[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] the which rises in the Town of Shandaken and flows north into Dry Brook in the Town of Hardenbergh on its way to Arkville where it falls into the East Branch of the Delaware River. The 18-mile-long Shandaken Tunnel completed in 1924 transports New York Citybound water from the Schoharie Reservoir to the Esopus Creek (see above) at Allaben (named for local resident Orson M. Allaben) just east of the hamlet of Shandaken. The name also adorns the recently established 5,376-acre Shandaken Wild Forest preserved in its natural state in Catskill State Park. SENASQUA (Westchester County).Whritenour thinks that Senasqua sounds similar to a Munsee word, *asunaskwal, “stony grass.” Today, Senasqua Park (spelled Senassqua Park in the GNIS database) is a small municipal recreational area owned and managed by the Village of Croton-on-Hudson since 1960. The name made its first and only appearance in colonial records in the June 23, 1682, Indian deed to land somewhat north of the present-day park. The deed mentioned a meadow called Senasqua by the Indians located on the east side of the Hudson River across from Stony Point (Westchester County Records, Deed Book A:181-184). SEPASCO (Dutchess County). Whritenour thinks that Sepasco sounds like a Munsee word, *shiipaskwa, “spreading grass.” Today, SHATTEMUC (Rockland and Westchester counties). The Shatte28 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet muc Yacht Club in the village of Ossining (see above) traces its origin to the Sing Sing Yacht Club (see below) founded in 1858. Local paddlers organizing themselves as the Shattemuc Canoe Club in 1884 merged with what was by then known as the Sing Sing Yacht Club to form the Shattemuc Yacht and Canoe Club in 1901. Members evidently found the name in an edition of Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker’s History of New York (first published in 1809). Irving drew the name that he spelled Shatemuck from a paper originally presented at the New-York Historical Society by Samuel Miller in 1809 and published in 1811. Miller (1811:45), in turn, acknowledged that local historian Egbert Benson told him that “Shatemuck was one of the Mahiccan names of the river Hudson.” In a paper of his own presented to the society in 1816, Benson (1825:14-16) noted that the son of an old German settler living at Stissinck (see Stissing below) in 1785 told him that Indians known to his father living nearby and “Wiccapee Indians in the Highlands” (see Wiccopee below) both called the Hudson River Sha-te-muc.” Identified as a Mahican word, it was evidently also used and understood by Munsees living with Mahicans at Stissinck and Wiccopee. The name was popularized by a widely read novel entitled “The Hills of Shatemuck” written by Susan Bogert Warner under her pen name, Elizabeth Wetherill (1856). A recently closed Girl Scout Camp named Camp Sha-Te-Muc was located in the community of Chatham in Columbia County. Today, only the Shattemuc Yacht Club in Westchester County and the Shatemuc Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution across the river in Stony Point carry on the name. SHAWANGUNK (Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster counties). Local residents have pronounced the name Shawangunk (and sometimes spelled it) as Shongum for a very long time. Whritenour finds that the original pronunciation of the name, combined with the locative suffix -unk, produces something that sounds much like a Munsee word, *shaawangung, “in the smoky air.” Today, the name is most widely associated with the Shawangunk Mountains. It is also notably linked with the 35-mile-long northward-flowing Shawangunk Kill that parallels the east-facing slope of the Shawangunk Mountain from the stream’s headwaters just above the New York–New Jersey state line to the hamlet of Gardiner, where it joins the Wallkill River. The name first appeared in colonial records as Sawankonck in the January 24, 1682, Indian deed to a tract of land along the lower reach of the Shawangunk Kill today known as again, this time to its present name, Wallkill, shortly after the Wallkill Valley Railroad completed the section of its line that passed through the village in 1871. Today, the name Shawangunk is most widely associated with the cliffs along the highest part of the mountain ridge in Minnewaska State Park (see in New York in Part 3 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet below) and the Mohonk Preserve (see above). SHEKOMEKO (Columbia and Dutchess counties). Shekomeko is a Mahican name for a mixed community that included many Munsee-speaking people located on Shekomeko Creek, a ten-mile-long tributary of the Roeliff (sometimes spelled Roeloff) Jansen Kill. A Moravian Indian mission stood on Shekomeko Creek’s banks in the present-day hamlet of Bethel from1740 to 1746. Many of the Indians who moved to the Shekomeko mission traced descent to Esopus and Wappinger forebears (see above). Most joined the Moravian missionaries, who had been living two miles away in Pine Plains (see above), in new homes in the Lehigh