[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] is the name of the ridge, and the nearby Campgaw community. of a brook, a park, and a nearby mountain range. The Goffle Mountain ridge, formerly called Totoway Mountain (see Totowa below), CAVEN (Hudson County). Caven Point juts out into New York is a part of the First Watchung Mountain (see below) that rises Harbor behind Liberty Island in present-day Jersey City. It was first above the west end of the City of Paterson. Goffle Brook Park, a noted at its present location in a survey return dated May 12, 1668, formally landscaped recreation area, is located along a stretch of its as “Kewan, a point and tract of upland and meadow” (Winfield namesake stream in Paterson’s Hawthorne neighborhood. 1872:56-57). The absence of records mentioning colonists in the rebuilt and massively expanded during World War II, the installation flow south from South Mountain along the southeastern-facing still operates at a reduced level as the Caven Point Army Reserve scarp of the Hudson Highlands in Rockland County in New York. Center. Caven also survives as the name of a nearby road and av- Dammed to create reservoirs for local communities at several points enue. along its course, the Hackensack River flows south from Rockland into Bergen County past the City of Hackensack. Winding through CUTLASS (Morris County). Whritenour thinks that Cutlass looks the Meadowlands, the Hackensack joins with the Passaic River at like a modern-day spelling of the Jersey Dutch word katelos, “wild- the head of Newark Bay. cat or bobcat” that colonists gave as a nickname to an Indian neighThe efforts of Hackensack Indian sachem Oratam (see Orbor. The man lived at a place they called Cutlosses Plantation in a aton below) to restore peace during the Indian wars that ravaged the survey return made on August 12, 1753, and Catloss Plantation, on region made both the politician and his polity familiar to colonists another survey dated December 9, 1755 (New Jersey Archives, East between 1641 and 1664. Colonists began penetrating Hackensack Jersey Survey Book S3:353 and Survey Book S4:65). Today, re- country in 1668 only after the Elizabethtown and Newark purchases maining parts of an old road now broken up by New Jersey State opened the way. One of the settlers buying land in the area promptly Route 23 and Interstate 287, are variously called Cutless Road in named it New Barbadoes. As with Jamaica (see in New York in Part the Borough of Butler, Cutlass Road in neighboring Kinnelon 3), the name celebrated the settler’s lucrative trade links with the Township, and Cotluss Road, the easternmost surviving segment Caribbean island. located in the Borough of Riverdale. next to Dock Watch Brook, a stream that flows through Dock Watch New Barbadoes Township changed their community’s name to Hollow, a gap in the Second Watchung Mountain between Bridge- Hackensack when they adopted their present-day city form of govwater and Warren townships. Dock Watch has long been thought to ernment in 1921. be a much altered spelling of the name of William Dockwra, a 42 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet HARSIMUS (Hudson County). Harsimus Cove is located on the banks of the Hudson River in Jersey City. The name was first mentioned in an Indian deed to land at Hoboken (see below) acquired for Dutch patroon (manor lord) Michiel Paauw on July 12, 1630, as a place called Ahasimus south of “the land called by us Hobocanhackingh” (Gehring 1980:1). Paauw purchased the place, identified this time as Harsimus, in another deed signed a few months later on November 22 (Gehring 1980:3-4). The name remained in local use even after Dutch officials formally gave the name Bergen to the area in 1660. Harsimus presently is regarded as the oldest municipality in New Jersey. The locale became an important railhead and ferry port built atop reclaimed marshlands along the Hudson River. The Jersey City in 1820. Stevens built a ferry and rail line to bring visitors to the resort he began operating at Hoboken around this time. Trains and ferries began carrying other visitors interested in building homes on lots located on lands owned by his Hoboken Land and Improvement Company soon after its founding in 1838. Growing Hoboken was included within the newly established County of Hudson that broke off from Bergen County in 1840. By 1849, the population had risen sufficiently to warrant erection of Hoboken Township. Six years later, Hoboken became a city. The Stevens Institute of Technology named for the city’s developer today rests upon the rocky outcrop on the banks of the Hudson River still called the Hook of Hoboken at the north end of the City of Hoboken. HO-HO-KUS (Bergen County). Whritenour thinks that Ho-HoKus sounds similar to two Munsee words, *mehokhokwus, “red cedar,” and *hakhakwus, “little bottle gourd.” Today, Ho-Ho-Kus is the name of a borough