Toponymy of Bergen, New Netherland
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Bergen
was part of the 17th century colony of New Netherland
centered around Fort Amsterdam
in what is now northeastern New Jersey
. Placenames in most cases had their roots in Algonquian language
Lenape and Dutch
.
At the time of European settlement it was the territory of the Acquackanonk
Raritan, Tappan
, and Hackensack Indians. The Munsee lived in its northwestern reaches (Highlands), while the Wappinger
lived to the northeast (Hudson Valley
) and the Canarsee and Reckgawawanc
lived to the east. The definition of these groups as they are known today is often from the perception of the colonizing population, who tended to call the existing people by the name of a location within their territory, thus creating an exonym. Both the Lenape and Dutch often gave names inspired by the geography or geology of the natural environment and described a shape, location, feature, quality, or phenonmenon.
The Lenape
were without a written language. The Swannikens, or Salt Water People (as the Europeans were called) , used the Latin alphabet
to write down the words they heard from the Wilden (as the Lenape were called).. These approxiamations were no doubt greatly influenced by Dutch, which was the lingua franca
of the multilingual province. Some names still exist in their altered form, their current spelling (and presumably pronouciation) having evolved over the last four centuries into American English
.
In some cases it cannot be confirmed, or there is contention, as to whether the roots are in the Dutch or the Lenape, as sources do not always concur. In others, the meaning of the Lenape can have several interpretations. Locative suffixes vary depending on the dialect (usually Munsee or Unami
) of the Lenape that prevailed.
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Acquackanonk
Name of an Unami group who lived along and between the banks of the Passaic Neck and the name of one of state's first townships, established in 1683. Meaning a place in a rapid stream where fishing is done with a net, Alternatively, at the lamprey stream from contemporary axkwaakahnung. Spellings include Achquakanonk, Acquackanonk,Auchaquackanock, Ackquekenon
and the rivers that flowed into it. Neither are longer in use. Achter, meaning behind, and kol, meaning neck, can be translated as the back (of the) peninsula, in this case Bergen Neck
.
Variations include Achter Kol, Achter Kull, Archer Col, Achter Kull
Arresick
A tidal island
, site of first ferry landing for the patroonship Pavonia, which became Paulus Hook.
Spellings include , and Arressechhonk' and Aresick meaning burial ground
Arthur Kill
Tidal
strait
separating Staten Island from the mainland. From kille
meaning water channel such as riverbed, rivulet, or stream . Likely to have evolved from Achter Col, the name given by the New Netherland
ers for area surrounding Newark Bay
and waters that flowed into it, as English language speakers immigrated to the region radiating from the Elizabethtown Tract
and Perth Amboy.
Bedloe's Island Now known as Liberty Island
, under Dutch sovereignty the island became the property of Isaack Bedloo, merchant and "select burgher" of New Amsterdam, and one of 94 signers of the "Remonstrance of the People of New Netherlands to the Director-General and Council".
Bergen
There are various opinions as to the naming of Bergen. Some say that it so called for Bergen op Zoom
in the Netherlands
or the city in Norway
Others believe it comes from the word bergen, which in the Germanic languages
of northern Europe means hills, and could describe a most distinct geological feature of the region, The Palisades
. Yet another interpretation is that it comes from the Dutch verb bergen, meaning to save or to recover, or noun place of safety inspired by the settlers return after they had fled attacks by the native population after the Peach Tree War
.
Caven Point The Caven Point settlement at Minkakwa on the west shore of the Upper New York Bay
between Pamrapo and Communipaw
was part of Pavonia
, and now part of Liberty State Park
. The name Caven is a anglicisation
of the Dutch word Kewan, which in turn was a "Batavianized
" derivative of an Algonquian
word meaning peninsula.
Communipaw
Site of summer encampament and counsel fire of the Hackensack, its complete meaning has been lost.
Spellings include Gamoenapa,'Gemonepan, Gemoenepaen, Gamenepaw, Comounepaw, Comounepan Communipau , Goneuipan
From gamunk, on the other side of the river, and pe-auke, water-land, meaning big landing-place from the other side of the river.
Contemporary: gamuck meaning other side of the water or otherside of the river or landing place at the side of a river
Site of first "bouwerie
" built at Pavonia and called Jan de Lacher's Hoeck
some have suggested that it comes from Community of Pauw, which likely is more a coincidence that a fact.
Constable Hook A land grant to Jacob Jacobsen Roy who was a chief gunner or constable in Fort Amsterdam in New Amsterdam
in 1646, by the Dutch West India Company
, under the leadership of Director-General William Kieft. Konstapel's Hoeck in Dutch, takes its name from Roy's title..
A hoek or hoeck in Dutch meaning a spit of land or small peninsula. Though not used, could be translated to English as Gunner's Point.
Cromakill
Likely from kromme kille meaning crooked creek, border between Secaucus and North Bergen. Similar to evolution of
Gramercy
, which is a corruption of the krom mesje, or little crooked knife, the name of a small brook that flowed along what is now 21st Street in Manhattan
.
Cresskill
From the watercress that grew in its streams, or kills
Deep Voll
Diepte Voll, which literally translates to Deep Fall, to describe the brook's numerous waterfalls and steep slopes. Known as Muksukemuk to the Lenape
Dwars Kill
Alternatively Dwarskill or Dwarskill Creek, a tributary
of the Oradell Reservoir
meaning cross creek
Dunkerhook
Small section of suburban Paramus reputed to be the former site of a "slave community." According to local histories and an historic marker at the site, Dunkerhook was once home to a population of African Americans, many or all of whom were slaves, as well as a "slave school" and "slave church." However, primary historic documentation establishes that Dunkerhook was populated not by slaves, but rather primarily by free African Americans.
was likely so called the English Township because of the settlers who came to reside there who were not New Netherlander
, namely many English language speakers from the West Indies and New England
Hackensack
The meadowlands
, river
and city
, the Lenape group and their territory, take their name from site of semi-permanent encampment on the neck between the river and Overpeck Creek
, near the Teaneck Ridge
.
Variously translated as place of stony ground or place of sharp ground .
Spellings include Ahkingeesahkuy, Achsinnigeu-haki, Achinigeu-hach, Ack-kinkas-hacky, Achkinhenhcky, Ackingsah-sack, Ackinckeshacky,
Hackinsack'
Alternatively, suggested as the place where two rivers come together on low ground or stream which discharges itself into another on the level ground, which would speak to the confluence of the Hackensack and Overpeck Creek
or Passaic River
.
Harsimus
Meaning is not clear, possibly Crow's Marsh. Site of a seasonal Hackensack encampment and one of first "bouweries
" built by Dutch settlers at Pavonia.
Spellings include: Aharsimus,Ahasimus,Hasymes, Haassemus, Hahassemes, Hasimus, Horseemes, Hasseme , Horsimus
Contemporary: ahas meaning crow
Haverstraw One of the first locales to appear on maps of North America, listed as Haverstroo, which means oat straw.
