[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Liber 1:270[69] on verso). Today, the name most notably graces the three parallel ranges of the Watchung Mountains, Watchung Township in Union County, and the 2,000-acre Watchung Reservation built as a flagship facility by the semi-autonomous public commission whose members began acquiring land for the park in 1921. The Watchung Reservation became one of several public recreational areas established on more than 4,000 acres purchased by 1930. The commission was dissolved in 1978 and its lands, increased to 6,700 acres, were placed under the direct management of Union County. WATNONG (Morris County). Whritenour thinks that Watnong sounds like a Munsee word, *xwahtunung, “at the big mountain.” Today, Watnong is the name of a mountain, a brook, and other places in and around the Borough of Morris Plains. A place called “Megottanung” was noted near “wheepanning” (see Whippany below)” in a deed to land “by Succalomoning [see Succasunna above]... [and] a Mountain Called Lalingoskakong” sold by Indians on November 1, 1714 (New Jersey Archives, Liber N:179-183). Watnong appeared in a form more closely resembling its current spelling as the name of “an Indian plantation called Whattanung” Wawayanda within the park boundaries. Managers of Lake Aeroflex in Kittatiny Valley State Park many miles to the south in Sussex County changed its name to New Wawayanda Lake when an expansion project undertaken at the Wawayanda State Park expanded the waters of Lake Wawayanda to include the original New Wawayanda Lake. Current New Wawayanda Lake’s 101-foot-depth makes it the deepest natural body of water in New Jersey. WEEHAWKEN (Hudson County). Whritenour thinks that Weehawken sounds like a Munsee word, *xwiiahkiing, “at the big land.” Weehawken presently is the name of a township on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River and a street in Manhattan where the slip for the ferry, put out of business by the completion of the Holland Tunnel in 1927, was located. The name was first mentioned as a “great clip [i.e., cliff] above Wiehacken” in an Indian deed to land in the area dated January 30, 1658 (New Jersey Archives, Liber 1:36). Colonial settlements built at the locale grew around the ferry that began running from Weehawken to Manhattan during the early 1700s. Local residents subsequently incorporated their community Weequahic, they gave it to the park and the public golf course (the oldest in the United States) completed by the Olmstead Brothers landscaping firm a few years later. The residential district that grew up alongside the park during the early 1900s is still known as the Weequahic Park neighborhood. See Wickecheoke below and Wickers Creek (above in New York) for similar-looking Delaware-language cognates. WERIMUS (Bergen County). Whritenour thinks that Weromensa, the earliest orthography of the present-day place name Werimus, sounds like a Munsee word, *xweelameenzuw, “there are many little fish.” Werimus currently is the name of a road that runs through several communities just to the east of the City of Paterson. It first appeared as an “old Indian field or plantation” called Weromensa in an Indian deed to land on the east bank of the Saddle River dated June 1, 1702 (Budke 1975a:84-86). The name was also mentioned as a place in the same area identified as Awessawas Plantation during the colonial era (Wardell 2009:114). WHIPPANY (Morris County). Heckewelder (1834:375) wrote that Whippany reminded him of a Delaware Indian word, wîphanne, “arrow creek, where the wood or willow grows of which arrows are made.” Whritenour thinks the name sounds more like a Munsee word, *xwihpunung, “place of big tubers,” combining xw, “big,” with ihpunung, “place of tubers.” Whippany first appeared in a reference to the “South Branch of the Passaieck River alias Monepening” in a March 10, 1690, Indian deed to land in the area (New Jersey Archives, Liber K-Large:170). Whritenour thinks that Monepening sounds very much like a variant of the “tuber place” translation prefaced by men, “collected together in one place.” The stream was next mentioned as the Machiponing River (another “tuber place” variant, this one attached to the words, meex, “large,” or maxk, “red”) “at the west side of the south branch of Pessyack River” (see Passaic above) in a deed dated December 3, 1701 (New Jersey Archives, Liber O:145-148). 1715. Today, the Whippany River and its branches flow from the City of Morristown past the hamlet of Whippany in Hanover Township. There, the main stem of the Whippany River forms the border between East Hanover and Parsippany-Troy Hills (see above) townships as it flows east to its junction with the Rockaway River (see above) just one mile from the place where the Rockaway’s waters fall into the Passaic River at Hatfield Swamp. WEEQUAHIC (Essex County). Whritenour thinks that Weequahic sounds much like a Munsee word, wihkweek, “that which is the end of something (i.e., the head of a stream).” Weequahic Lake is located