Canagagigue Creek Traditional Cache
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Pronounced "can-a-ga-jig"
This creek runs through one of the many parks situated in Elmira. Bolender Park can be enjoyed by all ages in any season. Picnics in the summer, a playground for kids, easter egg hunts, and toboganning are a few of the activities that may be seen here. There are 2 parking lots to choose from and can be seen from the roadway. Park closed 11pm-6am
Kinagaghig Creek (1806)
How the creek in Woolwich Township got its name...
This creek was so named by George and Benjamin Eby after Conococheague creek, a little creek which drains Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and flows through Washington county, Maryland, to the Potomac [the area where from many Pennsylvania-Germans travelled by foot and Conestoga wagons.] One historian says the name Conococheague is from the Delaware Indian language and signifies “long indeed, very long indeed,” while another says the original word also refers to the winding course of the stream. Eby spelled the name as Kinacachic; another as Canagaguige and others as Kanakijige, Cinacaghic. On an early map of Woolwich Township in Belden’s Atlas, it appears as Kinacaghig. There are many more early spellings, as one can imagine !
[Taken from the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society 1927 ,pg 375. WHS Reports are at Kitchener Public Library, Grace Schmidt Room of Local History.]
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