Hoboken
Tobacco pipe, from hoopookum or hupoken
Most likely to refer to the soapstone
collected there to carve tobacco pipes, in a phrase that became Hopoghan Hackingh or place of stone for the tobacco pipe
Contemporary: Hopoakan meaning pipe for smoking
Alternatively from Hoebuck, old Dutch for high bluff and likely referring to Castle Point
Variations used during the colonial era included Hobock,Hobocan, Hoboocken, and Hobuck,.Although the spelling Hoboken was used by the English as early as 1668 , it doesn't appear that until Col. John Steven
purchased the land on which the city is situated that it became common.
Some would believe the city to named after European town of the same name. The Flemish
Hoboken, annexed in 1983 to Antwerp, Belgium
, is derived from Middle Dutch Hooghe Buechen or Hoge Beuken, meaning High Beech
es or Tall Beeches.. Established in 1135, the New Netherlanders were likely aware of its existence (and may have pronounced the Lenape to conform a more familiar sound), but it is doubtful that the city on the Hudson is named for it.
Houvenkopf
The mountain's name is from the Dutch Hooge Kop, meaning High Head.
Kill van Kull
Separating Bayonne
and Staten Island
. From the Middle Dutch
word kille
, meaning riverbed or water channel. Likely evolved from Achter Col, as in kille van kol, or channel from the neck, its spellings including Kill von Cull, Kille van Cole, Kill van Koll
Kinderkamack This distinctly Dutch sounding name which describes the area along middle reaches of
Hackensack River, is said to come from the Lenape and mean place of ceremonial dance and worship
Losen Slote
A tributary of the Hackensack River
, from losen and sloot, or a dumping trench, essentially an open sewer.
Mahwah
Mawewi meaning meeting place or place where paths meet[7][8] or assembly
Contemporary: mawemin
Manhattan
From Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson
's yacht Halve Maen
(Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River
). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as island of many hills . The Encyclopedia of New York City
offers other derivations, including from the Munsee dialect
of Lenape: manahachtanienk ("place of general inebriation"), manahatouh ("place where timber is procured for bows and arrows"), or menatay ("island").
Meghgectecock
This is perhaps an approximation of masgichteu-cunk meaning where May-apples grow, from a moist-woodland perennial that bears edible yellow berries and used to describe the lobe of land between and the confluence of the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers at Newark Bay. It was part of Achter Col for the New Netherlanders and New Barbadoes Neck
to the British.
Contemporary: masgichteu meaning may apple
Minkakwa
On Bergen Neck
between Pamrapo
and Communipaw
at Caven Point
,. first settled by New Netherlanders in 1647. Spellings include Minelque and Minkacque
meaning a place of good crossing probably because it was the most convenient pass between the two bays on either side of the neck, (or could mean place where the coves meet; in this case where they are closet to each and, hence advantageous for portage.)
Moonachie Ground hog, badger, or place of dug up earth
Contemporary:monachgeu for groundhog, and munhacke for badger and munhageen meaning to dig a hole
Noort Rivier
Called Muhheakantuck
or the river that flowed two ways in Unami.
The Noort Rivier was one of the three main rivers in New Nederland, the others being the Versche Rivier
or Fresh River (likely because of its sweet water) and the Zuid Rivier
or South River. In maritme usage, it still defines that part of the Hudson
between Hudson County and Manhattan
. Another story of its origin has it that the rivers connected to New York Harbor
are named the "North" River and "East" River
based on what direction of travel they permit.
Outwater
Possibly uiterwaarden meaning a flood plain, of which there were many, this one at the foot of Paterson Plank Road
. More likely from a landowner in the area.
Or
Overpeck
Oever meaning a sloping bank and perk meaning border or boundary, hence at the water's edge , actually a riparian zone. Used in English as early as 1665. By the Lenape called Tantaqua, it was the site of semi-permanent village of the Hackensack.
Pequannock
From Paquettahhnuake meaning cleared land ready or being readied for cultivation. Packanack is also contemporary variation of this place and the people
Pacquanacs
Pamrapo
On Bergen Neck
between Constable Hook and Communipaw
. Spellings include Pimbrepow, Pembrepock, Pemmerepoch, Pimlipo, Pemrepau , Pemrapaugh, and Pamrapough
Paramus From Parampseapus or Peremessing meaning , perhaps, where there is worthwhile (or fertile) land or place of wild turkeys. Seapus or sipus is said to mean water, so the name may mean turkey river. Saddle River was also called Peramseapus. Spellings include Pyramus.
Passaic
The county
, river
and city
are taken from pahsayèk,
pahsaayeek and pasayak, meaning valley or water that flows through the valley. Spellings include: Pawsaick, Pissawack
Contemporary: Pachsa'jeek
Pompton
Has been cited by some sources to mean a place where they catch soft fish.
, called Arresick by the Lenape the site where, in 1630, Michael Pauw
staked a claim for his attempted patroonship, Pavonia
. Named after his agent who built a hut and ferry landing there, hoek or hoeck meaning a spit or point.
Variations include Paulus Hoeck, Powles Hoek, Powles Hook
Ramapo
Name for the mountains
and river
and towns, meaning
underneath the rock, spellings: Ramapough, Ramopock
Raritan
The people, river
, bay
, and towns take their name from a derviation of Naraticong meaning river beyond the island (which, considering location, could be Staten Island
).
Some would believe that is comes from Roaton or Raritanghe, a tribe which had come from across the Hudson River
and displaced the existing population of Sanhicans.
Alternatively, Raritan is a Dutch pronunciation of wawitan or rarachons meaning forked river or stream overflows.
Sand Hoek
Sometimes called Sand Punt the peninsula around which most settlers to Fort Amsterdam
, Fort Orange, Staten Eylandt
, and Lange Eylandt
, and Bergen
sailed before entering The Narrows
.
and Schraalenburgh North Church
Secaucus
Sukit meaning black and achgook meaning snake, hence black snakes.
Spellings include Sekakes, Sikakes, Sickakus. Contemporary: seke meaning black and xkuk or achgook
meaning snake.
Locally, pronounced "SEE-kaw-cus", with the accent on the first syllable, not the second as often used by non-natives.
Snake Hill
, in Secaucus, is a geolologic intrusion
in the midst of the Meadowlands
.
Sicomac
Said to mean resting place for the departed or happy hunting ground since this area of Wyckoff
, according to tradition, was the burial place of many Native Americans, possibly including Oratam
, sagamore of the Hackensack Indians Contemporary schikamik meaning hole or grave or machtschikamikunk meaning a burial place
Staaten Eylandt
To the Lenape, the island was known as Aquehonga, Manacknong and Eghquaons (Jackson, 1995).
Named by colonlists for the governing body of the 17th century United Provinces of the Netherlands, The States-General
.
Tantaqua
Overpeck Creek
, site of Hackensack semi-permanent village, for one of the chiefs of the resident Lenape
Tappan
The region radiating from Palisades Interstate Park and its inhabitants as named by New Netherlanders, who spelled it as Tappaen. Site of the "bouwerie
" Vriessendael
.
