[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Railroad tures in the surrounding area. laid tracks on the bridge built across the mouth of Masthope Creek in 1848. The post office that opened at the optimistically named NESQUEHONING (Carbon and Schuylkill counties). HeckDelaware Bridge community on the opposite bank of the river in ewelder (1834:358) translated the name Nesquehoning as a New York in 1849 transferred operations to Masthope in Pennsyl- Delaware Indian word, næskahónink, “at the black lick,” from the vania in 1855 when plans for the span fell through. root word, næskahóni, “black lick or the lick of which the water is The original namesake of Masthope was a local Delaware of a blackish color.” Today, places named Nesquehoning Mountain, Indian known to settlers who spelled his name as Mastewap, Nesquehoning Creek, and the municipalities of Nesquehoning and Amossowap, Mastohop, and Malonap in documents written be- Nesquehoning Junction are located in the upper Lehigh Valley. tween 1746 and 1761. Masthope Creek was noted as “Masconos Nesquehoning Mountain is one of the series of long, narrow parallel Creek, and once his settlement” on the 1769 Dennis map (Dennis ridges that follow one after another north and west above the Blue 1769). In 1785, 71-year-old settler Johannis Decker affirmed in a Mountain. Eleven-mile-long Nesquehoning Creek is an eastwarddeposition (Snell 1881:368) that he knew Mastewap and other In- running stream that flows below the upper slope of Nesquehoning dians “at Coshecton, Shohacan, and Cookhouse” (see Cochecton Mountain. The stream rises near the Schuylkill County hamlet of above and Shehawken below: Cookhouse is now Deposit, New Hometown. From there, it crosses into Carbon County’s Mahoning York) when they signed the deed that New Englanders used to claim Township (see above), where it flows past the Borough of Nesqueland above the Delaware Water Gap on May 6, 1755 (Boyd and honing into the Lehigh River at Nesquehoning Junction. Taylor 1930-1971 1:260-271). Nesquehoning made its earliest known appearance in Easton treaty council meeting minutes taken on November 10, 1756, MINISINK (Monroe County). Described earlier (see in New Jersey as “Nishamemkachton, a creek about three miles beyond [Fort Allen 82 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet in present-day Weissport]” (State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania Archives, Colonial Records 7:317). It was next mentioned on August 19, 1762, when Iroquois speakers representing themselves and refugee Indians living along the Susquehanna River asked Pennsylvanian authorities not to allow settlement higher up Pochto Creek, where Indian raiders who had destroyed Gnadenhutten also killed a family of colonists (State of Pennsylvania 18381935, Pennsylvania Archives, Colonial Records 6:758-759). William Scull subsequently noted the stream as “Poopoke or Heads Creek” on his 1770 map. The latter name is probably an anglicization of Haeth, the name of the family killed in the 1755 attack whose homestead was located along what was then also called Haeth Creek. NETIMUS (Pike County). Lake Netimus is the focal point of Camp Lake Netimus, a Pocono area girls’ camp established in 1930 located several miles southwest of the Borough of Milford. The camp is named for the sachem Nutimus, who was active in intercultural affairs in the area during the mid-1700s. Heckewelder (1834:385) thought that Nutimus sounded like nütamæs, a Delaware name that meant “a striker of fish with a spear.” QUAKAKE (Carbon and Schuylkill counties). Heckewelder (1834:358) thought that Quakake sounded like the Delaware Indian POCONO (Carbon, Monroe, and Wayne counties). Heckewelder words cuwékeek or kwékêêk, “piney lands.” Quakake Creek, a name (1834:358) wrote that Pocono reminded him of the Delaware Indian that Heckewelder reconstructed as kuweuhanne, is a nine-mile-long words pockhanne, “a stream issuing from a mountain,” and poko- stream that flows from its headwaters in Schuylkill County through McMichael Creek at Stroudsburg before flowing into Brodhead known as Quakake Gap during colonial times. Closely associated Creek (see Analomink above) and on to the Delaware River at the with the region’s coal mining industry, the name continues to adorn Delaware Water Gap. Other places bearing the name farther west Quakake Creek, the hamlet of Quakake Junction on its banks in along the Lehigh Valley include Pocono Mountain, located just Schuylkill County, Quakake Lake in Carbon County, and several north of the Borough of Jim Thorpe, and Pocono Peak Lake, the roads and other places in the Quakake Valley. source of the Lehigh River. Poxono Island on the Delaware River midway between Depew and Depue islands may be a kind of hybrid SAUCON (Lehigh and Northampton counties). Whritenour feels mixing Pocono with Paxinosa, the name of a prominent Shawnee certain that Heckewelder (1834:357, 360) correctly identified sachem who lived in the area. Pocono Point at Candlewood Lake sákunk as a Southern Unami Indian word, meaning “outlet of a (see in Connecticut in Part 3) is an import from Pennsylvania. small stream into a larger one,” whose Northern Unami equivalent, Whritenour observes, is sakona. Saucon is the