Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History
[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] same name as influential Delaware sachem, Captain Pipe (also see above in Ohio in Part 2). The road is also located just a few miles south and west of the Hell Town expatriate Indian community on the Clear Fork of the Mohican River (see above in Ohio in Part 2) led by Captain Pipe during the early years of the American Revolution. Despite these facts, Pipesville Road bears the name of a non-Indian, Warren Pipes, who served the now-defunct Pipesville community in the area as its second postmaster during the 1850s. POCANTICO (Summit County). The name of Pocantico Avenue in the City of Akron is an import from New York. ROCKAWAY (Hamilton, Seneca, and Summit counties). The New MINESING (Simcoe County). This otherwise unrelated Ojibwa cognate of the Delaware Indian word Minisink (see above in New York, New Jersey North, and Pennsylvania North in Part 1) adorns a wetlands and a community in the Nottawasaga Valley near the City of Barrie. MOHICAN (Oxford County). Mohican Drive is one of several roads given Indian names located in the Lakeside Estates subdivision in the community of Woodstock many miles upriver from the Munsee-Delaware First Nation Reserve. MUNCEY (City of Toronto). Muncey Avenue bears the name of a non-Indian. PREAKNESS (City of Niagara Falls). The name Preakness (see above in New Jersey North in Part 1) adorns a park and a street located near other roads named for races and races horses in City of Niagara Falls. ROCKAWAY (Regional Municipality of York). The New York Delaware place name Rockaway Road is located near the shore of Lake Simcoe in the community of Willow Beach in the Town of CONOQUENESSING (Monroe County). Conoquenessing Drive is one of the many imported Delaware Indian place names in the Arrowhead Lake development. CROSSWICKS (Berks and Montgomery counties). This import from New Jersey adorns a hamlet and road near Jenkintown and a CINNAMINSON (Philadelphia County). The name of this New drive in the City of Reading. Jersey township was adopted as a street name in nearby PhiladelCROTON (Delaware County). The name Croton given to a road phia sometime during the twentieth century. in the Village of Wayne is a transfer name from New York. CODORUS (Schuylkill and York counties). Donehoo (1928:32) thinks that Codorus may be a much-garbled presently indecipher- CUTTALOSSA (Bucks County). Cuttalossa (officially spelled Cutable Delaware or Shawnee Indian place name. It may also be a more talosa by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names) is the name of a intact rendering of Cadorus, the Christian name of the Duke of creek, a road, and an unincorporated hamlet in Solebury Township. Cornwall who was the father of King Arthur’s Queen Guinevere. Local historian William Davis (1876:296nn.) wrote that his name Cadorus figured prominently in the widely read Arthurian legends was first mentioned in an uncited 1702 survey return mentioning written during the 1500s. Codorus Creek was first mentioned in a lands “at Quaticlassy.” Davis may have based the spelling of the the community’s first post office was named Holicong. Local historian George MacReynolds (1976:195-197) identifies Holicong as a respelled version of a traditional name of a local spring variously called Konkey Hole and Hollekonk Well. Whatever the name’s ori- LAHAWA (Chester County). This slightly respelled version of Lagins, Greenville residents chose the new post office name Holicong haway from New Jersey adorns a drive in the community of Glento adorn their community by the beginning of the twentieth century. moore. INDIANTOWN (Chester County). Discovery of archaeological remains in and around the East Branch of the Brandywine River valley community of Glenmoore that many local collectors think come from historically undocumented Delaware occupations is the probable source of the names of present-day Indiantown Road and nearby Indian Run. KIPPACK. See SKIPPACK LENAPE (Monroe County). Lenape Lane is one of the many Delaware Indian names in the Arrowhead Lake development. LINGOHOCKING (Bucks County). The name of the Lingohocking Fire Department in the community of Penns Park is a slightly respelled variant of Wingohocking transferred to Bucks County. LYCOMING (Philadelphia County). Lycoming Street in the City of Philadelphia bears an imported name from the valley of the West KITTANNING (Allegheny, Blair, and Butler, and Clarion coun- Branch of the Susquehanna River. and Gibsonia, and streets in the cities of Harrisburg and Philadelphia. MAUNATOME (Susquehanna County). Although it may appear Delaware, the name of Maunatome Mountain, located just east of NAMANOCK (Monroe County). Namanock Trail (see Namanock the Borough of Hallstead at the Great Bend of the Susquehanna in New Jersey North in Part 1 above) is one of the many imported River, is another of many transplanted place names from New Eng- Delaware Indian place names in the Arrowhead Lake development. land brought to the region during the last decades of the eighteenth century. Maunatome is a somewhat respelled