Possibly from Tuphanne meaning cold water
Likely more related to contemporary petapan meaning dawn or petapaniui meaning at the break of dawn, and relates to their kin across the river, the Wappinger,, whose name is derived from the Algonquian people of the east or easterners. (Contemporary: Wapaneu meaning easterly and Wapanke meaning to-morrow.)
"Tiene Neck" meaning "neck where there are willows" (from the Dutch "tene" meaning willow).
Tenafly
From Dutch ten and vlaie
, hence Tiene Vly or Ten Swamps given by settlers in 1688.
Watchung
The place of mountains from watchtsu, which describes the three ridges west of the Meadowlands.
Weehawken
Variously interpreted as or rocks that look like rows of trees or at the end of (the Palisades or stream that flowed from them.) and place of gulls.
Spelling have included: Awiehawken, Wiehacken, Weehauk, Weehawk, Weehock, Wiceaken,Wihaken, Wyhaken, and Wiehachan
Curiously, Peter Minuit
, first governor of New Netherland, sailed to the new world upon a ship called the "Seagull", or in Dutch, Het "Meeuwken" (which bears a strking resemblance)
, or homestead established in 1640 at today's Edgewater
, meaning Vries' Valley, after its founder David Pietersen de Vries
.
Pre-American Revolution
After the final transfer of power to the English (with the Treaty of Westminster
) that settlers to New Netherland
and their descendents spread across the region and established many of the towns and cities which exist today. The Dutch Reformed Church
played an important role this expansion Following the course of the Hudson River
in the north via New York Harbor
to the Raritan River
in the south, settlement and population grew along what George Washington
called the "Dutch Belt".. The American classis secured a charter in 1766 for Queens College (now Rutgers University
), where the appointment in 1784 of John Henry Livingston
as professor of theology marked the beginning of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary
.
Bergen, New Netherland
Bergen was a part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, in the area in northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers that would become contemporary Hudson and Bergen Counties...
was part of the 17th century colony of New Netherland
New Netherland
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...
centered around Fort Amsterdam
Fort Amsterdam
For the historic fort on the island of Saint Martin, see Fort Amsterdam Fort Amsterdam was a fort on the southern tip of Manhattan that was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British rule of New York from...
in what is now northeastern New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. Placenames in most cases had their roots in Algonquian language
Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...
Lenape and Dutch
Dutch language
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.
At the time of European settlement it was the territory of the Acquackanonk
Acquackanonk (Native Americans)
The Acquackanonk were a Lenape group whose territory was on the Passaic River in northern New Jersey. They spoke the same dialect and shared the same totem as the neighboring Hackensack, Tappan and Rumachenanck ....
Raritan, Tappan
Tappan (Native Americans)
The Tappan were a Lenape people who inhabited the region radiating from Hudson Palisades and New York – New Jersey Highlands in at the time of European colonialization in the 17th century....
, and Hackensack Indians. The Munsee lived in its northwestern reaches (Highlands), while the Wappinger
Wappinger
The Wappinger were an American tribe native to eastern New York. The term "Wappinger" may also refer to:* Wappinger, New York, the Town of Wappinger named for the tribe...
lived to the northeast (Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in New York State, United States, from northern Westchester County northward to the cities of Albany and Troy.-History:...
) and the Canarsee and Reckgawawanc
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
lived to the east. The definition of these groups as they are known today is often from the perception of the colonizing population, who tended to call the existing people by the name of a location within their territory, thus creating an exonym. Both the Lenape and Dutch often gave names inspired by the geography or geology of the natural environment and described a shape, location, feature, quality, or phenonmenon.
The Lenape
Lenape
The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...
were without a written language. The Swannikens, or Salt Water People (as the Europeans were called) , used the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...
to write down the words they heard from the Wilden (as the Lenape were called).. These approxiamations were no doubt greatly influenced by Dutch, which was the lingua franca
Lingua franca
A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues.-Characteristics:"Lingua franca" is a functionally defined term, independent of the linguistic...
of the multilingual province. Some names still exist in their altered form, their current spelling (and presumably pronouciation) having evolved over the last four centuries into American English
English language
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.
In some cases it cannot be confirmed, or there is contention, as to whether the roots are in the Dutch or the Lenape, as sources do not always concur. In others, the meaning of the Lenape can have several interpretations. Locative suffixes vary depending on the dialect (usually Munsee or Unami
Unami language
Unami is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by Lenape people in what is now the lower Hudson Valley area and New York Harbor area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma. It is one of the two Delaware languages, the other being Munsee...
) of the Lenape that prevailed.
AcquackanonkAcquackanonk TownshipAcquackanonk Township was incorporated in 1693 by the British in the newly established Province of New Jersey and was located in what was then the northern part of Essex County on the Passaic River...
Name of an Unami group who lived along and between the banks of the Passaic Neck and the name of one of state's first townships, established in 1683. Meaning a place in a rapid stream where fishing is done with a net, Alternatively, at the lamprey stream from contemporary axkwaakahnung. Spellings include Achquakanonk, Acquackanonk,Auchaquackanock, Ackquekenon Achter Col
Called Meghgectecock by the Lenape this described the area around Newark BayNewark Bay
Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey. It is home to the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, the largest container shipping facility in Port of New York and New Jersey, 3rd largest and one of busiest in the United States...
and the rivers that flowed into it. Neither are longer in use. Achter, meaning behind, and kol, meaning neck, can be translated as the back (of the) peninsula, in this case Bergen Neck
Bergen Neck
Bergen Neck is a name for the peninsula between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay in the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Bayonne and Jersey City...
.
Variations include Achter Kol, Achter Kull, Archer Col, Achter Kull
ArresickExchange Place, Jersey CityExchange Place is a district of Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey that is sometimes referred to as "Wall Street West" due to the concentration of financial concerns which have offices there...
A tidal islandTidal island
A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands many of them have been sites of religious worship, such as Mont Saint Michel with its...
, site of first ferry landing for the patroonship Pavonia, which became Paulus Hook.
Spellings include , and Arressechhonk' and Aresick meaning burial ground
Arthur Kill
Arthur Kill
The Arthur Kill is a tidal strait separating Staten Island, New York from mainland New Jersey, USA, and a major navigational channel of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Kill is from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel"...
Tidal
Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun and the rotation of the Earth....
strait
Strait
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separating Staten Island from the mainland. From kille
Kill (body of water)
As a body of water, a kill is a creek. The word comes from the Middle Dutch kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel." The modern Dutch term is kil....
meaning water channel such as riverbed, rivulet, or stream . Likely to have evolved from Achter Col, the name given by the New Netherland
New Netherland
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...
ers for area surrounding Newark Bay
Newark Bay
Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey. It is home to the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, the largest container shipping facility in Port of New York and New Jersey, 3rd largest and one of busiest in the United States...
and waters that flowed into it, as English language speakers immigrated to the region radiating from the Elizabethtown Tract
Elizabethtown Tract
The Elizabethtown Tract was a property that was purchased on October 28, 1664, by John Baily, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson from the Native Americans that is in the area of present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey....
and Perth Amboy.
