Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History
[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 transplant Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 201 from Ohio located in the Village of Depew. name Secaucus adorns a lane in the community of East Islip. the Delaware Indian place name Taconic was adopted during the nineteenth century by a resort developer near Ithaca who gave it to his hotel, the nearby creek, and the waterfall that continues to draw visitors to the Taughannock Falls State Park. ROA HOOK (Westchester County). Although it looks somewhat TEKENI (Herkimer County). Tekeni Lake in the Adirondack State like the Delaware Indian place name Rahway (see above in New Park bears a name that resembles Taconic in New York and Tacony Jersey North in Part 1), Roa Hook (also called Royer’s Point) at the in Pennsylvania. mouth of Peekskill Creek on the Hudson River is unrelated. TIOGA (Clinton, Nassau, Richmond, and Westchester counties). ROCKAWAY (Chemung and Suffolk counties). This place name This Iroquois name of a place associated with Delawares in Pennfrom Long Island occurs as the transfer names of Far Rockaway sylvania occurs as an imported street name in the communities of Road in the Golden Glow neighborhood of the City of Elmira and Atlantic Beach, Jericho, and Pleasantville, the City of Plattsburgh, Rockaway Trail in a Ridge community subdivision. and the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island in New York City. SCHAGHTICOKE (Dutchess and Rensselaer counties). Names TOBEHANNA (Yates County). Tobehanna and Little Tobehanna of localities called Schaghticoke in New York preserve a Mahican creeks in Dundee are transfer names of Tobyhanna in Pennsylvaword similar to it Delaware equivalent in Connecticut. vania. place name Shannopin adorns a drive in the City of Charlotte. AMBOY (Buncombe, Cumberland, and Mecklenberg counties). Amboy is an imported name from New Jersey that adorns streets TAMAQUA (Wake County). This import from Pennsylvania in the cities of Asheville, Fayetteville, Charlotte, and several other adorns Tamaqua Lane in the Town of Holly Springs. locales in the state. TAMMANY (Warren County). St. Tammany Road in the Town of APPALACHIN (Mecklenberg County). Appalachin Drive is an im- Norlina bears the name of the organization that adopted a prominent port from the New York-Pennsylvania border moved to the City of Delaware sachem, first documented in Pennsylvania, as its patron saint. Charlotte. HOBUCKEN (Pamlico County). The City of Hobucken at the TAPPAN (Mecklenberg County). The New York place name Tapmouth of the Pamlico River bears a respelled version of the place pan graces a Tappan Place in the City of Charlotte. name Hoboken from New Jersey. TUXEDO (Henderson County). The Tuxedo Hydroelectric Plant was created by a dam built across the Green River in 1920 near in (see above in Ohio in Part 2). place name Lackawanna graces an avenue in the City of Oregon. APPLE (Wayne County). A tributary of Killbuck Creek (see above in Ohio in Part 2) called Apple Creek, and a nearby street named MANHATTAN (Cuyahoga, Clark, Lucas, and Montgomery counApple Orchard Drive on the campus of the Ohio Agricultural Ex- ties). The imported name Manhattan Beach from Brooklyn, New periment Station in the City of Wooster, preserve the memory of a York is located along the Lake Erie shore in the City of Cleveland. place that local tradition identifies as Apple chauquecake, “apple The name also adorns streets in Dayton, Toledo, and several other orchard” (Howe 1907-1908 2:831). The name, evidently collected places in Ohio. from a published Delaware word list, was thought to be the residence of a man named Beaver Hat, Pappellelond, one of the Mun- MAXANTAWNEY (Gallia County). This subdivision name was see or Delaware signatories to the July 4, 1805 Treaty of Fort recently imported from its original locale in Pennsylvania to the Industry that surrendered the area to United States (Oklahoma State Ohio River Town of Gallipolis. University Library 1999-2000). Other local traditions celebrating Johnny Appleseed may have encouraged linkage of Pappellelond’s METUCHEN (Fairfield County). Metuchen Place is a transfer name with the English term apple that occurs in the same general name from New Jersey located in the City of Reynoldville. form as a loan word in Delaware. MINEOLA (Summit County). This Lakota name attributed to Delaware Indians in New York adorns Mineola Avenue in the City ported from the northeastern corner