is presently the name of a hill, a waterfall, and a lake located above Honk Falls in the Rondout River valley just west of the City of Ellenville. Water from the lake cascades over falls that gradually descend in stages 70 feet through a narrow gorge into the fast-running stream that then flows past Ellenville before turning north to run parallel to the Shawangunk Ridge (see below). Although dams have been built to harness Honk’s waterpower, the cascade, which is barely visible through noted on July 6, 1705, in “the County of Ulster on the Waggackemek [Neversink] Creek or River beginning by a certain tract of land called by the Indian name of Nawesinck from thence running down said creek to a certain fall in said creek called Hoonckh” (Ulster County Records, Deed Book AA:353). This appearance of the same name in two different locales in the same general area probably was an error mistakenly combining the nearby Neversink and Rondout rivers together into a single stream. INDIAN FIELD (Bronx County). Indian Field in the Bronx is located in Van Cortlandt Park in the Katonah section (see below) of the borough on East 233rd Street between Van Cortlandt Park East and Jerome Avenue. The name marks the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Cortlandt Ridge fought on August 31, 1778. Outmaneuvered by Loyalist Queen’s Rangers under the command of John Graves Simcoe (the future first governor of Upper Canada; today’s province of Ontario), Captain Abraham Nimham, commander of the Continental Army’s Stockbridge Indian Rifle Company, his father Daniel Nimham (see below), and at least 15 other men belonging to the unit were killed in the engagement. Wappinger Indians Abraham and Daniel Nimham and several of their companions were direct descendants of ancestors who had lived in and around the Bronx long before rebels or redcoats ever came to America. JOGEE (Orange County). Jogee Road and Jo Gee Hill in the Minisink town community of Slate Hill are named for Joghem (Dutch for Joseph), the nickname used by one of the principal Indian signatories of the deed that conveyed much of the land in present-day Orange County to New York governor Thomas Dongan on September 10, 1684 (Budke 1975a:56-59). Joghem was an influential sachem also noted as Sherikam, Choukass, Sekomeek, and Shawaghkommin in deeds to lands in the lower Hudson River valley signed between 1663 and 1712. KAKIAT (Rockland County). Today, Kakiat County Park is located in the Town of Ramapo (see below). Most places bearing similarly spelled versions