Bedloe's Island Now known as Liberty Island
Liberty Island
Liberty Island is a small uninhabited island in New York Harbor in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. Though so called since the turn of the century, the name did not become official until 1956. In 1937, by proclamation 2250, President Franklin D...
, under Dutch sovereignty the island became the property of Isaack Bedloo, merchant and "select burgher" of New Amsterdam, and one of 94 signers of the "Remonstrance of the People of New Netherlands to the Director-General and Council".
Bergen
Bergen
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There are various opinions as to the naming of Bergen. Some say that it so called for Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.-History:Bergen op Zoom was granted city status probably in 1266. In 1287 the city and its surroundings became a lordship as it was separated from the lordship of Breda. The lordship was elevated to a margraviate...
in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
or the city in Norway
Bergen
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....
Others believe it comes from the word bergen, which in the Germanic languages
Germanic languages
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of northern Europe means hills, and could describe a most distinct geological feature of the region, The Palisades
New Jersey Palisades
The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson Palisades are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in northeastern New Jersey and southern New York in the United States. The cliffs stretch north from Jersey City approximately 20 mi to near...
. Yet another interpretation is that it comes from the Dutch verb bergen, meaning to save or to recover, or noun place of safety inspired by the settlers return after they had fled attacks by the native population after the Peach Tree War
Peach Tree War
The Peach Tree War, also known as the "Peach War," is the name given to a large scale attack on the New Netherland colony of Pavonia, across from New Amsterdam, and surrounding settlements along the North River by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on September 15,...
.
Caven Point The Caven Point settlement at Minkakwa on the west shore of the Upper New York Bay
Upper New York Bay
Upper New York Bay, or Upper Bay, is the traditional heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey, and often called New York Harbor. It is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne.It...
between Pamrapo and Communipaw
Communipaw
Communipaw is a section of Jersey City, New Jersey west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, and site of one the earliest European settlements in North America. It gives its name to the historic avenue which runs from its eastern end near LSP Station through the neighborhoods of...
was part of Pavonia
Pavonia, New Netherland
Pavonia was the first European settlement on the west bank of the North River that was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland in what would become today's Hudson County, New Jersey.-Hudson and the Hackensack:...
, and now part of Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park is located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, New Jersey, opposite the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The park opened in 1976 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations and is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.-Geography and...
. The name Caven is a anglicisation
Anglicisation
Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...
of the Dutch word Kewan, which in turn was a "Batavianized
Batavians
The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, reported by Tacitus to have lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that is currently the Netherlands, "an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the...
" derivative of an Algonquian
Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...
word meaning peninsula.
Communipaw
Communipaw
Communipaw is a section of Jersey City, New Jersey west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, and site of one the earliest European settlements in North America. It gives its name to the historic avenue which runs from its eastern end near LSP Station through the neighborhoods of...
Site of summer encampament and counsel fire of the Hackensack, its complete meaning has been lost.
Spellings include Gamoenapa,'Gemonepan, Gemoenepaen, Gamenepaw, Comounepaw, Comounepan Communipau , Goneuipan
From gamunk, on the other side of the river, and pe-auke, water-land, meaning big landing-place from the other side of the river.
Contemporary: gamuck meaning other side of the water or otherside of the river or landing place at the side of a river
Site of first "bouwerie
Bowery
Bowery may refer to:Streets:* The Bowery, a thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City* Bowery Street is a street on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.In popular culture:* Bowery Amphitheatre, a building on the Bowery in New York City...
" built at Pavonia and called Jan de Lacher's Hoeck
some have suggested that it comes from Community of Pauw, which likely is more a coincidence that a fact.
Constable Hook A land grant to Jacob Jacobsen Roy who was a chief gunner or constable in Fort Amsterdam in New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. It later became New York City....
in 1646, by the Dutch West India Company
Dutch West India Company
Dutch West India Company was a chartered company of Dutch merchants. Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx...
, under the leadership of Director-General William Kieft. Konstapel's Hoeck in Dutch, takes its name from Roy's title..
A hoek or hoeck in Dutch meaning a spit of land or small peninsula. Though not used, could be translated to English as Gunner's Point.
Cromakill
Hackensack RiverWalk
Hackensack RiverWalk a is partially constructed greenway along the Newark Bay and Hackensack River on the west side of the Bergen Neck peninsula in Hudson County, New Jersey...
Likely from kromme kille meaning crooked creek, border between Secaucus and North Bergen. Similar to evolution of
Gramercy
Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park is a small, fenced-in private park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park is at the core of both the neighborhood referred to as either Gramercy or Gramercy Park and the Gramercy Park Historic District...
, which is a corruption of the krom mesje, or little crooked knife, the name of a small brook that flowed along what is now 21st Street in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
.
Kill (body of water)
As a body of water, a kill is a creek. The word comes from the Middle Dutch kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel." The modern Dutch term is kil....
Deep Voll
Deep Voll Brook
Deep Voll Brook, also known as Deep Brook , is a tributary of Goffle Brook and part of the Passaic River watershed. The brook drains part of the eastern flank of First Watchung Mountain, cutting through portions of Bergen and Passaic county in New Jersey...
Diepte Voll, which literally translates to Deep Fall, to describe the brook's numerous waterfalls and steep slopes. Known as Muksukemuk to the Lenape
Lenape
The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...
Dwars Kill
Dwars Kill
The Dwars Kill is a tributary of the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States...
Alternatively Dwarskill or Dwarskill Creek, a tributary
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
of the Oradell Reservoir
Oradell Reservoir
The Oradell Reservoir was formed by the Oradell Reservoir Dam placed on the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, completed in 1923. The Oradell Reservoir Dam is located in Oradell, but the reservoir also straddles the borders of Haworth, Emerson, Closter and Harrington Park.The reservoir...
meaning cross creek
Dunkerhook
Paramus, New Jersey
Paramus is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 26,342. A suburb of New York City, Paramus is located between 15–20 miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan and approximately west of Upper Manhattan.Paramus is one of...
Small section of suburban Paramus reputed to be the former site of a "slave community." According to local histories and an historic marker at the site, Dunkerhook was once home to a population of African Americans, many or all of whom were slaves, as well as a "slave school" and "slave church." However, primary historic documentation establishes that Dunkerhook was populated not by slaves, but rather primarily by free African Americans.
English Neighborhood
The former Ridgefield Township in southeastern Bergen CountyBergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 905,116. The county is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Hackensack...
was likely so called the English Township because of the settlers who came to reside there who were not New Netherlander
New Netherlander
New Netherlanders were residents of New Netherland, the seventeenth century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America, centered around the Hudson River and New York Bay, and at the end of the colony in the Delaware Valley.The...
, namely many English language speakers from the West Indies and New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
Hackensack
New Jersey Meadowlands
New Jersey Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands after the primary river flowing through it, is a general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeast New Jersey in the United States. The Meadowlands are known for being the site of large landfills and decades of...
