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Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History

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[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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, Orange, and Putnam counties). The in Part 1) is located in the City of Melbourne. name Norwalk originally from Connecticut adorns a village, an isCUYAHOGA (Palm Beach County). This Iroquois name of an land, a landing, and a point in the Ocala National Forest. The name Ohio locale where many Delawares lived adorns a road in the City also graces places in the cities of Jacksonville and Orlando. of Lake Worth and a lane in West Palm Beach. NYACK (Brevard County). Nayack Street (see above in New York in Part 1) is located in the City of Palm Bay. ROCKAWAY (Kootenai County). Rockaway (originally from New York) adorns a bay in Lake Hayden and several roads on its banks just north of the City of Coeur d’Alene. SAUCON (Pend D’Oreille County). Saucon Creek is another Pennsylvania import. TAMMANY (Nez Perce and Shoshone counties). Tammany Creek is named for the noted Delaware sachem from Pennsylvania. WYOMING (Fremont, Gooding, Kootenai, Latah, and Shoshone counties). Idaho has a Wyoming Creek and streets bearing the state’s name in the communities of Ashton, Deary, Gooding, Pinehurst, and Hayden. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 171 INDIANA LEHIGH (Lawrence County). Lehigh Street near Railroad Street in the City of Mitchell bears the widely distributed Delaware Indian name from Pennsylvania. place BEAVER CREEK (Lawrence and Martin counties). Beaver Creek is one of a number of streams located in areas formerly occupied by Delaware Indian people identified by local historians as English LENAPE (Greene and Vanderburgh counties). Like Shakamak, equivalents of otherwise unattested Delaware names primarily people who gave the name to roads in the city Evansville and artidrawn from Lenape dictionaries. In this case, Beaver Creek was ficial constructions like Lake Lenape in places in Indiana where identified as Tamaquehanne, from Unami words meaning beaver Delawares have never lived adopted the name to honor the memory of Delaware Indians whose towns were located at the northeastern and river (McCafferty 2008:159-160). end of the state. CLEAR CREEK (Lawrence and Martin counties). McCafferty (2008:157-158) shows that the stream’s unattested Delaware term LICK CREEK (Martin and Orange counties). Local historians Waseleuhanne comes from similar Northern and Southern Unami gave the unattested name Manonhanne as the Delaware name for this stream (McCafferty 2008:160). where Delaware Indians are not known to have lived. OTTER CREEK (Jennings and Ripley counties). McCafferty (2008:156) shows that the unattested name Connumnock, given this FISHING CREEK (Lawrence and Orange counties). McCafferty stream by local historians, matches Munsee and Southern Unami (2008:157) notes that the unattested Delaware name Nameshanne dictionary entries for “otter.” given by a local historian to this stream was cobbled together from Southern Unami dictionary entries namés, “fish,” and hanne, PATOKA (Crawford, DuBois, Gibson, Jasper, Orange, and Pike “river.” counties). McCafferty (2008:144-145) thinks that words meaning “it thunders,” pehtáhk w, in Munsee Delaware and paatoohka, in FLATROCK RIVER (Bartholomew, Henry, and Shelby counties). Miami-Illinois, are plausible sources for the modern-day name of This name is thought to be an English equivalent of an otherwise the 167-mile-long Patoka River and the many places that bear the unattested Delaware place name, Puchkachsin, assembled from the name within the river’s valley. Unami words pàk, “flat,” and ahs n, “stone” (McCafferty 2008:151152). RARITAN (Hamilton, Marion, and Porter counties). Streets named FORKS OF WHITE RIVER (Daviess, Knox, and Pike counties). Raritan (originally from New Jersey) are located in the Town of Local historians gave Lechauwitank as the otherwise unrecorded Fishers and the cities of Indianapolis, and Valparaiso. Delaware Indian name of a Munsee settlement at the junction of the East and West Forks of the White River destroyed by American ROCKAWAY (Allen and Wabash counties). Rockaway Drive in troops during the Revolutionary War. McCafferty (2008:160-161) the City of Fort Wayne and Rockaway Creek in Wabash County shows that the name resembles a Northern Unami term, *lexawí- both bear an imported name from New York. tank, “it fork-flows. ” SAND CREEK (Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, and Jennings counties). This place name, first noted as Sandy Creek by General KANATA MANAYUNK (Kosciusko County). The name of this “that which is a sandy river.” more familiar in its best known form, Canada. 174 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet SHACKAMAK (Greene County). Whritenour thinks that Shackamak