[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] River” or “the white grave” (Luckenbach in Gipson 1938:24, 604). Wapicomekoke and the other towns along the West Fork of the White River were culturally diverse communities where Delawares lived alongside Nanticokes, Cherokees, Shawnees, and a number of French, English, and American traders. Its core constituent communities included Munsee Town, home of the principal Delaware leader Tetepachksit, and nearby Buckongkehelas Town (see Bokengehalas above in West Virginia). Wapicomekoke became the central gathering point and meeting place of the main body of the Delaware Indian nation. Federal authorities ordered the residents of Wapicomekoke and the other White River towns were ordered to evacuate and live under protective custody at camps set up at Upper Piqua in Ohio by January 1, 1813 during the War of 1812. Most of these people soon returned to their homes after signing the second Treaty of Greenville (see above in Ohio) affirming their alliance with the Americans on July 22, 1814 (Weslager 1978:69-70). Finally compelled to give up their rights to lands at Wapicomekoke and the rest of the White River at the St. Mary’s Treaty on October 3, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Library 1999-2000), most Delawares left the area for new homes in Missouri by 1821. MUSCATATUCK (Jackson, Jennings, Monroe, and Washington counties). McCafferty (2008:154-155) thinks that Muscatatuck comes from the Munsee words, *máskekw -ihtekw, “swamp river,” noted as Moschachgeu in a Moravian word list. He further notes that the name first appeared as Muscakituck in a document written by General John Tipton in 1812. Muscatatuck appeared as the name of a river and a hill in a January 28, 1830 act to reroute a road in the area (Chapman 1830:26). Today, the 54-mile-long Muscatatuck River flows through central Indiana into the East Fork of the White River. The name also adorns the 90-mile-long Vernon Branch of the Mucatatuck River and several locales in the surrounding valley. Delaware leader Buckongkehelas (see Bokengehalas in West Virginia above) located his residence at Wapicomekoke. PIPE (Madison County). Pipe Creek and Pipe Creek Township (organized in 1833) are named for Captain Pipe and his namesake son (see Hopocan and Pipe above in Ohio), both of whom established households in the White River valley during the time Delawares lived in the area. SHANKATANK (Jackson, Rush, and Washington counties). Whritenour thinks that Shankatank sounds like a Munsee word that McCafferty (2008:150-154) renders as *shaxkíhtank. Noting that Zeisberger translated the similar-looking Delaware word Tachanigeuu as “where many old trees lie,” McCafferty and Whritenour agree that the name more closely resembles a Munsee word meaning “it flows straight.” Three-mile-long Shankatank Creek flows into the East Fork of the White River two miles north of the City of Rushville. STRAWTOWN (Hamilton County). The origin of the name of an unincorporated locality on the West Fork of the White River, located several miles downstream from the City of Anderson (see above), and Strawtown Avenue that runs through the community, are unclear. Local tradition holds that the name preserves the memory of 1790s and 1830s. TOMICO (The Municipality of Chatham-Kent). Tomico Road on the Moravian of the Thames Reserve (see above) bears the name of INDIANA (Haldimand County). Indiana Road is located near other a prominent family identified as Munceys as early as 1829. A simroads bearing names significant in Delaware Indian history in a part ilar-looking Chippewa name adorns Lake Tomicko, a popular resort of the original Six Nation Reserve mostly inhabited by Delaware located above Lake Nipissing. Indian people. LENAPEEUW (The Municipality of Chatham-Kent). Lenapeeuw Road bears a variant spelling of Lenape located in Moravian Indian Reserve No. 47 at Moraviantown (see below). MONTURE (Haldimand County). Monture Street in the City of Cayuga bears the name of the influential Montour family (see above in Pennsylvania Central), several of whose members married Delaware spouses. MORAVIANTOWN (The Municipality of Chatham-Kent). The present-day Moravian of the Thames Band of the Delaware Nation reserve community was established when a group of 200 mostly Munsee- and Unami-speaking Delawares moved there from Ohio in 1792. Its original name, Schönfeld, German for “beautiful or fair field,” was anglicized to Fairfield by the time American troops razed the community’s buildings after defeating a British and Indian force retreating from Detroit nearby at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, during the War of 1812. Delawares moving into the new community they built across from its destroyed predecessor in 1815 christened the place New Fairfield. Their community, generally known as Moraviantown by the second quarter of the nineteenth century, is today officially identified as Moravian Indian Reserve No. 47. MUNCEY (Middlesex County). Muncey Road (Highway 11) connects the Munsee-Delaware Nation Reserve on the south with the Chippewa of the Thames Reserve farther north. The MunseeDelaware First Nation Reserve was the site of the Muncey Town Indian communities established along the Thames