The meadowlands
New Jersey Meadowlands
New Jersey Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands after the primary river flowing through it, is a general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeast New Jersey in the United States. The Meadowlands are known for being the site of large landfills and decades of...
, river
Hackensack River
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburban area outside New York City just west of the lower Hudson River,...
and city
Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack is a city in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 43,010....
, the Lenape group and their territory, take their name from site of semi-permanent encampment on the neck between the river and Overpeck Creek
Overpeck Creek
Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately 8 miles long, in Bergen County in northern New Jersey in the United States. The upper creek flows through suburban communities west of New York City...
, near the Teaneck Ridge
Teaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County....
.
Variously translated as place of stony ground or place of sharp ground .
Spellings include Ahkingeesahkuy, Achsinnigeu-haki, Achinigeu-hach, Ack-kinkas-hacky, Achkinhenhcky, Ackingsah-sack, Ackinckeshacky,
Hackinsack'
Alternatively, suggested as the place where two rivers come together on low ground or stream which discharges itself into another on the level ground, which would speak to the confluence of the Hackensack and Overpeck Creek
Overpeck Creek
Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately 8 miles long, in Bergen County in northern New Jersey in the United States. The upper creek flows through suburban communities west of New York City...
or Passaic River
Passaic River
The Passaic River is a mature surface river, approximately 80 mi long, in northern New Jersey in the United States. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey,...
.
Harsimus
Harsimus Cove (HBLR station)
Harsimus Cove is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail located at Metro Plaza Drive in the Harsimus Section of Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey....
Meaning is not clear, possibly Crow's Marsh. Site of a seasonal Hackensack encampment and one of first "bouweries
Bowery
Bowery may refer to:Streets:* The Bowery, a thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City* Bowery Street is a street on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.In popular culture:* Bowery Amphitheatre, a building on the Bowery in New York City...
" built by Dutch settlers at Pavonia.
Spellings include: Aharsimus,Ahasimus,Hasymes, Haassemus, Hahassemes, Hasimus, Horseemes, Hasseme , Horsimus
Contemporary: ahas meaning crow
Haverstraw One of the first locales to appear on maps of North America, listed as Haverstroo, which means oat straw.
Hoboken
Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 50,005. The city is part of the New York metropolitan area and contains Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the region...
Tobacco pipe, from hoopookum or hupoken
Most likely to refer to the soapstone
Soapstone
Soapstone is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of the mineral talc and is thus rich in magnesium. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occurs in the areas where tectonic plates are subducted, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx...
collected there to carve tobacco pipes, in a phrase that became Hopoghan Hackingh or place of stone for the tobacco pipe
Contemporary: Hopoakan meaning pipe for smoking
Alternatively from Hoebuck, old Dutch for high bluff and likely referring to Castle Point
Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken, New Jersey is home to many parks, historical landmarks, and other places of interest.-Carlo's Bakery:A famous bakery and setting for the TLC reality television series Cake Boss. It is located on Washington Street, across from City Hall....
Variations used during the colonial era included Hobock,Hobocan, Hoboocken, and Hobuck,.Although the spelling Hoboken was used by the English as early as 1668 , it doesn't appear that until Col. John Steven
John Stevens (inventor)
Col. John Stevens, III was an American lawyer, engineer and an inventor.-Life and career:Born the son of John Stevens , a prominent New Jersey politician who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of New York lawyer and statesman James Alexander. His...
purchased the land on which the city is situated that it became common.
Some would believe the city to named after European town of the same name. The Flemish
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
Hoboken, annexed in 1983 to Antwerp, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, is derived from Middle Dutch Hooghe Buechen or Hoge Beuken, meaning High Beech
Beech
Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.-Habit:...
es or Tall Beeches.. Established in 1135, the New Netherlanders were likely aware of its existence (and may have pronounced the Lenape to conform a more familiar sound), but it is doubtful that the city on the Hudson is named for it.
Houvenkopf
Houvenkopf Mountain
Houvenkopf or Hovenkopf Mountain is a mountain in Bergen County, New Jersey, extending into New York, where it forms the western side of the southern entrance to Ramapo Pass. The major peak on the New Jersey side rises to and is known as Stag Hill...
The mountain's name is from the Dutch Hooge Kop, meaning High Head.
Kill van Kull
Kill Van Kull
The Kill Van Kull is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey in the United States. Approximately long and wide, it connects Newark Bay with Upper New York Bay. The Robbins Reef Light marks the eastern end of the Kill, Bergen Point its western end...
Separating Bayonne
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east...
and Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
. From the Middle Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
word kille
Kill (body of water)
As a body of water, a kill is a creek. The word comes from the Middle Dutch kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel." The modern Dutch term is kil....
, meaning riverbed or water channel. Likely evolved from Achter Col, as in kille van kol, or channel from the neck, its spellings including Kill von Cull, Kille van Cole, Kill van Koll
Kinderkamack This distinctly Dutch sounding name which describes the area along middle reaches of
Hackensack River, is said to come from the Lenape and mean place of ceremonial dance and worship
Losen Slote
Little Ferry, New Jersey
Little Ferry is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 10,626.-Geography:Little Ferry is located at ....
A tributary of the Hackensack River
Hackensack River
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburban area outside New York City just west of the lower Hudson River,...
, from losen and sloot, or a dumping trench, essentially an open sewer.
Mahwah
Mahwah, New Jersey
Mahwah is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 25,890. The name Mahwah is derived from the Lenni Lenape word "mawewi" which means "Meeting Place" or "Place Where Paths Meet".The area that is now Mahwah was...
Mawewi meaning meeting place or place where paths meet[7][8] or assembly
Contemporary: mawemin
Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
From Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...
's yacht Halve Maen
Halve Maen
The Halve Maen was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot which sailed into what is now New York harbor in September 1609. It was commissioned by the Dutch Republic to covertly find an eastern passage to China...
(Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as island of many hills . The Encyclopedia of New York City
The Encyclopedia of New York City
The Encyclopedia of New York City is a comprehensive reference book on New York City. Historian and Columbia University professor Kenneth T...
offers other derivations, including from the Munsee dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
of Lenape: manahachtanienk ("place of general inebriation"), manahatouh ("place where timber is procured for bows and arrows"), or menatay ("island").
Meghgectecock
New Barbadoes Neck
New Barbadoes Neck is the name given in the colonial era for the peninsula in northeastern New Jersey, USA between the lower Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, in what is now western Hudson County and southern Bergen County...
New Barbadoes Neck
New Barbadoes Neck is the name given in the colonial era for the peninsula in northeastern New Jersey, USA between the lower Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, in what is now western Hudson County and southern Bergen County...
to the British.
Contemporary: masgichteu meaning may apple
Minkakwa
Greenville, Jersey City
Greenville is the southernmost section of Jersey City, New Jersey.In its broadest definition Greenville encompasses the area south of the West Side Branch of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and north of the city line with Bayonne, between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay, and corresponds to the...
