Kinderhook Creek
| Kinderhook Creek East Creek, Kinderhook Brook | |
|---|---|
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Hancock, Taconic Mountains, Massachusetts |
| • coordinates | 42°34′38″N 73°17′52″W / 42.57722°N 73.29778°W |
| Mouth | Stockport Creek |
• location | Stockport, New York |
• coordinates | 42°19′03″N 73°44′43″W / 42.31750°N 73.74528°W |
• elevation | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Length | 49 mi (79 km) |
Kinderhook CreekKinderhook and Stuyvesant to its mouth at Stockport Creek in the town of Stockport.
Kinderhook Creek has a drainage area of over 329 square miles (850 km2).[3]
History
Kinderhook Creek was known as Pasanthkack by the
Mahican Native Americans.[4] Prior to 1667 it was known as "Major Abram's (Staats) Kill" and "Third Falls." In 1823 it was called Stuyvesant Falls (now referring to a village on the creek) and after 1845 "Kinderhook Creek".[5]
The name "Kinderhook" has its root in the landing of Henry Hudson in the area around present-day Stuyvesant, where he was greeted by Native Americans with many children. With the Dutch Kinder meaning "child" and Hoeck meaning "bend" or "hook" [in the river], the name literally means "bend in the river where the children are". A figurative translation is "children's point".[6]
The area around Kinderhook Creek was called Machackoesk by the Native American Mahican Tribe.[7]
Tributaries
- Valatie Kill - Native American, Tsat-sa-was-sa or Tack-a-was-ick creek (and lake) are placed in the town of Nassau by the French. The name may refer to a stone mortar.
- Kline Kill - Native American Mahican name Scom-pa-muck or Squampanoc[8]
- Indian Creek
- Punsit Creek
- Stony Kill
- Frisbee Creek
- Queechy Lake Brook - Mahican name Quis-sich-kook, unknown meaning[8]
- Green Brook
- Tackawasick Creek
- Cranberry Vly
- Cranberry
- Black Brook
- Huff Brook
- Hollow Brook
- Wyomanock Creek - Native American name for the creek. Also known as Lebanon Creek.
- South Branch Wyomanock Creek
- Berry Pond Creek
- Red Oak Brook
- Taplin Bourn (from Middle English bourne, a brook)
- Black River
- Roaring Brook
- East Brook
- West Brook
- Bentley Brook
- Whitman Brook
- Jones Brook
- Rathburn Brook
See also
- List of rivers of New York
- List of rivers of Massachusetts
- Kinderhook (town), New York
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kinderhook Creek
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 3, 2011
- ^ USGS 01361000 KINDERHOOK CREEK AT ROSSMAN NY
- ^ The Mohicans and their land, 1609–1730, p.299; Shirley Wiltse Dunn, Purple Mountain Press, 1994
- ^ List of New York State Historic Markers in Columbia County, New York Marker number 130 "Major Abram's Kill"
- ^ University of the State of New York Bulletin. University of the State of New York. 1914. p. 52.
- ^ History of the Indian tribes of Hudson's River: their origin, manners and customs..., By Edward Manning Ruttenberg, page 370
- ^ a b Aboriginal place names of New York, by William Martin Beauchamp, page 48
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