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Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History

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[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 Gogebic County, Manitou Lake and the Manitou Islands in Leelanau County, and Manito Lake in Oakland TAMMANY (Ingham County). Tammany Avenue, located in the County. Tammany Hills development in the City of Lansing, bears the name MANNINGTON (Wayne County). Although it is spelled the same of this prominent Delaware Indian sachem (see above in Pennsylvania North in Part 1). way as the Delaware Indian place name Mannington in New Jersey, Mannington Road in the City of Canton is named for a non-Indian. TUXEDO (Oakland and Wayne counties). Tuxedo is a street name MATTAWAN (Van Buren County). This altered importation of in Detroit and Dearborn in Wayne County and Waterford in OakMatteawan from New York initially appeared the name of a railroad land. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 185 WYOMING (Kent and Wayne counties). The name of the State of ROCKAWAY (Taney County). The City of Rockaway Beach is a resort community on the shores of the White River named for the famous resort in New York. TAMAQUA (Jackson County). Tamaqua Ridge Drive bears the relocated name of the Pennsylvania Borough of Tamaqua in the City of Independence. TAMMANY (Independent City of St. Louis). Tammany Lane in St. Louis is adorned with the name of the Delaware Indian sachem (see in Pennsylvania North in Part 1). TUXEDO (Independent City of St. Louis). Tuxedo Boulevard is in the City of St. Louis. WHEELING (Livingston County). Wheeling is the name of a Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet Town of Londonderry is a transfer name from New Jersey. MANHATTAN (Hillsborough County). Roads named for Manhattan occur in the cities of Amherst, Manchester, and Nashua. SUCCESS (Coos County). Success Road is located in the Town of Milan. TAMMANY (Strafford County). Tammany Park in the City of Dover bears a Delaware sachem’s name first documented in Pennsylvania. TIOGA (Merrimack County). Tioga Road is a transfer name from Pennsylvania relocated to the Town of Hill. WISSAHICKON (Hillsborough County). Wissahickon Drive is an import from Pennsylvania located in the Town of Hudson. WYOMING (Hillsborough County). Wyoming Avenue is located in the City of Manchester. means “Pau’s Community” in reference to Pavonia, the original ABSECON (Mercer and Morris counties). This southern New Jer- name of Jersey City purchased by the Dutch patroon Michiel Paauw sey place name also adorns roads in more northerly townships of in 1630 (Grumet 2013:199). Hamilton and Parsippany-Troy Hills. CONASKONK (Monmouth County). The Delaware Indian name AMBOY (Morris and Union counties). This Delaware Indian name of this point of land on Raritan Bay also occurs nearby as the name originally given to places at the mouth of the Raritan River also of a drive in Asbury Park. serves as a transfer name adorning streets far from Perth Amboy in CROTON (Hunterdon County). Originally from New York, Croton the City of Union and Roxbury Township. was adopted by residents of a small hamlet west of the county seat AQUETONG (Mercer County). Aquetong Lane in Ewing Town- at Flemington sometime during the mid-nineteenth century. ship is an import from neighboring Pennsylvania. DELAWANNA (Passaic and Warren counties). Delawanna is a hybrid railroad name grafting the names Delaware and Lackawanna ASSINIWIKHAM (Passaic County). The 1,100-foot-high Assinitogether. See Grumet (2013:201) for additional information. CHINCOPIN (Cumberland County). Often identified as a Delaware place name (D. Becker 1964:13), the name of the Chin- LACKAWANNA (Hudson and Sussex counties). Lackawanna Park copin Branch of the Manumuskin River (see above in New Jersey in Hudson County and Lake Lackawanna in the county of Sussex South in Part 1) is a name of North Carolina Eastern Algonquin for bear transfer names from Pennsylvania associated with the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. a type of chestnut still called a chinquapin in English. CHINTEWINK (Warren County). Whritenour thinks that Chintewink sounds like a Delaware Indian word, tschinktewink, “on the south or sunny side of the mountains.” Uncorroborated local tradition holds that Chintewink was the name of a Lenape Indian village located in present-day Phillipsburg said to have been entered onto a thus far unlocated version of the Jansson-Visscher map printed in Adriaen van der Donck’s Description of New Netherland, published in 1654. Chintewink Alley is the only place bearing the name in the present-day freestanding town of Phillipsburg. The