On Bergen Neck
Bergen Neck
Bergen Neck is a name for the peninsula between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay in the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Bayonne and Jersey City...
between Pamrapo
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east...
and Communipaw
Communipaw
Communipaw is a section of Jersey City, New Jersey west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, and site of one the earliest European settlements in North America. It gives its name to the historic avenue which runs from its eastern end near LSP Station through the neighborhoods of...
at Caven Point
Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park is located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, New Jersey, opposite the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The park opened in 1976 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations and is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.-Geography and...
,. first settled by New Netherlanders in 1647. Spellings include Minelque and Minkacque
meaning a place of good crossing probably because it was the most convenient pass between the two bays on either side of the neck, (or could mean place where the coves meet; in this case where they are closet to each and, hence advantageous for portage.)
Moonachie Ground hog, badger, or place of dug up earth
Contemporary:monachgeu for groundhog, and munhacke for badger and munhageen meaning to dig a hole
North River (New York-New Jersey)
North River is an alternate name for the southernmost portion of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern New Jersey. The colonial name for the entire Hudson given to it by the Dutch in the early seventeenth century, the term fell out of general use for most of the river's...
Called Muhheakantuck
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
or the river that flowed two ways in Unami.
The Noort Rivier was one of the three main rivers in New Nederland, the others being the Versche Rivier
Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the largest and longest river in New England, and also an American Heritage River. It flows roughly south, starting from the Fourth Connecticut Lake in New Hampshire. After flowing through the remaining Connecticut Lakes and Lake Francis, it defines the border between the...
or Fresh River (likely because of its sweet water) and the Zuid Rivier
Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.A Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson in 1609 first mapped the river. The river was christened the South River in the New Netherland colony that followed, in contrast to the North River, as the Hudson River was then...
or South River. In maritme usage, it still defines that part of the Hudson
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
between Hudson County and Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
. Another story of its origin has it that the rivers connected to New York Harbor
New York Harbor
New York Harbor refers to the waterways of the estuary near the mouth of the Hudson River that empty into New York Bay. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Although the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental,...
are named the "North" River and "East" River
East River
The East River is a tidal strait in New York City. It connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx on the North American mainland...
based on what direction of travel they permit.
Outwater
Paterson Plank Road
Paterson Plank Road is a road that runs through Passaic, Bergen and Hudson Counties in northeastern New Jersey originally lain in the colonial era. The route, connecting the city Paterson and the Hudson River waterfront, still exists...
Possibly uiterwaarden meaning a flood plain, of which there were many, this one at the foot of Paterson Plank Road
Paterson Plank Road
Paterson Plank Road is a road that runs through Passaic, Bergen and Hudson Counties in northeastern New Jersey originally lain in the colonial era. The route, connecting the city Paterson and the Hudson River waterfront, still exists...
. More likely from a landowner in the area.
Or
Overpeck
Overpeck Creek
Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately 8 miles long, in Bergen County in northern New Jersey in the United States. The upper creek flows through suburban communities west of New York City...
Oever meaning a sloping bank and perk meaning border or boundary, hence at the water's edge , actually a riparian zone. Used in English as early as 1665. By the Lenape called Tantaqua, it was the site of semi-permanent village of the Hackensack.
Pequannock
Pequannock Township, New Jersey
Pequannock Township is a Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,888....
From Paquettahhnuake meaning cleared land ready or being readied for cultivation. Packanack is also contemporary variation of this place and the people
Pacquanacs
Pamrapo
Bayonne, New Jersey
Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east...
On Bergen Neck
Bergen Neck
Bergen Neck is a name for the peninsula between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay in the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Bayonne and Jersey City...
between Constable Hook and Communipaw
Communipaw
Communipaw is a section of Jersey City, New Jersey west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, and site of one the earliest European settlements in North America. It gives its name to the historic avenue which runs from its eastern end near LSP Station through the neighborhoods of...
. Spellings include Pimbrepow, Pembrepock, Pemmerepoch, Pimlipo, Pemrepau , Pemrapaugh, and Pamrapough
Paramus From Parampseapus or Peremessing meaning , perhaps, where there is worthwhile (or fertile) land or place of wild turkeys. Seapus or sipus is said to mean water, so the name may mean turkey river. Saddle River was also called Peramseapus. Spellings include Pyramus.
Passaic
Passaic River
The Passaic River is a mature surface river, approximately 80 mi long, in northern New Jersey in the United States. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey,...
The county
Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861...
, river
Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861...
and city
Passaic, New Jersey
Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861...
are taken from pahsayèk,
pahsaayeek and pasayak, meaning valley or water that flows through the valley. Spellings include: Pawsaick, Pissawack
Contemporary: Pachsa'jeek
PomptonPompton RiverThe Pompton River is a tributary of the Passaic River, approximately 8 mi long, in northern New Jersey in the United States....
Has been cited by some sources to mean a place where they catch soft fish.Paulus Hook
A tidal islandTidal island
A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands many of them have been sites of religious worship, such as Mont Saint Michel with its...
, called Arresick by the Lenape the site where, in 1630, Michael Pauw
Michael Reyniersz Pauw
Knight Michiel Reiniersz Pauw was a burgermeester of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company...
staked a claim for his attempted patroonship, Pavonia
Pavonia, New Netherland
Pavonia was the first European settlement on the west bank of the North River that was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland in what would become today's Hudson County, New Jersey.-Hudson and the Hackensack:...
. Named after his agent who built a hut and ferry landing there, hoek or hoeck meaning a spit or point.
Variations include Paulus Hoeck, Powles Hoek, Powles Hook
RamapoRamapough Mountain IndiansThe Ramapough Mountain Indians, also known as Ramapo Mountain Indians or the Ramapough Lenape Nation, are a group of approximately 5,000 people living around the Ramapo Mountains of northern New Jersey and southern New York. Their tribal office is located on Stag Hill Road on Houvenkopf Mountain in...
Name for the mountainsRamapo Mountains
The Ramapo Mountains are a forested chain of the Appalachian mountains in northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York in the United States...
and river
Ramapo River
The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 30 mi long, in southern New York and northern New Jersey in the United States.-Course:...
and towns, meaning
underneath the rock, spellings: Ramapough, Ramopock
RaritanRaritan-Places:*Raritan, New Jersey, a borough in Somerset County*Raritan Township, New Jersey, a township in Hunterdon County*Raritan Bay, a bay between the U.S...
The people, riverRaritan River
The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States. Its watershed drains much of the mountainous area of the central part of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay on the Atlantic Ocean.-Description:...
, bay
Raritan Bay
Raritan Bay is a bay located at the southern portion of Lower New York Bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey and is part of the New York Bight. The bay is bounded on the northwest by New York's Staten Island, on the west by Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the south by the Raritan...
, and towns take their name from a derviation of Naraticong meaning river beyond the island (which, considering location, could be Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
).
Some would believe that is comes from Roaton or Raritanghe, a tribe which had come from across the Hudson River
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
and displaced the existing population of Sanhicans.
Alternatively, Raritan is a Dutch pronunciation of wawitan or rarachons meaning forked river or stream overflows.
