[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Fort Roosa was built at MAHOPAC (Putnam County). Whritenour thinks that Mahopac Roosa’s Gap, a low point in the Shawangunk Mountain ridge (see sounds much like a Munsee word, meexpeek, “that which is a lot of below) just north of Wurtsboro. Population gradually began to conwater.” Today, Mahopac is the name of a lake and several nearby centrate along the lowlands just south of Fort Devans at a place origcommunities, roads, and other places along the headwaters of the inally called Mamakating Hollow during and after the Muscoot River (see below). Mahopac appears to be a linguistic hy- Revolutionary War. The size of the local population grew large brid combining two similar-looking place names located near one enough to warrant incorporation of a town that residents named Maanother. The earliest of these names, variously spelled Meconap and makating in 1788. The community of Mamakating at the center of Mecopap, appeared in a deed conveying land in the area signed on the town supported a church by 1805 and a post office that opened August 13, 1702 (Pelletreau 1886, Plate 2). The other word is in 1817 (Kaiser 1965). Briefly rechristened Rome, construction of Wakapa, noted as the name of a creek on a map prepared for use in the Delaware and Hudson Canal through the community changed a local boundary dispute in 1753 (Library of Congress, Maps of everything, including its name, which became Wurtsboro in 1828 North America 1750-1789, Map 1083). Although Wakapa surely in honor of the canal company’s founder who had briefly lived at referred to modern-day Wiccopee Creek (see below), the map ex- the locale. Today, Mamakating serves as the name of the town, as tended the route of the stream much beyond its southern terminus Mamakating Park, a residential community originally planned to be in the Hudson Highlands to a place very close to an unnamed body a resort destination just west of Wurtsboro, and as the Mamakating of water that most likely represented today’s Lake Mahopac. Town Park in the Village of Bloomingburg. Whatever its original name, modern-day Lake Mahopac was variously known as Great Pond and Hughson’s Pond (for a set- MAMARONECK (Westchester County). Nora Thompson Dean tler who moved to its shores in 1740) at different times during the (in Kraft and Kraft 1985:45) thought that Mamaroneck sounded colonial era. The name Mahopac began appearing with increasing similar to the Southern Unami word mehëmalunèk, “place to frequency during and after the Revolutionary War, first as the name dance.” Whritenour thinks the name sounds like a Munsee word, of the lake referred to in Spafford’s (1813:152) gazetteer as Ma- *maamaalahneek, “striated stream.” Today, Mamaroneck is the hopack Pond, and later as the name of Mahopack Falls at Red Mills name of a river, a reservoir, a harbor, a neck, a town, a village, and southwest of the lake. It was noted finally in its present form as the much else on and near the Long Island shoreline in Westchester Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 15 County. The name appeared with corresponding frequency during when the hamlet was incorporated as the Village of Mamaroneck in 1895. The five-mile-long Mamaroneck River continues to flow through the village parallel to Mamaroneck Avenue. The river’s waters rise just one mile south of the Old Mamaroneck Road neighborhood in White Plains. From there, it flows southeast past Mamaroneck Neck into Long Island Sound at Mamaroneck Harbor. MANETTO (Nassau and New York counties). Whritenour thinks the name first noted as Mannatts Hill in an Indian land sale in the present-day Long Island Village of Plainview made on October 18, 1695 (Cox 1916-1940 4:513-514) closely resembles the Munsee word méeneet, “drunkard.” He further believes that the latter word bears no direct etymological relation to the similar-sounding Munsee word, manutoow, “spirit being.” The name of the community of Manetto in modern-day Nassau County remained on local maps until 1885, when postal authorities rejected a request that they give it to the place’s newly built post office. Stating that the name Manetto too closely resembled another name elsewhere in the state, the officials suggested that community members choose a different name. They responded by giving the name Plainview to the new postal branch and the community that it served. The name did not totally disappear in the area, however. Manetto Hill survives today the same way that same year on the Velasco map discovered in the early twentieth century in Spanish archives. Manahata on the map was located on the west side of the present-day Hudson River across from Manahatin on the river’s east bank (no island is depicted). This 16 map, represented and regarded since its discovery as a spy map based on information culled from Henry Hudson’s since-lost journal, may be a forgery (see Allen 2006, but also see Goddard