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Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History

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[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] (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 sounds like a Munsee word, *shaaxkameek, “straight-fish (i.e., eel).” McCafferty (2008:99-100) notes that the early nineteenthcentury artist-chronicler George Winter first recorded the name in the form of Shoamaque as the name of an Eel Creek located in northeastern Indiana. He further observes that the builders of the 1,766-acre Shackamak State Park near the City of Jasonville imported a somewhat respelled version of the name resembling the Southern Unami word s xamekw, “eel,” for the facility they opened along the other Eel River at the southern end of the state in 1929. SHOHOLA (Fulton County). Camp Shohola Drive in the City of Phippsburg is another locale bearing the Delaware name of this prominent Seneca woman (see in Pennsylvania West in Part 2). DELAWARE (Waldo County). Delaware Mountain and nearby Indian Hill Road probably bear names celebrating the Delaware Indian nation. MUNCY (Washington County). Muncy Cove bears the name of a non-Indian. SING SING (Piscataquis County). Sing Sing Pond a transfer name from New York. SQUANKIN (Piscataquis County). Although the spelling of Squankin Pond is reminiscent of the New Jersey Delaware Indian place name Squankum, the name evidently comes from a different Eastern Algonquian language. TIOGA (York County). Tioga Avenue in the Town of Old Orchard OKAHANICKON (Dorchester County). This place name adorning the City of Gaithersburg. a cove and a point on Piney Island in Chesapeake Bay may either DELAWARE (Ann Arundel, Cecil, Prince George’s, and Wicomico be original to the island or an altered transfer form of Occohannock counties). Streets named for the State of Delaware are located in from Virginia. It is not likely an imported version of the similarthe communities of College Park, Elkton, Glen Burnie, and Salis- looking place name Ockanickon from the Delaware River valley in Pennsylvania. bury. HAVERSTRAW (Montgomery County). Haverstraw Court in the PARAMUS (Montgomery County). Paramus Drive in the community of North Potomac is adorned with a Delaware place name from community of Germantown is a transplant from New York. New Jersey. LACKAWANNA (Prince George’s County). The name of Lackawanna Street that runs between the City of College Park and the PARSIPPANY (Montgomery County). Parsippany Court and Parsippany Drive in the community of North Potomac both bear community of Adelphi is a transfer name from Pennsylvania. Delaware Indian place names from New Jersey. LYCOMING (Montgomery County). Lycoming Street in the community of Silver Spring is adorned with this Pennsylvania Delaware POCOPSON (Prince George’s County). Pocopson Creek Way in the community of Brandywine bears a Chesapeake Bay Eastern AlIndian place name. gonquian cognate of the identically spelled Delaware place name Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 183 MASSACHUSETTS CHEMUNG (Norfolk County). See Chemung in New York for further information. CROTON (Norfolk County). Croton Street in the City of Wellesley is adorned with this Delaware place name from New York. HACKENSACK (Suffolk County). Hackensack Road in the City of Boston bears an imported name from New Jersey. LEHIGH (Hampden and Middlesex counties). Streets named Lehigh (see above in Pennsylvania South in Part 1) are located in the cities of the towns of Arlington and Ludlow and the City of Monongahela River also adorns mine and a road in the Town of Alloway is probably not an import from New Jersey. Crystal Falls. AMBOY (Wayne County). Amboy Street is a relocated Delaware Indian place name from New Jersey transferred to the City of Dear- MUNCIE (Grand Traverse County). Muncie Lake is a non-Indian place name. born. CHEMUNG (Livingston County). Lake Chemung and a street in MUNISING (Alger County). Munising is an Ojibwa word transthe City of Howell are adorned with this Delaware Indian transfer lated as “at the island” that closely resembles the Munsee place name Minisink (see in New York, New Jersey North, and Pennsylname from New York. vania North in Part 1). COSHOCTON (Oakland County). Coshocton Street in Waterford MUSKINGUM (Oakland County). Muskingum Drive is a transTownship is an import from Ohio. plant from Ohio located in the Waterford Township. CUSSEWAGO (Genesee County). Cussewago Beach Road is a NORWALK (Kent, Manistee and Wayne counties). The Connectitransfer name from Ohio in the City of Fenton. cut Delaware place name Norwalk adorns the small community in street in the nearby City of Holland. include Manido Falls in