Sand HoekSandy HookSandy Hook is a barrier spit along the Atlantic coast of New JerseySandy Hook may also refer to:-Places:United States* Sandy Hook , a village in the town of Newtown, Connecticut* Sandy Hook, Kentucky, a city in Elliott County...
Fort Amsterdam
For the historic fort on the island of Saint Martin, see Fort Amsterdam Fort Amsterdam was a fort on the southern tip of Manhattan that was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British rule of New York from...
, Fort Orange, Staten Eylandt
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
, and Lange Eylandt
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
, and Bergen
Bergen, New Netherland
Bergen was a part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, in the area in northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers that would become contemporary Hudson and Bergen Counties...
sailed before entering The Narrows
The Narrows
The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City. It connects the Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic Ocean...
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Schraalenburgh
Built on a barren ridge, literally Barren Hills Two churches still bear the name: South Schraalenburgh ChurchSouth Schraalenburgh Church
South Schraalenburgh Church, also known as South Presbyterian Church, was founded 1723 in Bergenfield, New Jersey as a Dutch reformed church, as an alternative place of worship, as the nearest church was located in Hackensack. The square church was completed in 1728...
and Schraalenburgh North Church
Schraalenburgh North Church
Schraalenburgh North Church, also known as North Church and as The Old North Reformed Church or Old Reformed Church, was founded 1801 as a Dutch Reformed Church, in present day Dumont, New Jersey...
SecaucusSecaucus, New JerseySecaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 16,264. Located within the New Jersey Meadowlands, it is the most suburban of the county's municipalities, though large parts of the town are dedicated to light manufacturing, retail, and...
Sukit meaning black and achgook meaning snake, hence black snakes.Spellings include Sekakes, Sikakes, Sickakus. Contemporary: seke meaning black and xkuk or achgook
meaning snake.
Locally, pronounced "SEE-kaw-cus", with the accent on the first syllable, not the second as often used by non-natives.
Snake Hill
Snake Hill
Snake Hill is an igneous rock intrusion jutting some 150 feet up from the floor of the Meadowlands in Secaucus, New Jersey, USA. It was largely obliterated by quarrying in the 1960s that reduced its height by one-quarter and its base area by four fifths...
, in Secaucus, is a geolologic intrusion
Intrusion
An intrusion is liquid rock that forms under Earth's surface. Magma from under the surface is slowly pushed up from deep within the earth into any cracks or spaces it can find, sometimes pushing existing country rock out of the way, a process that can take millions of years. As the rock slowly...
in the midst of the Meadowlands
New Jersey Meadowlands
New Jersey Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands after the primary river flowing through it, is a general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeast New Jersey in the United States. The Meadowlands are known for being the site of large landfills and decades of...
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SicomacSicomacSicomac is an area in Wyckoff, New Jersey.The first known human inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape Native Americans who lived north of the Raritan River and spoke a Munsee dialect of Algonquian...
Said to mean resting place for the departed or happy hunting ground since this area of WyckoffWyckoff, New Jersey
Wyckoff is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 16,696. As of the 2000 Census, Wyckoff ranked 54th in 100 highest-income places in the United States...
, according to tradition, was the burial place of many Native Americans, possibly including Oratam
Oratam
Oratam was sagamore, or sachem, of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century...
, sagamore of the Hackensack Indians Contemporary schikamik meaning hole or grave or machtschikamikunk meaning a burial place
Staaten EylandtStaten IslandStaten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
To the Lenape, the island was known as Aquehonga, Manacknong and Eghquaons (Jackson, 1995).Named by colonlists for the governing body of the 17th century United Provinces of the Netherlands, The States-General
States-General of the Netherlands
The States-General of the Netherlands is the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The parliament meets in at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The archaic Dutch word "staten" originally related to the feudal classes in which medieval...
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TantaquaOverpeck CreekOverpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately 8 miles long, in Bergen County in northern New Jersey in the United States. The upper creek flows through suburban communities west of New York City...
Overpeck CreekOverpeck Creek
Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately 8 miles long, in Bergen County in northern New Jersey in the United States. The upper creek flows through suburban communities west of New York City...
, site of Hackensack semi-permanent village, for one of the chiefs of the resident Lenape
Lenape
The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...
TappanLake TappanLake Tappan is a reservoir that was formed by the Tappan Dam placed on the Hackensack River in 1967. It straddles the border between River Vale and Old Tappan, New Jersey...
The region radiating from Palisades Interstate Park and its inhabitants as named by New Netherlanders, who spelled it as Tappaen. Site of the "bouwerieBowery
Bowery may refer to:Streets:* The Bowery, a thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City* Bowery Street is a street on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.In popular culture:* Bowery Amphitheatre, a building on the Bowery in New York City...
" Vriessendael
Vriessendael, New Netherland
Vriessendael was a patroonship on the west bank of the Hudson River in New Netherland, the seventeenth century North American colonial province of the Dutch Empire...
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Possibly from Tuphanne meaning cold water
Likely more related to contemporary petapan meaning dawn or petapaniui meaning at the break of dawn, and relates to their kin across the river, the Wappinger,, whose name is derived from the Algonquian people of the east or easterners. (Contemporary: Wapaneu meaning easterly and Wapanke meaning to-morrow.)
Teaneck
Origin and meaning are uncertain, though possibly may mean the woods An alternative is from the DutchDutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
"Tiene Neck" meaning "neck where there are willows" (from the Dutch "tene" meaning willow).
TenaflyTenafly, New JerseyTenafly is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 14,488. Tenafly is an affluent suburb of New York City....
From Dutch ten and vlaieVlaie
Vlaie, Vly or Fly is the Dutch vlaie, meaning a swamp. It also applies to creeks and mountains in the vicinities. The term appears in place names in areas of Dutch influence in North America, such as the Hudson Valley...
, hence Tiene Vly or Ten Swamps given by settlers in 1688.
WatchungWatchung MountainsThe Watchung Mountains are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between 400 ft. and 500 ft. high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States...
The place of mountains from watchtsu, which describes the three ridges west of the Meadowlands.WeehawkenWeehawken, New JerseyWeehawken is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 12,554.-Geography:Weehawken is part of the New York metropolitan area...
Variously interpreted as or rocks that look like rows of trees or at the end of (the Palisades or stream that flowed from them.) and place of gulls.Spelling have included: Awiehawken, Wiehacken, Weehauk, Weehawk, Weehock, Wiceaken,Wihaken, Wyhaken, and Wiehachan
Curiously, Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit, Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. He was the Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633, and he founded the Swedish colony of...
, first governor of New Netherland, sailed to the new world upon a ship called the "Seagull", or in Dutch, Het "Meeuwken" (which bears a strking resemblance)
Vriessendael
A small boweryBowery
Bowery may refer to:Streets:* The Bowery, a thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City* Bowery Street is a street on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.In popular culture:* Bowery Amphitheatre, a building on the Bowery in New York City...
, or homestead established in 1640 at today's Edgewater
Edgewater, New Jersey
Edgewater is a borough located along the Hudson River in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a population of 11,513...
