Halfway Brook

Memoirs from Eldred, New York

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October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Kill
Kill or kille is Dutch for a creek as in Wallkill or Beaver Kill.
Callicoon Creek
Dutch hunters named the area Kollikoonkill because there were so many Kollikoon or wild turkeys.
Delaware
In 1610, as Captain Samuel Argall named both the Lenape River, and the people living on its banks, the Delaware in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron [...]

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