Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map
readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named
Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated.
Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five
hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the
five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of
the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the
region's Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep
knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding,
place names.Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts.
The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian
place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and
state. Each entry includes the name's language of origin, if known,
and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest
known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance
on maps, and the name's current status. The book's second section
presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be
of Indian origin, are "imports, inventions, invocations, or
impostors." Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet
has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among home-grown
colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries.
Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion
of the region's naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps,
this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers
who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or
visit.
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