, meaning Vries' Valley, after its founder David Pietersen de Vries
David Pietersen de Vries
Captain David Pieterszoon de Vries was a Dutch navigator from Hoorn, Holland.In 1617 de Vries went on a whaling voyage to Jan Mayen. In 1620 he sailed to Newfoundland and sold the dried fish in Italy. In Toulon he joined Charles, Duke of Guise. In 1624 he went to Canada again, still in French...
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Pre-American RevolutionAmerican RevolutionThe American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...
Reformed Congregations in the Dutch Belt
Treaty of Westminster (1674)
The Treaty of Westminster of 1674 was the peace treaty that ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Signed by the Netherlands and England, it provided for the return of the colony of New Netherland to England and renewed the Treaty of Breda of 1667...
) that settlers to New Netherland
New Netherland
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...
and their descendents spread across the region and established many of the towns and cities which exist today. The Dutch Reformed Church
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...
played an important role this expansion Following the course of the Hudson River
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
in the north via New York Harbor
New York Harbor
New York Harbor refers to the waterways of the estuary near the mouth of the Hudson River that empty into New York Bay. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Although the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental,...
to the Raritan River
Raritan River
The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States. Its watershed drains much of the mountainous area of the central part of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay on the Atlantic Ocean.-Description:...
in the south, settlement and population grew along what George Washington
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
called the "Dutch Belt".. The American classis secured a charter in 1766 for Queens College (now Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
), where the appointment in 1784 of John Henry Livingston
John Henry Livingston
The Reverend John Henry Livingston was the fourth President of Queen's College serving from 1810 until his death in 1825.-Biography:...
as professor of theology marked the beginning of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
New Brunswick Theological Seminary is a professional and graduate school founded in 1784, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to educate ministers for the congregations of the Reformed Church in America...
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| Year | Congregation |
|---|---|
| 1660 | Bergen Old Bergen Church The Old Bergen Church is located in Jersey City, New Jersey and is the oldest continuous congregation in New Jersey dating back to 1660. The congregation embraces a combination of Reformed Church in America and Presbyterianism.... at Bergen Square Bergen Square Bergen Square, at the intersection of Bergen Avenue and Academy Street in Jersey City, is in the southwestern part of the much larger Journal Square district... , now Jersey City Jersey City, New Jersey Jersey City is the seat of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.Part of the New York metropolitan area, Jersey City lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay across from Lower Manhattan and the Hackensack River and Newark Bay... |
| 1693 | Acquackanonk in Passaic Passaic, New Jersey Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861... |
| 1694 | Tappan Tappan, New York Tappan is a hamlet in the Town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Old Tappan, New Jersey; east of Nauraushaun and Pearl River; south of Blauvelt and west of Palisades and Sparkill... |
| 1696 | Hackensack First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack First Dutch Reformed Church, also known as the "Old Church on the Green" is located in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, where it sits in the churchyard of the church by the same name, the current building being constructed in 1791. The east wall of the building is of particular interest... |
| 1699 | Brick Old Brick Reformed Church The Old Brick Reformed Church began in Marlboro, New Jersey in 1699. It is a member of the Reformed Church in America, the oldest Protestant denomination in America.- External links :*... in Marlboro |
| 1700 | Second River Belleville, New Jersey Belleville is a Township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 35,926.-History:... in Belleville Belleville, New Jersey Belleville is a Township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 35,926.-History:... |
| 1703 | Six Mile Run Six Mile Run, New Jersey Six Mile Run has been used to name several different but related features in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.-Historic district on the National Register of Historic Places :... |
| 1710 | Ponds Oakland, New Jersey Oakland is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 12,754.Oakland was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1902, from portions of Franklin Township.-History:The Van Allen House... in Oakland Oakland, New Jersey Oakland is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 12,754.Oakland was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1902, from portions of Franklin Township.-History:The Van Allen House... |
| 1717 | New Brunswick New Brunswick, New Jersey New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of... |
| 1717 | Schaghticoke |
| 1720 | Fairfield Fairfield, New Jersey Fairfield is a township in far northwestern Essex County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 7,466. Fairfield is the least densely populated town in Essex County.... |
| 1724 | Schraalenburgh South Schraalenburgh Church South Schraalenburgh Church, also known as South Presbyterian Church, was founded 1723 in Bergenfield, New Jersey as a Dutch reformed church, as an alternative place of worship, as the nearest church was located in Hackensack. The square church was completed in 1728... now Dumont Dumont, New Jersey Dumont is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The population was 17,479 at the 2010 Census.Dumont was formed on July 20, 1894, as the Borough of Schraalenburgh from portions of Harrington Township and Palisades Township, at the height of the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping... |
| 1725 | Paramus Ridgewood, New Jersey Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 24,958. Ridgewood is an affluent suburban bedroom community of New York City, located approximately northwest of Midtown Manhattan.The Village of Ridgewood was... |
| 1727 | Harlingen Harlingen, New Jersey Harlingen is an unincorporated area within the Belle Mead section of Montgomery Township, New Jersey. It is adjacent to the historical areas of Dutchtown, New Jersey and Bridgepoint, New Jersey. Harlingen Road and U.S. Route 206, are in Harlingen. The Harlingen Dutch Reformed Church on Route 206 is... |
| 1736 | Pompton Plains |
| 1740 | Ramapo Ramapo Ramapo is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and the adjoining area of Rockland County in southeastern New York State.-In New Jersey:... in Mahwah Mahwah, New Jersey Mahwah is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 25,890. The name Mahwah is derived from the Lenni Lenape word "mawewi" which means "Meeting Place" or "Place Where Paths Meet".The area that is now Mahwah was... |
| 1755 | Totowa Totowa, New Jersey Totowa is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the borough population was 9,892.Totowa was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 15, 1898, from portions of the now-defunct Manchester Township and Wayne... in Paterson Paterson, New Jersey Paterson is a city serving as the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, rendering it New Jersey's third largest city and one of the largest cities in the New York City Metropolitan Area, despite a decrease of 3,023... |
| 1756 | Montivlle |
| 1770 | Ridgefield Ridgefield, New Jersey There were 4,020 households out of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.7% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.2% were non-families. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.8% had someone... in the English Neighborhood |
See also
- Toponymy of New NetherlandToponymy of New NetherlandNieuw-Nederland, or New Netherland, was the seventeenth century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod. Settled areas are now part of the...
- Etymologies of place names in Hudson County, New JerseyEtymologies of place names in Hudson County, New JerseyThis is a list of locales in Hudson County, New Jersey categorized by origin of their name.- Municipalities :#Bayonne #Jersey City #Hoboken #Union City #West New York #Guttenberg #Secaucus #Kearny...
- New Netherland settlementsNew Netherland settlementsNew Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod. Settled areas are now part of...
- North JerseyNorth JerseyNorth Jersey is a colloquial term, with no precise consensus definition, for the northern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. A straightforward, noncolloquial term for the region is northern New Jersey.- Two-portion approaches :...
- Gateway RegionGateway RegionThe Gateway Region is located in the northeastern part of State of New Jersey in the United States of America. The area encompasses Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union and Middlesex counties...