Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History
[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] people during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The son of a Munsee father and Mahican mother, John Henry Killbuck was a great grandson of Gelelemend, the eighteenth-century Delaware Indian leader known among the English as John Killbuck (see above in Indiana, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania West in Part 2). MOHICAN (Bethel Census Area). John Henry Killbuck named Cape Mohican at the westernmost tip of Nunivak Island to honor his mother’s Mohican nation. Killbuck’s acceptance of his father’s this state name occur in the cities of Pasadena and Westminster. 164 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet COLORADO MUNSEE (Park County). Munsee Road is another of the many given Indian names in the Estates of Colorado develthoroughfares ALLEGHENY (Dolores and El Paso counties). Allegheny Mine opment in Hartsel. in Dolores County, and Allegheny Drive in the City of Colorado Springs, bear a Delaware Indian name imported from PennsylvaMUNSEY (Gunnison County). Munsey Creek bears a non-Indian nia. district in Ohio. ROCKAWAY (Douglas, Larimer, and Mesa counties). Streets bearLACKAWANNA (Lake County). Lackawanna Gulch is adorned ing this popular Delaware Indian place name are located in Castle Rock, Fort Collins, and Grand Junction. with a transfer name from Pennsylvania. LEHIGH (Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, El Paso, and Jefferson SUSQUEHANNA (Montrose). The Susquehanna Mine is adorned counties). Streets in Colorado bearing this imported name from with the name of the river that courses through Pennsylvania’s anPennsylvania are located in Aurora, Boulder, Colorado Springs, thracite coal country. Denver, and Lakewood. TACONY (Pueblo County). Tacony Drive in the Pueblo West comLENAPE (Park County). Lenape Trail is one of many Indian names munity is a transplant from Pennsylvania. adorning roads in the Estates of Colorado development in Hartsel. TAMMANY (El Paso County). Tammany Drive bears a name imMANHATTAN (Boulder and Larimer counties). Established ported from Pennsylvania located in the City of Colorado Springs. around gold mines discovered in the area in 1886 and abandoned during the early twentieth century, Manhattan is presently a ghost TUXEDO (Pueblo County). Tuxedo Boulevard is a road in the City town. The name Manhattan also adorns several streets in the City of Pueblo. of Boulder and a number of other Colorado locales. VENANGO (Pueblo County). The name of Venango Lane in the Pueblo West community is an import from western Pennsylvania. MANITOU SPRINGS (El Paso County). Known as the “Saratoga of the West,” local hot springs and a scenic locale at the base of Pikes Peak has made Manitou Springs a popular spa town since its WEEHAWKEN (Ouray County). The New Jersey place name of Weehawken adorns a creek and a trail southwest of the City of founding in 1872. Ouray. MOHICAN (Teller County). The name of the Mohican Mine in Colorado recalls the Mohican River in Ohio where prospectors still WHEELING (Denver County). Wheeling is a street name in Denver and a number of other localities in Colorado. pan for gold. MONONGAHELA (Chaffee and Larimer counties). The imported WYOMING (Denver, Jefferson, and Pueblo counties). Streets Delaware place name Monongahela adorns a mine in Chaffee bearing the name of Wyoming in Denver, Golden, and Pueblo are County and a lane in the Larimer County community of Red Feather among many in Colorado honoring the neighboring state. Lakes. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet POQUOND (Fairfield County). Poquond Brook is probably a 166 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet DELAWARE MUNSEE (New Castle County). A Delaware Indian name borrowed for use as a place name for a subdivision built on the banks of the South Branch of Naamans Creek near the state line with Pennsylvania where Munsee people never lived. RAHWAY (New Castle County). Rahway Park was named to associate the place with its handsomely designed namesake in New Jersey. TUXEDO (Kent and New Castle counties). Tuxedo Lane appears in the City of Harrington and as Tuxedo Park in the City of Wilmington. WAWASET (New Castle County). The name of Wawaset Park in the City of Wilmington often thought to be a Delaware place name closed down during the mid-1980s, the lake and a local road conMINNEOLA (Lake, Marion, and Polk counties). This probable tinue to bear the name. transfer of Mineola from New York, where it is often regarded as a CONASKONK (Palm Beach County). Conaskonk Circle is an im- Delaware word (it is actually Lakota), adorns the City of Minneola, port from New Jersey relocated to the Village of Royal Palm Beach. a number of places in and around adjoining Lake Minneola, a drive in the City of Lakeland, and a lane in the City of Dunnellon. CROSSWICKS (Duval and Orange counties). Crosswicks from New Jersey adorns streets in the cities of Jacksonville and Orlando. MUSKINGUM (Brevard County). Muskingum Avenue is a transplant from Ohio located in the City of Cocoa. CROTON (Brevard County). Croton Road (see above in New York NORWALK (Duval, Marion,