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Moordener Kill

Moordener Kill

River in the United States of America

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.

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Moordener Kill translates to "Murderer Creek", with moordenaar being the modern Dutch word for "murderer" and kill for "creek".[3] The name comes from the creek having been the site of an ambush of Dutch settlers by Native Americans in 1643 in which seven men and two women were killed.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moordener Kill
  2. [2]
    U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 3, 2011
  3. [3]
    University of the State of New York Bulletin. University of the State of New York. 1914. p. 53.
  4. [4]
    "Moordener Kill". Retrieved 2010-10-22.



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