[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] Aspetuck became very popular in and around northern Westchester County in New York during the late 1800s. It survives there today as Aspetong Road in Bedford, Old Aspetong Road in Katonah (see above in New York in Part 1), Mount Aspetong in the Town of North Salem, and the still-remembered though since subdivided Aspetong Farm estate built in 1899 HOMOWACK (Ulster and Sullivan counties). Folklorist Charles just across the Hudson River in the Orange County community of Gilbert Hine (1908:101) held that Homowack was an Indian word for “the water runs out.” Other writers have suggested different New Windsor. Delaware and Iroquois etymologies. See Grumet (2013:203-204) BASHER (Orange and Sullivan counties). Although often regarded for a discussion of the available information. as a Delaware Indian name, the etymological origins of Basher Kill are uncertain. See Grumet (2013:195) for a summary of the evi- HOPATCONG (Nassau County). Hopatcong Road is an import from New Jersey relocated to the hamlet of West Hempstead. dence. nquian word meaning “principal creek.” Catatonk is actually a much place name Lackawanna from Pennsylvania adorns a city in the altered form of the Iroquois name of Ganontachorage Creek, Greater Buffalo area and streets in Copake and Dansville. crossed by a party of Moravian missionaries on June 15, 1745, while on their way to Onondaga and recrossed on their return on LEHIGH (Oswego County). The hamlet of Lehigh bears the name of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Headquartered in Bethlehem, PennJuly 1 (in Beauchamp 1916:12, 14). sylvania, the line’s tracks passed through the locality. CHILOWAY (Delaware County). Chiloway is a hamlet located on CASTLE HILL (Bronx County). Robert Bolton (1881 2:264) probably started the local and wholly undocumented tradition identifying Castle Hill Neck as the site of an Indian fort seen by Dutch voyager Adriaen Block in 1614 or 1615. See Grumet (2013:197) for further information. 200 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet LENNI LENAPE (Warren County). Lenni Lenape Island in Lake name, which in New York also adorns a street in the City of George is located in the northern portion of the state where Rochester, is a Lakota word meaning “many waters.” Delawares never lived. MINETTO (Oswego County). Similar in appearance to the MAHOPAC (Nassau County). Mahopac Road in the community Delaware Indian place name originally located in downstate New of West Hempstead is an import from Westchester County. York, the name of the Town of Minetto in Oswego County probably acknowledges members of a local non-Indian family bearing the MANHATTAN (Kings County). Manhattan Beach in Coney Is- surname. spelling of Merrick farther west in Queens and Nassau counties, are located in subdivisions in the City of Port Jefferson and the com- MONHAGEN (Orange County). Although it closely resembles munity of Ridge. Mohegan, Monhagen Creek and several other locales bearing the name in the City of Middletown is an imported county name from METAUQUE (Sullivan County). Metauque Lake in the hamlet of Ireland. Glen Spey was created by a dam built across a brook flowing into the Mongaup River’s (see above in New York in Part 1) Rio Reser- MONSEY (Rockland County). The names Monsey, Monsey Stavoir one mile to the southwest. Metauque Lake has been on local tion, and Monsey Lake were borrowed by a developer to inspire romaps at least since French (1860:646) published his gazetteer. Ef- mantic images of Indians for buyers. While Indian people speaking forts to track down the history of the name have thus far only found Munsee lived in the area, the name was never documented in or that Metauque sounds much like a Munsee word, míhtukw, “tree,” near the Hudson River valley. listed in Delaware Indian language dictionaries such as O’Meara (1996). MOSHOLU (Bronx County). Regarded as a Delaware Indian word since Robert Bolton (1881 2:446) first identified Tibbetts Brook as MINEOLA (Monroe and Nassau counties). Most New Yorkers as- “the Mosholu of the Indians” in 1848, the name instead honors the sociate the name Mineola with the Long Island village in the Town prominent Choctaw leader Mushulatubbee (sometimes called of North Hempstead. The place given the name in 1858 was incor- Mashula) whose name combined the words amoshuli, “to perseporated as a village in 1906. Local traditions hold that Mineola is a vere,” and ubi, “to kill” (in Bright 2004:270). See Grumet shortened version the name of a Delaware chief named Minio- (2013:219) for further information. lagameka. Meniolagameka (Whritenour suggests it is a Munsee word for “oasis,” earlier translated by Heckewelder as a Delaware MUNSEY (Nassau County). The Village of Munsey Park was word for a “rich or good spot within that which is bad or barren”) named for its non-Indian developer. was actually a mostly Munsee Delaware Indian town in a part of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley abandoned during the 1750s. The MUSKINGUM (Erie County). Muskingum Street is a