[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] it was Tatomuck in Connecticut for further information. established on former estate land atop Clausland Mountain acquired by the Town of Orangetown in 2003. TITICUS (Westchester County). In New York, Titicus is the name of a mountain, a dam, a reservoir created by the dam, and the river TACKAPAUSHA (Nassau County). Tackapausha Preserve (ac- flowing into the impoundment from Connecticut. The New York quired by Nassau County in 1938) and Museum (opened in 1964) City Water Supply System’s Titicus Reservoir was first built when are located on an 84-acre tract of land along the border separating engineers dammed the Titicus River in 1893. Water released by the villages of Seaford and Massapequa (see above). The property sluiceways from the dam runs through the nearby hamlet of Purdys was named for Tackapausha, the sachem of Massapequa who served into the Croton River just above the Muscoot Reservoir (see above). his people as their most prominent intermediary with colonists on Several miles farther south, 925-foot-high Titicus Mountain (known western Long Island from 1643 to 1699. The name also formerly in colonial times as Tom Spring Mountain) is located near Sal J. graced the Tackapousha Hotel, a popular hostelry frequented by vis- Prezioso Mountain Lakes Park. See the entry for Titicus in Conitors to Far Rockaway resort beaches in Queens County during the necticut for further information. early 1900s. TUXEDO (Orange County). Noting that spellings of the place TACONIC (Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester coun- name Tuxedo preserved in colonial records resemble a Munsee anties). Whritenour thinks that Taconic sounds like the Munsee words imate noun referring to members of the wolf phratry, Whritenour *takwahneek, “adjoining stream,” and *wtakwahneek, “gentle thinks that Tuxedo sounds like *ptukwsiituw, “there are wolf phratry stream.” Today, the name is most closely associated with the 104- members.” He goes on to point out that the root word of the Munsee mile-long Taconic State Parkway built between 1929 and 1961. The wolf phratry name ptukwsiit, “round foot,” generally refers to dogs, road’s right of way extends from the Bronx River Parkway at Ken- foxes, and bears as well as wolves. Perhaps the name refers to the sico north to its junction with the Berkshire Extension of the New original Tuxedo Pond’s round, paw-like shape. York State Thruway (Interstate 90) in Columbia County. Various The name was first noted in 1735 as Tucseto and Tuxseto spellings of the name in and around the Hudson River valley adorn in entries made by Charles Clinton into his survey field book laying such places as Lake Taghkanic State Park, the 909-acre Taconic- out Cheesecocks Patent lands (Freeland 1898:13). Today, the name Hereford Multiple Use Area in Pleasant Valley, and the multiple- Tuxedo in its original location adorns a town, the Village of Tuxedo unit Taconic State Park. The name first appeared as Tachkanick, a Park, and an artificial lake and dam at the western end of the village. mixed Esopus-Mahican community whose leaders sold the land Tuxedo Lake also has been identified as Duckcedar Pond and purchased by Robert Livingston as the nucleus for his Livingston Round Pond in the past. Manor on August 10, 1685 (Brooklyn Historical Society, Livingston The Tuxedo area was a center of New York’s iron industry Family Papers, Folio 11). between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. The Town of Tuxedo itself was first incorporated as Southfields in 1863 at a time when TAPPAN (Rockland and Westchester counties). Heckewelder local companies, responding to increased demand for iron stimu(1834:375) thought that Tappan resembled a Delaware Indian word, lated by the Civil War, significantly increased production and paythuphāne, “cold stream issuing from springs.” Whritenour thinks rolls. Much of Southfields was returned to the Town of Monroe after that the name sounds much like a Munsee word, *tupahan, “rolling population levels diminished to prewar levels following the restorastream.” Today, Tappan is perhaps most widely recognized as the tion of peace in 1865. namesake of the Tappan Zee Bridge that carries the New York State The whole of earlier Southfields was reconstituted and reThruway (Interstates 87 and 287) between Nyack (see above) and named Tuxedo in 1890, just four years after local landowner Pierre Tarrytown across the two-mile-wide Tappan Zee embayment of the Lorillard IV created the exclusive self-sustaining Tuxedo Park comHudson River. Local residents living on either side of the state line munity in 1886. The black tie, tailless dinner jacket known as the separating Bergen County, New Jersey, from Rockland County, tuxedo received its name after it was first seen being worn at the New York, also know Tappan as a name adorning the large local annual Tuxedo Park autumn ball sometime during the late ninereservoir, the nearby hamlets of Tappan and Old Tappan, several teenth century. A query of the GNIS yielded 53 listings of the name roads, and other