[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] means “one who takes the outer layer off of something.” Preakness Mountain is a northern ridge of Second Watchung Mountain (see below) mostly located in Wayne Township at the northeastern corner of Passaic County. Early appearances of the name occurred in the forms Prekemis in 1735, Prakenas in 1766, and Preakness in 1771 (Wardell 2009:83-84). Today, the name adorns a mountain, a community, and several other places in the area. The Preakness Ridge was once called Packanack Mountain (see above). Another of its earlier names, Harteberg, Dutch for “deer mountain,” led many to think that Preakness was a traveled from New Jersey to the Pimlico Racetrack in Maryland, where the Preakness Stakes have been run annually since 1873. The name began its move south when a horse named Preakness owned by Milton Sanford, a breeder who maintained a horse farm in Paterson, won the first race run at Pimlico in 1870 (Sahadi 2011:119120). Three years later, the first Preakness Stakes was named for Sanford’s winning entry. RAHWAY (Essex and Union counties). Whritenour thinks that the spelling of Rahway strongly resembles an anglicized representation of a Munsee word, lxaweew, “it is forked.” Rahway is the name of a 24-mile-long river and the city incorporated in 1858 where the river flows into the Arthur Kill marshlands. The Rahway River’s two main branches rise to the west of the city in the Watchung Mountains (see below). The most northerly of these, called the West Branch, is mostly an upland stream that flows from Verona south into the South Mountain Reservation. From there, the river enters the coastal plain through a gap in the Watchungs at Millburn. The East Branch of the Rahway River flows from Montclair south to its connected several major rail routes, operated for many years as one of the nation’s most successful short lines. The Rahway River ParkBeyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet way, completed in 1925, became a showpiece of American landscape architecture. Today, efforts continue to revitalize the Rahway city center and reuse the Rahway Valley Railroad right-of-way where trains last ran in 1992. RAMAPO (Bergen County). Whritenour thinks that Ramapo sounds much like a Munsee word, alaamaapoxkw, “under the rock.” The name Ramapo originated in the lower Hudson River valley and still graces a ridge, a river, and a number of other places west of the Hudson in the Ramapo Valley. The name also adorns several places in Connecticut and New York (see above). The name first appeared as Ramapough, one of the tracts sold by Indians living along the lower reaches of the present-day Ramapo River in New Jersey on August 10, 1700 (Budke 1975a:77-78). Indians sold the bulk of their remaining lands in the area on what was identified as the Romopuck River in deeds signed on November 18, 1709, and May 9, Ramapo graces a number of other places in New Jersey, and has been adopted by the Ramapough Mountain Nation whose members trace descent to Indian ancestors. ROCKAWAY (Morris County). The Delaware Indian place name Rockaway, first noted in New York during the 1640s, began appearing in northern New Jersey Indian deeds in such forms as Rachawak on November 10, 1701 (New Jersey Archives, Liber H:37-39), and Rechawak, on July 29, 1702 (New Jersey Archives, Liber M:555556). Whritenour thinks these spellings create a name that sounds like a Munsee word, leekuwahkuy, “sandy land.” The 35-mile-long Rockaway River that rises in the uplands of Morris County is a major tributary of the Passaic River. The stream was identified as a river called Hackanowehke in an Indian deed dated November 1, 1714 (New Jersey Archives, Liber N:179183). In 1715, John Reading, Jr. (1915:37) surveyed a substantial number of lots along the more northerly stream that he called the Rackoway or Rockaway River. Other locales currently bearing the Rockaway River’s name in Morris County include the Borough of Rockaway formed in 1894 from land split off from the southern end of Rockaway Township, and the 3,006-acre Rockaway River Wildlife Management Area situated several miles upriver from the Borough of Rockaway. The name in New Jersey also adorns Rockaway Creek (see in New Jersey Central below). SECAUCUS (Hudson County). Whritenour thinks that Secaucus sounds much like a Munsee word, shkaakwus, “skunk.” He also finds that the name resembles a Delaware Indian word, sekake, “above,” perhaps in reference to the high hill that towers over the surrounding meadowlands at the present-day freestanding Town of Secaucus established in 1917. This peak, actually an ancient volBeyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet canic outcrop variously called Snake Mountain and Laurel Hill (the latter name appearing after the hill was dubbed the crowning laurel of Hudson County in 1926), is seen daily by tens of thousands of coming of the railroads, construction of the New Jersey Turnpike (completed in 1952), and the relocation of