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Indian names of Localities

Of our Indian predecessors in this region the only trace remaining is in a few corrupted names of localities:

HACKENSACK, FROM ACKENSACK
LOW land.

SECAUCUS, FROM. SISKAKES OR SIKAKES
the place where the snake hides. The Indian name for Snake Hill, now transferred to the upland between Pinhorne Creek and Hackensack river.

WEEHAWKEN, FROM AWIEHAKEN
at the end of (the Palisades.)

HOBOKEN, FROM HOPOGHAN HACKINGH
the land of the tobacco pipe. At this point they procured the stone from which they carved their pipes.. It was a piece of upland called by the Indians, an island with salt marsh lying between it and the Hill.

HARSIMUS, FROM AHASIMUS
the meaning is now lost; it was another bit of upland lying south of Hopoghan.

COMMUNIPAW, FROM GEMOENEPA
the meaning is not known.

NAVESINK
a good fishing place.

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