Moordener Kill

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Moordener Kill
Stream
Country United States
State New York
County Rensselaer
Towns Sand Lake, Schodack
Source
 - location Sand Lake, New York
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Mouth Hudson River
 - location Castleton-on-Hudson, New York
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The Moordener Kill[1] is a 15.5-mile-long (24.9 km)[2] tributary to the Hudson River that flows through southwestern Rensselaer County, New York, in the United States.

Moordener Kill translates to "Murderer Creek", with moordenaar being the modern Dutch word for "murderer" and kill for "creek". The name comes from the fact that the creek was the site of an ambush of Dutch settlers by Native Americans in 1643 in which 7 men and 2 women were killed.[3]

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moordener Kill
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 3, 2011
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