Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History
[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Erie County and Pipe Run, a Carroll County headwater banks of the modern-day Salt Fork. Whritenour thinks that stream of Sandy River, a tributary of the Tuscarawas River, are Hutchins’ Se-key-unck almost exactly matches the Northern Unami named for the Wolf phratry leader Kogieschquanohel, “causes day word sikeyunk, “salt place.” Today, the more than 20,000-acre Salt light” (Heckewelder 1834:393-394). Another of his names, Lick State Park and its adjoining Wildlife Area are the largest facilHopocan, “pipe,” (see above) became the basis for the name Cap- ities of their type in Ohio. tain Pipe adopted by the sachem and at least two other Delawares (J. Miller 1989:168). The first Captain Pipe came to Ohio from his SALT SPRINGS (Trumbull County). Two localities named Salt home at Kuskusky in western Pennsylvania during the years fol- Springs on opposite banks of the Mahoning River in the City of lowing the end of Pontiac’s War. Initially settling in the Cuyahoga Niles, and several roads and other features in the area also bearing Valley (see above), he moved to the Sandy River valley at the be- the name, preserve the memory of Salt Lick Town. Salt Lick Town ginning of the Revolutionary War. consisted of a cluster of Indian communities that included several Pipe lived for a time in Hell Town along the Clear Fork of Delaware settlements. The place was noted on several maps and rethe Mohican River (see above). He soon moved farther west to a peatedly mentioned in journals and reports penned during the midcommunity that became known as Pipetown on the upper Sandusky eighteenth century. The captive John McCullough (1841:96), who River (see below) south of Pipe Creek after openly coming out lived with his Delaware captors from 1756 to 1764, for example, County (Kilbourn 1819:55, 142). The stream, which bears the SANDUSKY (Crawford, Marion, Sandusky, and Wyandot coun- Shawnee cognate of the almost identical Delaware word, became ties). Sandusky is the Wyandot Iroquoian name for a place impor- well-known among Americans as the place where Virginia governor tant in Delaware Indian history. Mahr (1957:153) thought that Lord Dunmore compelled the Shawnees and Mingos to give up their Sandusky came from a Wyandot word, *sa’ndesti, “water.” The land south of the Ohio River following their defeat at the Battle of Wyandot lands in northwestern Ohio’s Sandusky River valley were Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. located at the western edge of the British sphere of influence between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Pressured by STILLWATER (Tuscarawas County). Moravian Abraham LuckBritish officials and devastated by American raiders, Delawares enbach (in Gipson 1938:597) identified present-day Stillwater began moving to refugee camps in and around the present-day City Creek as a stream Delaware Indians called Gegelmuckpechunk of Upper Sandusky in significant numbers after Munsee war leader when he passed the spot where it falls into the Tuscarawas River Captain Pipe (see above) established communities at Tymochtee south of the City of New Philadelphia in the fall of 1800. O’Meara (see below) and Pipe’s Town in the area after 1778. (1996:608) notes that the Munsee words kŭlampéekat and kŭlamMoravian Delaware Indians compelled to leave their set- péexun both mean “be still water.” Stillwater Creek is more than a tlements farther east briefly settled in the upper Sandusky valley at dozen miles upriver from the Newcomerstown community (see Captives Town between 1781 and 1782. Other Delawares subse- above) also identified by travelers as Kighalampegha (Beatty in quently moved to a second cluster of Indian communities at Lower Booth 1994:80-90) and Gekelmukpechink (Weslager 1972:291). As Sandusky in the present-day City of Fremont. People in both places the only substantial settlement in the general vicinity of the place were increasingly confined to ever-diminishing reservation tracts where Stillwater Creek flows into the Tuscarawas River, Gekelfollowing the end of the Revolutionary War. Ceding the last of their mukpechink provided a feasible approximate reference point for remaining lands along the river in 1829, most Sandusky Delawares identifying Newcomer’s Town. moved west to join the main body of their people removing from Missouri to Kansas. SUNFISH (Monroe County). Early travelers noted that Indians called Sunfish Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River in southeastern SCHOENBRUNN (Tuscarawas County). The Schoenbrunn Vil- Ohio, by the name Buckchitawa and “Paugh-chase-wey’s or Sun lage State Memorial, managed by the Ohio Historical Society in the Fish Creek” (Hutchins’ 1764 itinerary in Hanna 1911 2:196). James City of New Philadelphia, preserves reconstructed log cabins and Rementer notes that Paugh-chase-wey sounds much like other structures erected within the archaeological footprint of the puckchewes, the Southern and Northern Unami words for sunfish. Moravian Indian mission town of Schoenbrunn, “beautiful spring,” Whritenour observes that the Munsees use a different word, mechbuilt in 1772. English traveler Nicholas Cresswell paid a couple of galingus, to identify the fish. Sun Fish