[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] it traveled downhill from the mountain to the Today, places named Wiccopee occur in two adjacent locales astride as the preferred spelling of the name in the area to the present day. a stretch of the Hudson Highlands to the east of the Hudson River. The upper group centers around Wiccopee Creek, a northward-run- WYKAGYL (Westchester County). The name of the Wykagyl ning stream that flows from its headwaters just above Canopus Lake Country Club preserves a place name first documented on early (see above) through a gap called Wiccopee Pass to the hamlet of maps long thought to be a shortened form of Wiechquaesgeck. The Wiccopee and on to the place where it falls into Fishkill Creek near club has operated at its present location in New Rochelle continuthe community of Brinckerhoff. Wiccopee Brook rises a few miles ously since 1904. The architect Alfred Feltheimer, responsible for to the south of Wiccopee Creek’s headwaters. It begins above Still- designing and naming stations along the inter-urban New York, water Pond and flows south into the Wiccopee Reservoir River be- Western, and Boston Railway on the north shore of Long Island fore debouching into Peekskill Hollow Creek. Sound, gave the country club’s name to the station built near the faThe name Wiccopee first appeared as a Fishkill Creek trib- cility in 1912. The neighborhood of upscale houses that grew up utary identified as Wakapa Creek in a 1753 Philipse Patent sur- around the station continues to be known as Wykagyl. veyor’s map (Library of Congress, Maps of North America 1750-1789, Map 1083). It was later noted as the Wappinger Indian settlement of Wikopy tucked into a hollow in the Highlands in present-day Dutchess County. Johannes Swartwout was the first colonist to begin work on a farmstead near the place where Wiccopee Creek flows into the Fishkill. In 1762, a descendant mentioned his ancestor’s purchase of the tract from Wappinger Indians (see above) in a letter requesting title to the place sent to the Superintendent of Indian affairs, Sir William Johnson (Sullivan et al. 1921-1965 10:493). The grateful descendant probably renamed the locale Johnsonville for the superintendent after Sir William ruled against the Wappinger Indian claim to the area in 1765. A post office built at Johnsonville in 1826 bore the name until 1846 (Kaiser 1965), when local residents named the place Wiccopee after the nearby creek. WICKERS CREEK (Westchester County). Wickers Creek is an anglicized version of Wiechquaesgeck, the original name of the Dobbs Ferry locale that colonists later used as a general term identifying all Indians living in and around Westchester. Whritenour thinks that Wiechquaesgeck sounds very much like a Munsee word, *wihkwaskeekw, “end of the swamp.” Present-day Wickers Creek is a one-mile-long stream that flows through Dobbs Ferry into the Hudson River. The stream itself was first mentioned as Wyckers Creeke in a license permitting purchase of land in the area issued on November 16, 1677 (O’Callaghan and Fernow 1853-1887 13:515). It was subsequently noted as “a creek or fall called by the Indians Weghqueghe and by the Christians called Lawrence’s Plantation” in an Indian deed to land in the area dated April 13, 1682 (in Robert Bolton 1881 1:269). The stream was also mentioned in a will filed by landowner Frederick Philipse on October 26, 1700, as “a creek called by the Indians Wysquaqua and by the Christians as William Portuguese Creek” (Pelletreau 1886:23-28). The Wiechquaesgeck Indians mostly moved to Nimham’s Wappinger community farther north at Wiccopee (see all above) following the sales of their last lands in Westchester County around this time. WILLOWEMOC (Sullivan County). Willowemoc Creek and the hamlet of Willowemoc are located in Catskill State Park. The creek, which flows into the Beaver Kill by the hamlet of Livingston 34 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet CONNECTICUT Note: All Delaware Indian place names in Connecticut are located in Fairfield County unless otherwise noted. AMOGERONE. Amogerone was noted as one of two sachems of Asamuck signing the July 18, 1640, Indian deed for land in the present-day Town of Greenwich (Hurd 1881:365-366). The name was revived in 1876 by the still-functioning Amogerone Volunteer Fire Company Number 1 and has more recently been given to the Amogerone Cross Way (formerly Amogerone Place), a nearby oneblock-long lane in the Greenwich town center. ASPEN. Aspen Mill Road is located in the Town of Ridgefield. During the 1960s, the local planning commission saw to it that this place name would win any prize awarded to the most thoroughly disguised Indian place name in the region when it insisted that a local developer adopt Aspen instead of Asproom, the local colonialera Indian place name that he had originally chosen. Asproom made its first appearance in town records as a mountain mentioned in the November 22, 1721, Indian deed to land in the